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Richard Dysart



Filmography

Richard Dysart - filmography


  • L.A. Law: The Movie (2006)
    Starring: Corbin Bernsen,  Susan Dey,  Larry Drake
    Director: Michael Schultz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas Brackman, Jr. as the senior managing partner. New ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 9 members
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  • Hard Rain - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Betty White,  Morgan Freeman,  Mark Rolston
    Director: Mikael Salomon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A heavy rainstorm and severe flooding cause the sheriff and residents of a local town to evacuate and abandon it. However, an armoured vehicle carrying $3 million gets caught in the storm, making it a sitting duck for a gang of bandits, led by Jim (Morgan Freeman), who attempts to steal the cash. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 120 members
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  • Hard Rain on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Betty White,  Morgan Freeman,  Mark Rolston
    Director: Mikael Salomon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A heavy rainstorm and severe flooding cause the sheriff and residents of a local town to evacuate and abandon it. However, an armoured vehicle carrying $3 million gets caught in the storm, making it a sitting duck for a gang of bandits, led by Jim (Morgan Freeman), who attempts to steal the cash. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,178 members
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  • Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Series 1 - Vol. 1.2 (1997)
    Starring: Keith David,  Richard Dysart
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Continuing the saga of the undead soul harvester. In 'Dominoes', Spawn stalks a spy who has been photographing his former wife, Wanda. CIA chief Wynn becomes intrigued by Spawn's role in the death of gangster Overkill. 'Souls in the Balance' sees Spawn attempting to save Wanda's abducted daughter, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 154 members
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  • Hiroshima on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Hal Holbrook,  Barnard Hughes,  Brian Dennehy
    Director: Joseph Sargent
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dramatic account of the race to develop the atomic bomb, the ethics and politics behind it, and the events which led to its use at the end of World War 2. It begins with Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard (Michael Tucker) discovering how to split the atom and subsequently attempting to persuade the US ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 68 members
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  • The Last Days Of Patton on DVD (1986)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Eva Marie Saint,  Murray Hamilton
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sixteen years after his Oscar-winning performance as General Patton, actor George C. Scott once again played the famous military leader in this made-for-TV-movie. "The Last Days of Patton" explores the final years of the officer's life, when he fell out of grace with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 71 members
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  • Pale Rider on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Marvin J. Mc Intyre,  Elisha Cook,  Chris Penn
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A mysterious and possibly otherworldly stranger comes to the rescue of a frontier town in this Western, which was strongly influenced by the George Stevens classic, Shane. The peace of a small mining community is shattered when Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart), the ruthless proprietor of a powerful ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 8,276 members
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  • Mask on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Lawrence Monoson,  Todd Allen,  Ben Piazza
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a personable young man suffering from lionitis, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. The son of freewheeling biker Rusty Dennis (Cher), Rocky is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and cycle buddies, but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,348 members
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  • The Thing - Blu-ray (1982)
    Starring: T.K. Carter,  Kurt Russell,  Richard Masur
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Carpenter's ice-bound sci-fi horror is a special effects-laden update of the 1951 Howard Hawks classic 'The Thing From Another World'. A research team in the Antarctic discovers a spaceship buried beneath the ice, and becomes terrorised by the shape-changing monster that is housed within.
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 4,689 members
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  • The Thing on DVD (1982)
    Starring: T.K. Carter,  Kurt Russell,  Richard Masur
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Carpenter's ice-bound sci-fi horror is a special effects-laden update of the 1951 Howard Hawks classic 'The Thing From Another World'. A research team in the Antarctic discovers a spaceship buried beneath the ice, and becomes terrorised by the shape-changing monster that is housed within.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 23,786 members
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  • Being There on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Richard Basehart,  Jack Warden
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire's estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he has seen on TV. When his benefactor dies, Chance walks aimlessly into the streets of Washington D.C., where he is struck by a car owned by wealthy Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine)...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,613 members
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  • Being There - Blu-ray (1979)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Richard Basehart,  Jack Warden
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Peter Sellers plays a simple, innocent gardener who falls in with some high-powered political folk who mistake his endless prattle about gardening for allegorical wisdom. Shirley MacLaine is the Washington socialite who brings him home.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 523 members
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  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Jerry Green,  Woody Chambliss,  Odetta
    Director: John Korty
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Award-winning made-for-TV drama with Cicely Tyson portraying the life of a fictional 110-year-old African-American woman. During the struggles of the civil rights movement, journalist Quentin Lerner (Michael Murphy), researching an idea for a book, travels to the deep south to interview the woman ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 55 members
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  • The White People's Fountain (1974)
    Starring: Odetta,  Richard Dysart,  Cicely Tyson
    Director: John Korty
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in rural Louisiana and spanning more than 100 years of American history - from the Civil War up through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s - the story follows the life of a former slave, Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson), who over the course of the story ages from 19 to 110.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 32 members
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  • The Hospital (1971)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Diana Rigg,  Barnard Hughes
    Director: Arthur Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dark, satiric look at what happens at the Manhattan Medical Center, a large city hospital, when a number of bizarre, but fatal, incidents are eventually traced to a former doctor gone insane.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 13 members
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Richard Dysart facts

5 most recent films

L.A. Law: The Movie - 3.0 stars
Hard Rain - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Hard Rain - 3.0 stars
Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Series 1 - Vol. 1.2 - 3.5 stars
Todd McFarlane's Spawn - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Thing - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Thing - 3.5 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Pale Rider - 3.5 stars
Mask - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

L.A. Law - Series 7 - 0.5 stars
L.A. Law - Series 8 - 0.5 stars
L.A. Law: The Movie - 3.0 stars
The White People's Fountain - 3.0 stars
The Hospital - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Tucker - 8 times - show films
Jill Eikenberry - 8 times - show films
Corbin Bernsen - 8 times - show films
Alan Rachins - 7 times - show films
Larry Drake - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Win Phelps - 4 times - show films
John Korty - 3 times - show films
John Carpenter - 3 times - show films
David Carson - 3 times - show films
Gregory Hoblit - 2 times - show films