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  • 12 Angry Men
  • 12 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: Stacey,  Gregory Hines,  James Remar
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Danny De Vito stars as divorced, out-of-work ad executive Bill Drago who is offered a six-week placement in the army teaching basic English comphrehension to eight no-hopers at a local military base. Drago arrives and finds he has to sleep next to the training ground where the soldiers begin ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 819 members
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  • This Is Spinal Tap - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Christopher Guest,  Ed Begley
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,343 member
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  • This Is Spinal Tap on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Christopher Guest,  Ed Begley
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 25,416 members
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  • Cat People on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Ed Begley,  Malcolm McDowell,  Ed Begley Jr.
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Irena (Nastassja Kinski) is a beautiful young woman who shares a terrifying secret with her brother (Malcolm McDowell) - when sexually aroused she transforms into a panther. When Irena falls in love for the first time, her secret threatens the relationship. Can she bring herself to tell her new-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,073 member
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  • Battlestar Galactica on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Ed Begley,  Ed Begley Jr.,  Lorne Greene
    Director: Richard A. Colla
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Decimated by a Cylon attack, the last surviving members of the human race escape their ruined planet and head for sanctuary on the planet Earth. Travelling through space on the Battlestar Galactica, the survivors make a detour to the planet Carillon in order to stock up on supplies. But Carillon, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,547 member
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  • The Dunwich Horror (1970)
    Starring: Sandra Dee,  Dean Stockwell,  Dean Stockwell
    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 32 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: Alan Hale Jr,  Clint Eastwood,  Inger Stevens
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    It is Oklahoma, 1873. Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is mistaken for a murderous rustler and taken to be hanged by corrupt lawman Captain Wilson (Ed Begley). However, he survives the hanging and is rescued by a local sheriff. Cooper vows revenge upon Wilson and takes a job as a deputy sheriff, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,273 members
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  • Hang 'Em High - Blu-ray (1968)
    Starring: Alan Hale Jr,  Clint Eastwood,  Inger Stevens
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    It is Oklahoma, 1873. Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is mistaken for a murderous rustler and taken to be hanged by corrupt lawman Captain Wilson (Ed Begley). However, he survives the hanging and is rescued by a local sheriff. Cooper vows revenge upon Wilson and takes a job as a deputy sheriff, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 2 members
    Due for release on 2nd August 2013
  • Billion Dollar Brain on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Ed Begley,  Francoise Dorleac,  Oscar Homolka
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Directed by Ken Russell, this film is the last in a trio of espionage thrillers based on the novels by Len Deighton (it was preceded by 'The Ipcress File' and 'Funeral in Berlin') starring Michael Caine as antihero Harry Palmer, who, having left the Secret Service, is now working as a private eye. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,373 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 67% from 12 members
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  • 12 Angry Men on DVD (1957)
    Starring: E.G. Marshall,  Henry Fonda,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Adapted from Reginald Rose's television play, this film marked the directing debut of Sidney Lumet. At the end of a murder trial in New York City, the twelve jurors retire to consider the verdict. The man in the dock is a young Puerto Rican accused of killing his father, and eleven of the twelve ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 24,868 members
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  • 12 Angry Men - Blu-ray (1957)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Lee J. Cobb,  Ed Begley
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Adapted from Reginald Rose's television play, this film marked the directing debut of Sidney Lumet. At the end of a murder trial in New York City, the twelve jurors retire to consider the verdict. The man in the dock is a young Puerto Rican accused of killing his father, and eleven of the twelve ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 96% from 9 members
    Due for release on 2nd August 2013
  • Patterns (1956)
    Starring: Van Heflin,  Van Heflin,  Everett Sloane
    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 57% from 29 members
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  • Tulsa on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Ed Begley,  Pedro Armendariz Jr.,  Chill Wills
    Director: Stuart Heisler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Drama starring Susan Hayward as the daughter of a traditional cattle owner who builds an oil empire. When her father dies in an oil well blast, Cherokee Lansing (Hayward) becomes determined to seek revenge. However, while she fights for her property and stages wildcat drilling she forgets about all ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 88 members
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  • The Street With No Name on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Lloyd Nolan,  Ed Begley,  Barbara Lawrence
    Director: William Keighley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Classic film-noir starring Lloyd Nolan as FBI Inspector Briggs. When a housewife and a bank guard are murdered, with no connection between the victims - except the murder weapon, Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of a notorious gang run by up-and-coming crime boss ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 120 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

12 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. - 6 times - show films
Martin Balsam - 2 times - show films
June Chadwick - 2 times - show films
Ruth White - 2 times - show films
E. G. Marshall - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rob Reiner - 4 times - show films
Ted Post - 2 times - show films
Sidney Lumet - 2 times - show films
Charles Walters - 1 times - show films
Lloyd Bacon - 1 times - show films