Movies by Ruth Gordon
As part of the cast:
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The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
Cast: Heywood Hale Broun, Margalo Gillmore, Ruth Gordon …
Directed by: Aviva Slesin
From 1919 to 1929, a legendary group of writers, critics, editors and humorists met daily for lunch at New York's Algonquin Hotel. This Oscar-winning documentary explores the urbane…
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My Bodyguard (1980)
Cast: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon …
Directed by: Tony Bill
Tormented by a gang of bullies -- led by Matt Dillon, in one of his first film roles -- sheltered new kid Clifford (Chris Makepeace) seeks protection from older student Linderman (Adam…
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Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon …
Directed by: Buddy Van Horn
Tough guy Philo (Clint Eastwood) and his orangutan sidekick, Clyde, fight crooks, stupid cops and bikers in this hilarious sequel to 1978's Every Which Way But Loose. After taking part…
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Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Beverly D'Angelo, Geoffrey Lewis …
Directed by: James Fargo
Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is an easygoing trucker and a great fist-fighter. With two friends -- Orville, who promotes prizefights for him, and Clyde, the orangutan he won on a bet -- he…
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The Big Bus (1976)
Cast: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck …
Directed by: James Frawley
A wonderful spoof of disaster films, The Big Bus is about the world's first nuclear-powered bus -- a whopping 75-ton monster on 32 enormous wheels -- and its maiden journey all the way…
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles …
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Death-obsessed teen Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is being hassled by his domineering mother (Vivian Pickles) to play the dating game, but he'd much rather attend funerals, which is where he…
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Where's Poppa? (1970)
Cast: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Trish Van Devere …
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Dutiful Gordon (George Segal) promised to never put his mother (Ruth Gordon) in a home -- but that was before she was ruining his love life. Now, out of options and with the girl of his…
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Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
Cast: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth …
When the feisty Alice Dimmock (Ruth Gordon) takes a job working for the widowed Claire Marrable (Oscar winner Geraldine Page), she can't help but be suspicious. After all, she's…
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Cast: Ralph Bellamy, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), the young wife of a struggling actor (John Cassavetes), is thrilled to find out she's pregnant. But the larger her belly grows, the more certain she…
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Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright …
Directed by: George Axelrod
A horny high school student (Roddy McDowall) puts his telepathic powers to good use when he employs them to romance a stuck-up co-ed (Tuesday Weld). What's this Prince Charming's…
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Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
When teenager Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) rises from beach-dwelling obscurity to Hollywood celebrity overnight, she quickly discovers that the glitter of 1930s-era Tinseltown hides a dark…
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale …
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
You can't keep good men down -- especially if those men are Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey portraying merchant marines in a World War II propaganda flick. When a ship transporting…
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Edge of Darkness (1943)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Helmut Dantine, Ann Sheridan …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
In a Norwegian fishing village during World War II, locals anxiously debate whether to take up arms against their Nazi occupiers. Suspecting that something's amiss, commandant Koenig…