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  • My Cousin Vinny
  • My Cousin Vinny review by A customer from Isle of Islay
    Rated - 4.0 stars Excellent comedy 19 January 2009
    ...agine anyone else more effectively playing any of the key roles. In particular, Fred Gwynne does a particularly splendid job with his portrayal of a no-nonsense Alabama ju...   Read customer review
  • The Munsters
  • The Munsters review by A customer from Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland
    Rated - 4.0 stars Gentle comedy 12 May 2006
    ... again shows how far comedy has moved and how unkind most of it is nowadays. Fred Gwynne (who plays Herman) is still perfect. And Igor, the string-driven bat, gets bett...   Read customer review

Fred Gwynne - filmography


  • Shadows And Fog on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Fred Gwynne,  Julie Kavner,  Madonna
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,989 member
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  • My Cousin Vinny on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Joe Pesci,  Fred Gwynne,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two carefree pals travelling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer. When Vinny arrives in Alabama with his leather-clad girlfriend, it's a real shock for all of them! Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress-Marisa Tomei.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,919 members
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  • Disorganised Crime on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Corbin Bernsen,  Ruben Blades,  Lou Diamond Phillips
    Director: Jim Kouf
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Frank Salazar has cooked up the perfect crime. Enlisting the help of four crooks he plans to rob a bank. But he didn't realise that he could be arrested before the crime over something completely different and neither did the rest of the gang...
    3 stars out of 5 65% from 150 members
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  • Pet Sematary on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Dale Midkiff,  Fred Gwynne,  Brad Greenquist
    Director: Mary Lambert
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dr. Louis Creed, having just moved to Maine with his wife and two children, is heartbroken when he finds that his daughter's beloved cat has been hit by a truck and killed. Thankfully, a strange, elderly neighbor called Jud knows a secret that may spare the young girl's tears. He takes the dead cat ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,808 members
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  • Fatal Attraction on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Glenn Close,  Anne Archer
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter are out of town, successful attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a one-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), the publishing executive he has just met. He has no idea what he's getting into. Immediately after the encounter, Dan wants to put ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 7,565 members
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  • The Cotton Club on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Gregory Hines,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) looks back to the 1920s-1930s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Mixing historical figures ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 977 members
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  • Water on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Brenda Vaccaro,  Billy Connolly
    Director: Dick Clement
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cascara is a rundown island, until a mineral water is discovered which makes you 'go' like clockwork. From Whitehall to Washington they are losing their bottles trying to get their hands on it.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 383 members
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  • The Munsters' Revenge on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Colby Chester,  Fred Gwynne,  Yvonne DeCarlo
    Director: Don Weis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This early-'80s made-for-TV movie includes most of the cast of the original MUNSTERS TV series. An evil scientist creates android replicas of the Munster family in order to frame them for the robbery of an art-gallery.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 17 members
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  • Luna (1979)
    Starring: Jill Clayburgh,  Matthew Barry,  Veronica Lazar
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 14 members
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  • Car 54, Where Are You? (1962)
    Starring: Joe E. Ross,  Fred Gwynne
    Director: Al De Caprio
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This release features episodes from the 1960s American sitcom CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? about a pair of NYPD officers and their exploits around town in Patrol Car 54.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • On The Waterfront on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Karl Malden,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 14,613 members
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  • On The Waterfront - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Karl Malden,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 57 members
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  • The Munsters - Series 2 (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Fred Gwynne,  Yvonne De Carlo,  Al Lewis
    Director: none
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    America's first family of fright is back on DVD with all 32 outrageous second-season episodes and hilarious new bonus features in The Munsters, The Complete Second Season! Reunite with the wacky and weird Munster clan: Herman, devoted dad and "working stiff"; Lily, the homemaker with sass; Grandpa, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 484 members
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  • The Munsters (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Fred Gwynne,  Yvonne De Carlo,  Al Lewis
    Director: Norman Abbott
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Get ready to be entertained by America's first family of fright. In this timeless one-of-a-kind comedy series, the unforgettable family og The Munsters casts a hilarious spell that will keep you laughing through every new episode. This first season includes the never-before-seen pilot episode
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 717 members
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Fred Gwynne facts

5 most recent films

Shadows And Fog - 3.0 stars
My Cousin Vinny - 3.5 stars
Disorganised Crime - 3.0 stars
Pet Sematary - 3.0 stars
Fatal Attraction - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

On The Waterfront - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Kane And Abel - The Complete Series - 4.0 stars
On The Waterfront - 3.5 stars
The Munsters - 3.5 stars
My Cousin Vinny - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Luna - 2.5 stars
Car 54, Where Are You? - Series 2 - Complete - 3.0 stars
Car 54, Where Are You? - 3.0 stars
The Munsters' Revenge - 3.5 stars
Shadows And Fog - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Al Lewis - 15 times - show films
Beverley Owen - 14 times - show films
Yvonne De Carlo - 14 times - show films
Lee J. Cobb - 2 times - show films
Laurence Fishburne - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Norman Abbott - 7 times - show films
none - 7 times - show films
Buzz Kulik - 3 times - show films
Francis Ford Coppola - 2 times - show films
Elia Kazan - 2 times - show films