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Topaze (1957)
Character: The Count
A mild-mannered schoolteacher gradually abandons all his principles - and finds the success which has always hitherto eluded him.
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The Last Tycoon (1957)
Character: Kellogg
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
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The Man in the Funny Suit (1960)
Character: Martin Manulis
A dramatisation of the difficulties faced by actor Keenan Wynn when his father comedian Ed Wynn is cast in the dramatic production of Requiem for a Heavyweight.
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Eloise (1956)
Character: Manager of the Plaza
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
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A Separate Peace (1972)
Character: Mr. Patchwithers
Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives
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The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
Character: Dr. Pittman
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
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The Sporting Club (1971)
Character: Fortesque
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
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God Told Me To (1976)
Character: Richards
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.
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Not of This Earth (1957)
Character: Frederick W. Rochelle
An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
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This Is the Army (1943)
Character: Mr. Green
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
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A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
Character: Loren Westabrook
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
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The Wasp Woman (1959)
Character: Arthur Cooper
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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92 in the Shade (1975)
Character: N/A
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
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The Harder They Fall (1956)
Character: Mrs. Harding's Lawyer (uncredited)
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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The Love Machine (1971)
Character: Cliff Dorne
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
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The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Character: Dunhill
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
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