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  • Twelve Angry Men
  • Twelve Angry Men review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars 12 Angry Men 19 March 2007
    ...rom a grounded Balsam, Jack Warden (who just wants to go to his baseball game), Ed Begley (whose appallingly racist monologue is one of the most memorable moments in the...   Read customer review

Ed Begley - filmography


  • Renaissance Man (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...
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 794 members
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  • This Is Spinal Tap - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: June Chadwick,  Rob Reiner,  Michael McKean
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,164 member
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 24,672 members
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  • Cat People on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Malcolm McDowell,  John Heard
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After Irena (Nastassia Kinski), a young woman with a mysterious past, is reunited with her brother Paul (Malcom MacDowell), a series of bizarre events is set into motion. When Irena discovers that her sexuality is intimately linked with that of her brother's--as well as with a strange human-feline ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 984 members
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  • Battlestar Galactica on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Hatch,  Dirk Benedict,  Lorne Greene
    Director: Richard A. Colla
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A futuristic aircraft carrier careers through a distant starfield, followed by a convoy of bizarre space vehicles, all fleeing the destruction of the human race. They are all bound for a sister colony on a planet far away...A planet called Earth...
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,454 member
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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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 30 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 4 members
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  • Hang 'Em High on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Ed Begley,  Inger Stevens,  Pat Hingle
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,117 members
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  • Billion Dollar Brain on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Karl Malden,  Oscar Homolka
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A second motion picture outing for anti-hero spy Harry Palmer who, since his work deciphering the riddles surrounding 'The Ipcress File' has decided to break away from the Secret Service and make a living as a private investigator. This time he is sucked into a web of conspiracy involving General ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,263 member
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  • Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Geraldine Page,  Shirley Knight
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drifter Chance Wayne (Paul Newman) returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 8 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.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 23,242 members
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  • Patterns (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.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 27 members
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  • Tulsa on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Susan Hayward,  Robert Preston,  Ed Begley
    Director: Stuart Heisler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In the midst of the oil boom with what began as a crusade to fight developers takes a turn as the daughter of a cattle owner hits a rich vein of rich oil and builds the oil empire that threatens the livelihoods of long-established cattle ranchers and their way of life. She must decide between her ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 80 members
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Ed Begley facts

5 most recent films

Renaissance Man - 3.0 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - Blu-ray - 3.5 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 - 3.5 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 - 1.0 stars
Road to Salina - 2.0 stars
The Dunwich Horror - 2.5 stars
Patterns - 3.0 stars
Sweet Bird of Youth - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed Begley Jr. - 7 times - show films
Christopher Guest - 4 times - show films
June Chadwick - 4 times - show films
Andrew Divoff - 4 times - show films
Michael McKean - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rob Reiner - 4 times - show films
Stuart Heisler - 1 times - show films
Daniel Haller - 1 times - show films
Georges Lautner - 1 times - show films
Richard Brooks - 1 times - show films