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Ed Begley - filmography


  • Renaissance Man on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Danny De Vito,  Gregory Hines,  James Remar
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When advertising executive Bill Rago gets the chop he soon realises that he can't do anything else and is talked into teaching English grammar to a bunch of army recruits. However, the army wants him to be disciplined and do everything at the double. His pupils just want him to leave them alone...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 757 members
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  • This Is Spinal Tap on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Andrew Divoff,  Rob Reiner,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 21,747 members
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  • The Dunwich Horror (1970)
    Starring: Sandra Dee,  Dean Stockwell,  Ed Begley
    Director: Daniel Haller
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft story. Stockwell's interest in a rare book called "The Necronomicon" soon requires more than an attentive reading and begins to impinge on his relationship with girlfriend Dee. Begley, is the professor who puts a stop to all this evil.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 23 members
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  • Road to Salina (1969)
    Starring: Mimsy Farmer,  Robert Walker Jr.,  Rita Hayworth
    Director: Georges Lautner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Jonas (Walker Jr) is on the road to Salina. He stops at a gas station/restaurant and its owner, Mara (Hayworth), is struck by his resemblance to her dead son, Rocky (Porel). He decides to stay on and meets Mara's friend Warren (Begley) and Rocky's sister Billie (Famer), but dark facts are to be ..read more »
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  • Hang 'Em High on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Ed Begley,  Inger Stevens
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The first spaghetti western made in America (sans Leone) and Eastwood's first star vehicle made outside Europe. Eastwood's innocent cowboy miraculously survives his own hanging and then treks across the frontier to bring his hangmen to justice. Highly entertaining, featuring in small parts Dern, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,532 members
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  • Twelve Angry Men on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Lee J. Cobb,  Ed Begley
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In the definitive version of Reginald Rose's timeless script, an all-white jury decides the fate of a youth accused of murder. This tightly constructed searing exposé of prejudice in the American legal system stars Henry Fonda and a pantheon of great character actors.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 18,849 members
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  • Patterns on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Van Heflin,  Everett Sloane,  Ed Begley
    Director: Fielder Cook
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "The Twilight Zone" was still three years away when Rod Serling wrote "Patterns", the prescient tale of Machiavellian goings-on at a large corporation. Serling's later masterpieces harken back to many of these plot elements, including a well placed twist at the end.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 24 members
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Ed Begley facts

5 most recent films

Renaissance Man - 3.0 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - 3.5 stars
Cat People - 2.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Twelve Angry Men - 4.0 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - 3.5 stars
Hang 'Em High - 3.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

It Happens Every Spring - 0.5 stars
Road to Salina - 1.0 stars
The Dunwich Horror - 2.5 stars
Patterns - 3.0 stars
Tulsa - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed Begley Jr. - 5 times - show films
Christopher Guest - 4 times - show films
June Chadwick - 4 times - show films
Michael McKean - 4 times - show films
Andrew Divoff - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rob Reiner - 4 times - show films
Charles Walters - 1 times - show films
Daniel Haller - 1 times - show films
Georges Lautner - 1 times - show films
Richard A. Colla - 1 times - show films