Movies by Ed Begley
As part of the cast:
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Blue Collar (1978)
Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
When Detroit autoworkers Jerry (Harvey Keitel), Smokey (Yaphet Kotto) and Zeke (Richard Pryor in a rare and brilliant dramatic performance) find bills piling up and pressures bearing down,…
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Dunwich Horror (1970)
Cast: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Daniel Haller
In a rare leading role, noted character actor Dean Stockwell plays Wilbur, a disturbed young warlock who wants to open a demonic portal, in this film based on the classic H.P. Lovecraft…
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Hang 'Em High (1968)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Ted Post
Jed survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with his…
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Fire Creek (1968)
Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens …
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
When a gang of vicious outlaws torments the residents of Firecreek, only Johnny Cobb (James Stewart) is willing to don the sheriff's star and save the beleaguered townspeople from harm.…
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Cast: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Ken Russell
In this final installment of the Harry Palmer spy trilogy, Palmer (Michael Caine) has left the espionage game to work as a private eye but is pressed back into service when an American…
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Warning Shot (1967)
Cast: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Keenan Wynn …
Directed by: Buzz Kulik
On a hazy night, police sergeant Tom Valens (David Janssen) witnesses a man fleeing a house. It seems he's the burglar the cops have been warned about, and Valens decides to give chase.…
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Die, Monster, Die! / The Dunwich Horror: Double Feature (1965)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Sandra Dee …
Directed by: Daniel Haller
Horror icon Boris Karloff stars as a scientist who's simply mad over mutation in the first of two spine-tinglers based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft. In Die, Monster, Die, a man discovers…
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Charles Walters
After surviving a flood as an infant 16 years ago, the buoyant Molly Brown (Debbie Reynolds) sets out to find her way in life. She assures a saloon owner she can sing and play piano in his…
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Cast: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight …
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Directed by Richard Brooks, this atmospheric drama stars Paul Newman as handsome cad Chance Wayne, who returns to his Southern hometown with faded movie star Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine…
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Robert Wise
David Burke, a former cop and ex-con, convinces bigoted Southerner Earl Slater to rob a bank with him. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram, a gambling addict hopelessly in debt. But when Slater…
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12 Angry Men (1957)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means death, a jury of 12 men (including Jack Warden and Jack Klugman) must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his…
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Patterns (1956)
Cast: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Fielder Cook
Master storyteller Rod Serling's drama delves into the mind of an ordinary man caught in the middle of a corporate power-play. Small-town engineer Fred Staples (Van Heflin) accepts an…
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On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond …
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
A jaded, bitter detective (Robert Ryan) is on the hunt for a killer, following a trail from the grimy city streets to the snow-blanketed countryside. In an odd psychological twist, he meets…
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The Turning Point (1952)
Cast: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Is John Conroy's police officer father, Matt (Tom Tully), on the wrong side of the law? John, a prosecutor trying to rid his town of crime, hopes not, but newsman Jerry McKibbon (William…
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You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Cast: Charles Bronson, Gary Cooper, Jane Greer …
Directed by: Henry Hathaway, Lewis Seiler
Based on a World War II-era magazine article that originally ran in &NFi;The New Yorker&NFi_;, this slapstick comedy stars Gary Cooper as first-time Navy commander Lt. John Harkness, a…
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Dark City (1950)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Bad luck begets bad blood when desperate GI Arthur Winant (Don DeFore) gets taken by grifter Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) and his cronies and hangs himself, launching unseen brother Sidney…
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Wyoming Mail (1950)
Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva …
Directed by: Reginald Le Borg
Outlaws regularly attack the new cross-country mail train, and it looks like an inside job. Going undercover, Steve Davis uses his expertise as both an ex-Army intelligence officer and a…
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Saddle Tramp (1950)
Cast: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell …
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Chuck Connor's forged a life free of family ties -- that is, until his widower friend dies, leaving four children without anyone to care for them. He reluctantly takes on the role of…
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Tulsa (1949)
Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz …
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Set at the start of the Oklahoma oil boom, this epic features a commanding performance by Susan Hayward as Cherokee Lansing, a woman out to avenge her father's murder by a rival oil…
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards …
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
In this gripping thriller, Barbara Stanwyck stars as Leona Stevenson, a young, beautiful, rich hypochondriac who rarely gets out of bed. When she dials a wrong number by mistake, she…
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The Street with No Name (1948)
Cast: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan …
Directed by: William Keighley
A furious crime boss seeks revenge on an undercover FBI agent in this noir crime drama. Assigned to infiltrate a gang, Agent Cordell (Mark Stevens) gains the confidence of gang leader Stiles…
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Boomerang! (1947)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
When a man of the cloth is shot to death on the street, pressure mounts on District Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to put drifter John Waldron (Arthur Kennedy) on trial for the killing.…