Biography: Dean Jones |
After a four-year hitch with the Air Corps, Dean Jones worked the nightclub and cabaret circuit as a blues singer. It was, however, as an actor that Jones was signed to an MGM contract in 1956; he spent the next four years essaying showy supporting... more
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Cast: Christina Ricci Peter Boyle Dyan Cannon
Tags: Animal Picture Comedy Family Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 89min
The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel -Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and...
Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (2008)
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Family
Length: min
The first feature film based on author Lois Leppard's Mandie books, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel begins in the year 1899, when a young girl named Mandie escapes to a mansion where she will discover the secrets of her past, while simultaneously...
Cast: Gregory Peck Danny DeVito Norman Jewison Piper Laurie
Tags: Satire Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 101min
Norman Jewison directed Alvin Sargent's adaptation of Jerry Sterner's off-Broadway satire of the excess of the '80s, with Danny DeVito as corporate raider Lawrence Garfield -- or, as he is better known, Larry the Liquidator. Larry spends his waking...
Cast: Stanley Tucci
Tags: Comedy Family Family-Oriented Comedy Animal Picture
Length: 89min
Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive...
Cast: Dana Andrews Dean Jones
Tags: Biopic Drama Religious Drama
Length: 110min
President Richard Nixon's legal counsellor Charles Colson was tried for several criminal charges relating to the Watergate cover-up, eventually spending some time in prison. This film explores Colson's personal crisis, and the religious convictions...
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Cast: Don Knotts
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Family Comedy Adventure Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 105min
It's love at first spark plug for Herbie, the spunky Disney Volkswagen, in Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo. Herbie reunites with Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), his driver from the original The Love Bug, as they participate in the annual Monte Carlo road rally....
Cast: Keenan Wynn
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Slapstick
Length: 91min
Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a...
Cast: Angie Dickinson
Tags: Drama Docudrama Disaster Film
Length: 89min
The terrible crash of Delta Airlines Flight 191 provides the basis of this made-for-TV drama-in-real life. The disaster occurred at Dallas in 1985 and during that fateful night many of the ordinary passengers, crew, and rescue workers became true...
Cast: Norman Tokar
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 99min
In this light-weight Disney family fare, Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter, who -- along with his wife Sue (Nancy Olsen) and his two kids, Chris (Kathleen Cody) and Richard (Johnny Whitaker) -- decides to leave the New York City rat-race for the clean...
Tags: Family Comedy Family-Oriented Adventure Family-Oriented Comedy Animal Picture
Length: 91min
In 1,000,000 Duck, the titular duck is exposed to radiation and begins laying golden eggs, which brings it under the scrutiny of the treasury department, the FBI, and a gang of comic-opera crooks. The cast includes Disney perennials Dean Jones and Joe...
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