Biography: James Whitmore |
Leading American character actor James Whitmore specialized in giving tour de force solo performances on stage, screen, and television, notably with his Oscar-nominated solo turn as President Truman in Give 'Em Hell Harry! Whitmore is short and... more
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Cast: Kim Hunter Ossie Davis
Length: 94min
Screenwriter Arne Olsen makes his directorial debut in this comedy that explores the real meaning of youth and age. Owen Rinard (Eric McCormack) is the thirty-something manager of a Canadian retirement home who watches over his charges with an eagle...
Tags: Animal Picture Fantasy Family Coming-of-Age
Length: min
Vacationing on Seven Bay Island in the summer of her 16th year, budding poet Victoria "Vicky" Austin (Mischa Barton) is faced with the approaching death of her beloved grandfather (James Whitmore), who is suffering from leukemia. In hopes of briefly...
Cast: José Ferrer
Tags: Adventure
Length: 91min
An aging pair of long-time friends look forward to their weekly visit in which they whittle away the hours spinning fantastic yarns about the many adventures they never had. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Faye Dunaway Frank Sinatra Bruce Willis David Dukes
Tags: Action Police Detective Film
Length: 112min
The First Deadly Sin was Frank Sinatra's final starring movie vehicle. Based on a novel by Lawrence Sanders, it casts Sinatra as Edward Delaney, a big-city detective on the verge of retirement. Beset with profound personal problems--including a...
Cast: Harry Belafonte Ray Walston James Whitmore Kate Nelligan Robert Prosky
Tags: Drama Political Drama Courtroom Drama
Length: 120min
In this courtroom drama set in the near future, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently overturned the Roe vs. Wade decision and thrown the issue of abortion rights back to the individual states. Alabama has subsequently outlawed abortion on demand and...
Cast: Ingmar Bergman Sven Nykvist David Carradine Liv Ullmann Gert Fröbe
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama Political Drama
Length: 120min
The Serpent's Egg, or Das Schlangenei is director Ingmar Bergman's second English language production (The Touch was his first). It is, however, his first completely non-Swedish production, made after his voluntary self-exile from Sweden over taxation...
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 86min
Will Vinton, the stop-motion animation whiz who brought us The California Raisins, is the principal creative force behind The Adventures of Mark Twain. A clay-model Twain, voiced by James Whitmore, sets out in a hot-air balloon to find Halley's Comet....
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller Peter Hyams
Tags: Horror Creature Film
Length: 110min
A mythological creature stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser in this cheap sci-fi horror genre knock-off of Alien (1979). Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural...
Tags: Satire Religious Comedy Comedy
Length: 152min
Glory! Glory! is a "roman a clef" of the Evangelism industry, with all the names fictionalized but with all characters easily recognizable to anyone who's ever watched a religious UHF channel. Barry Morse portrays a radio preacher whose operation is...
Tags: Comedy Drama Americana Biopic
Length: 102min
Give 'Em Hell, Harry! is a filmed version of James J. Whitmore's triumphant performance as Harry Truman in a one-man play. Over the course of the film, Whitmore's Truman recalls many of his personal and professional triumphs and tragedies, uncannily...
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