Biography: Ed Flanders |
American actor Ed Flanders is probably best known for his award-winning role of Dr. Donald Westphall on the medical drama St. Elsewhere. He started acting on-stage in his home state of Minnesota before moving on to Broadway in the 1960s. He worked... more
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Cast: James Woods Lee Grant Joseph Bologna
Tags: Political Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 112min
Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Cohn lies in a New York hospital dying of AIDS....
Cast: George C. Scott
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 110min
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, directed this intriguing, deliberately-paced thriller based on his novel -Legion. Ignoring the events of John Boorman's disappointing Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), the film moves ahead 15 years from the...
Cast: Robert Duvall Robert De Niro Burgess Meredith Charles Durning
Tags: Psychological Drama Police Detective Film Religious Drama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 108min
Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators...
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Tags: Crime Comedy Biopic Docudrama
Length: 100min
The mysterious 1971 hijacking of an airliner by a bold thief who parachuted into legend over the Pacific Northwest became fodder for this action comedy that's mostly speculative. Treat Williams stars as Jim Meade, an ambitious former Army man who...
The Ninth Configuration (1979)
Cast: Stacy Keach
Tags: Drama Psychological Thriller Gothic Film
Length: 115min
William Peter Blatty, author of -The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's The Ninth Configuration. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith
Tags: War Drama War Drama Biopic Docudrama
Length: 128min
Star Gregory Peck went into MacArthur disliking the title character that he was slated to play, but emerged from the experience with a deeper understanding and respect for this complex historical figure. The film is framed in flashback, with an...
Length: 102min
Journalist William Allen White, the Pulitzer Prize-winning sage of Emporia, Kansas, lost his beloved 16-year-old daughter Mary when she was killed in a horseback-riding accident in 1921. The grieving White then wrote a newspaper editorial celebrating...
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama
Length: 119min
Taking over the already profitable Hughes tool company from his deceased father, the teenaged Howard Hughes (Tommy Lee Jones) turns the operation into a billion-dollar business. Along the way, he dabbles in film production, romancing such Hollywood...
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)
Cast: Gregory Peck Ed Flanders
Tags: Docudrama Courtroom Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 85min
Father Daniel Berrigan, at the height of the Vietnam War, was arrested along with eight other protesters (including his brother Philip) in Baltimore in 1968, for burning draft records. Berrigan later penned a didactic play, based upon the incident,...
Cast: Ed Asner Edgar Buchanan Glenn Ford Henry Mancini Richard Donner
Tags: Mystery
Length: 103min
Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself...
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