Lionel Stander
Actor
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Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994) was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television.
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Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart (1995)
As: Max
Set in San Francisco, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart are faced with the prospect of being reunited with Jonathan's long lost sister, and her nephew. Is it possible that Jonathan will finally discover a key to his past or will the "family" turn out to be after something, putting Jonathan and Jennifer in danger's past one more time?
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Kevin Connor
Stars: Wendie Malick | Lionel Stander | Robert Wagner | Stefanie Powers | Marion Ross
The Last Good Time (1994)
As: Howard Singer
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Bob Balaban
Stars: Zohra Lampert | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Olivia d'Abo | Maureen Stapleton | Lionel Stander
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994)
As: Max
The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or an actual murder plot, until Jonathan finds himself the unsuspecting target of a killer. It begins to look like the culprit behind the plot is an old friend, Frank Crane, but there may be a connection to a corporate takeover of Hart Industries as well.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Peter Roger Hunt
Stars: David Rasche | James Shigeta | Lionel Stander | Robert Wagner | Stefanie Powers
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994)
As: Max
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Peter Roger Hunt
Stars: Alan Rachins | Richard Belzer | Lionel Stander | Robert Wagner | Stefanie Powers
Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994)
As: Max
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly immediately, they discover that all is not right within this picturesque town. The town's economic troubles pale next to the danger the Harts find themselves in as they try to sort out whether their friend's death was murder, and what ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Peter Roger Hunt
Stars: Alan Young | Lionel Stander | Robert Wagner | Stefanie Powers | Maureen O'Sullivan
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
As: Sam
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Larry Cohen
Stars: Colleen Camp | David Rasche | Bette Davis | Lionel Stander | Barbara Carrera
Belli freschi (1987)
As: Frank Santamaria
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Enrico Oldoini
Stars: Christian De Sica | Lionel Stander | Lino Banfi | Rosanna Banfi | Lisa Lavander
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
As: Kup (voice)
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Nelson Shin
Stars: Frank Welker | Judd Nelson | Leonard Nimoy | Orson Welles | Peter Cullen
1941 (1979)
As: Angelo Scioli
It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up chasing a Japanese sub planning to attack LA.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ned Beatty | Dan Aykroyd | John Belushi | Murray Hamilton | Lorraine Gary
The Squeeze (1978)
As: Sam
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Antonio Margheriti
Stars: Karen Black | Edward Albert | Lionel Stander | Lee Van Cleef | Robert Alda
Matilda (1978)
As: Pinky Schwab
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Stars: Elliott Gould | Lionel Stander | Harry Guardino | Clive Revill | Roy Clark
Cyclone (1978)
As: Taylor
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: René Cardona Jr.
Stars: Lionel Stander | Hugo Stiglitz | Arthur Kennedy | Carroll Baker | Andrés García
New York, New York (1977)
As: Tony Harwell
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Runtime: 155 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro | Liza Minnelli | Dick Miller | Lionel Stander | Barry Primus
San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne (1976)
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Stars: Lionel Stander | Orchidea De Santis | Lando Buzzanca | Stella Carnacina | Gianni Cavina
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
As: Max, the Train Conductor
The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and exposes all aboard to the disease. Colonel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation and finds Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) who is ...
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Stars: Richard Harris | Martin Sheen | O.J. Simpson | Sophia Loren | Ava Gardner
The Black Bird (1975)
As: Gordon Immerman
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: David Giler
Stars: George Segal | Lionel Stander | Stéphane Audran | Lee Patrick | Elisha Cook Jr.
Red Coat (1975)
As: Docteur Higgins
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Joe D'Amato
Stars: Fabio Testi | Renato Cestiè | Lionel Stander | Guido Mannari | Lynne Frederick
La novizia (1975)
As: Don Nini
A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the young man develops a deep longing for the young, beautiful nun.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Giuliano Biagetti
Stars: Femi Benussi | Gloria Guida | Fiore Altoviti | Gino Milli | Beppe Loparco
Innocence and Desire (1974)
As: Salvatore Niscemi
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Massimo Dallamano
Stars: Lionel Stander | Edwige Fenech | Eleonora Morana | Vittorio Caprioli | Giovanna Di Vita
The Black Hand (1973)
As: Lieutenant Giuseppe Petrosino
Michele Placido plays Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York who finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Antonio Racioppi
Stars: Michele Placido | Lionel Stander | Annie Carol Edel | Corrado Gaipa | Rosanna Fratello
Mordi e fuggi (1973)
As: General
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Dino Risi
Stars: Oliver Reed | Marcello Mastroianni | Lionel Stander | Bruno Cirino | Carole André
Halleluja to Vera Cruz (1973)
As: Sam 'Tonaca"' Thompson
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Stelvio Massi
Stars: Lionel Stander | Giampiero Albertini | Riccardo Salvino | Jean Louis | Clara Hopf
Paolo il caldo (1973)
As: Baron Castorini
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Marco Vicario
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini | Lionel Stander | Riccardo Cucciolla | Rossana Podestà | Gastone Moschin
Father Jackleg (1972)
As: Stinky Manure
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Enzo G. Castellari
Stars: Jack Palance | Lionel Stander | Francesca Romana Coluzzi | Giancarlo Prete | Mabel Karin
Pulp (1972)
As: Ben Dinuccio
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mike Hodges
Stars: Michael Caine | Mickey Rooney | Lionel Stander | Lizabeth Scott | Nadia Cassini
Treasure Island (1972)
As: Billy Bones
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: John Hough
Stars: Ángel del Pozo | Orson Welles | Walter Slezak | Kim Burfield | Rik Battaglia
Caliber 9 (1972)
As: Americano
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Fernando Di Leo
Stars: Barbara Bouchet | Mario Adorf | Luigi Pistilli | Gastone Moschin | Frank Wolff
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York (1972)
In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them - killed in a clash - decides to send half a million dollars in Sicily hidden in the body of the deceased.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Luigi Vanzi
Stars: Lionel Stander | Irene Papas | Corrado Gaipa | Tony Anthony | Adolfo Celi
All the Brothers of the West Support Their Father (1972)
As: Lucky Capone
Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Sergio Grieco
Stars: Lionel Stander | Brigitte Skay | Marisa Mell | Peter Carsten | Antonio Sabàto
Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (1972)
As: Peppone
Directed by: Mario Camerini
Stars: Lionel Stander | Daniele Dublino | Gastone Moschin | Paolo Giusti | Carole André
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
As: Baccala
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: James Goldstone
Stars: Robert De Niro | Lionel Stander | Jerry Orbach | Leigh Taylor-Young | Jo Van Fleet
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971)
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Michele Lupo
Stars: Philippe Leroy | Lionel Stander | Franco Fabrizi | Ugo Tognazzi | Gastone Moschin
Per grazia ricevuta (1971)
As: Oreste
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Nino Manfredi
Stars: Lionel Stander | Mariangela Melato | Delia Boccardo | Nino Manfredi | Paola Borboni
The Naughty Cheerleader (1970)
As: The Admiral
West German comedy film directed by Will Tremper and starring Barbi Benton.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Will Tremper
Stars: Lionel Stander | Hampton Fancher | Clyde Ventura | Broderick Crawford | Barbi Benton
Boot Hill (1969)
As: Mamy
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Giuseppe Colizzi
Stars: Terence Hill | Bud Spencer | Woody Strode | Eduardo Ciannelli | Glauco Onorato
Zenabel (1969)
As: Pancrazio
Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who was killed by a ruthless don, Alonso, who took the title. So Zenable assembles a group of misfit friends to reclaim her title.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Ruggero Deodato
Stars: Lionel Stander | John Ireland | Mauro Parenti | Lucretia Love
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
As: Don Tosello
Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs, habits, medicine, religion and most of all - the omnipresence of hypocrisy. Written by Yepok
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Luigi Comencini
Stars: Lionel Stander | Senta Berger | Maria Grazia Buccella | Leonard Whiting | Raoul Grassilli
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
As: Barman
This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.
Runtime: 164 min.
Directed by: Sergio Leone
Stars: Claudia Cardinale | Gabriele Ferzetti | Charles Bronson | Jason Robards | Henry Fonda
Gates to Paradise (1968)
As: The Monk
Directed by Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda, the obscure gem unfolds as a sort of 13th century Road Trip, with youthful hormones and selfish impatience trumping nearly all of the (supposedly) pious preoccupations of their handsome leader Jacques (blonde heartthrob John Fordyce, constantly and comically running his fingers through his Beatlesque moptop).
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Mathieu Carrière | Lionel Stander | Ferdy Mayne | Jenny Agutter | Pauline Challoner
Seven Times Seven (1968)
As: Sam
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Michele Lupo
Stars: Lionel Stander | Gordon Mitchell | Raimondo Vianello | Gastone Moschin | Paolo Gozlino
Beyond the Law (1968)
As: Preacher
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Giorgio Stegani
Stars: Lionel Stander | Bud Spencer | Gordon Mitchell | Lee Van Cleef | Antonio Sabàto
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
As: Sobakevich
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Anthony Mann | Laurence Harvey
Stars: Mia Farrow | Peter Cook | Harry Andrews | Laurence Harvey | Tom Courtenay
Promise Her Anything (1966)
As: Sam
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Warren Beatty | Lionel Stander | Keenan Wynn | Robert Cummings | Leslie Caron
Cul-de-Sac (1966)
As: Richard
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Roman Polański
Stars: Lionel Stander | Donald Pleasence | Jack MacGowran | Iain Quarrier | Françoise Dorléac
The Loved One (1965)
As: The Guru Brahmin ("Hump")
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Stars: Robert Morse | Jonathan Winters | Dana Andrews | Anjanette Comer | Milton Berle
The Moving Finger (1963)
A rare beatnik artifact of the early 1960s, one of only a few such films made before the hippies took over Hollywood. Low budget and in b&w, it's set in Greenwich Village, with what seems like a mostly improvised script. It begins as a late film noir crime tale involving a bank robbery where only one of a group of thieves escapes with his life, as well as $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Larry Moyer
Stars: Lionel Stander | Barry Newman | Shel Silverstein | Moondog | Zelda R. Suplee
St. Benny the Dip (1951)
As: Monk Williams
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Lionel Stander | Nina Foch | Roland Young | Dick Haymes | Freddie Bartholomew
Trouble Makers (1949)
As: 'Hatchet' Moran
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Runtime: 66 min.
Directed by: Reginald Le Borg
Stars: Lionel Stander | Gabriel Dell | Huntz Hall | Leo Gorcey | Frankie Darro
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
As: Hugo Standoff
Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Stars: Linda Darnell | Barbara Lawrence | Rex Harrison | Kurt Kreuger | Rudy Vallee
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
As: Bellhop
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New ...
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: William Castle
Stars: Guy Madison | Diana Lynn | Florence Bates | James Dunn | Michael Chekhov
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
As: Max
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Stars: Raymond Walburn | Jimmy Conlin | Edgar Kennedy | Harold Lloyd | Rudy Vallee
Specter of the Rose (1946)
As: Lionel Gans
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Ben Hecht
Stars: Lionel Stander | Judith Anderson | Michael Chekhov | Ivan Kirov | Viola Essen
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog (1946)
As: Jim
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. ...
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Herbert Kline
Stars: Lionel Stander | Charles Williams | Harry Davenport | Jerry Hunter | Sharyn Moffett
In Old Sacramento (1946)
As: Eddie Dodge
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Joseph Kane
Stars: Bill Elliott | Ruth Donnelly | Eugene Pallette | Henry H. Daniels Jr. | Constance Moore
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
As: Spider Schultz
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Virginia Mayo | Eve Arden | Steve Cochran | Vera-Ellen | Danny Kaye
The Big Show-Off (1945)
As: Joe Bagley
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
Runtime: 69 min.
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
Stars: Lionel Stander | George Meeker | Dale Evans | Arthur Lake | Paul Hurst
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
As: Banya
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Stars: Brian Donlevy | Gene Lockhart | Walter Brennan | Anna Lee | Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Tahiti Honey (1943)
As: Pinkie
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl ...
Runtime: 68 min.
Directed by: John H. Auer
Stars: Lionel Stander | Michael Whalen | Simone Simon | Dennis O'Keefe | Wally Vernon
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
As: Sgt. Butch
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Richard Conte | Lloyd Nolan | William Bendix | Preston Foster
What a Life (1939)
As: Ferguson
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Theodore Reed
Stars: Lionel Stander | Jackie Cooper | John Howard | Hedda Hopper | Betty Field
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
As: Mort Hodges
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. To prove that he can accomplish things on his own, he leaves Hollywood and convinces a former partner to put on an ice revue in Canada. The show is a huge success, but it makes it impossible for him to be with his wife, but the studio boss has a ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Reinhold Schünzel
Stars: James Stewart | Lew Ayres | Lewis Stone | Joan Crawford | The International Ice Follies
The Crowd Roars (1938)
As: 'Happy' Lane
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Frank Morgan | Edward Arnold | Maureen O'Sullivan | Robert Taylor | William Gargan
Professor Beware (1938)
As: Jerry
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Elliott Nugent
Stars: Lionel Stander | Raymond Walburn | William Frawley | Harold Lloyd | Phyllis Welch
No Time To Marry (1938)
As: Al Vogel
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
Runtime: 63 min.
Directed by: Harry Lachman
Stars: Lionel Stander | Richard Arlen | Virginia Dale | Mary Astor | Marjorie Gateson
The Last Gangster (1937)
As: Curly
Edward G. Robinson stars as a crime boss who goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a 10 year prison stint. Robinson's old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer. A young James Stewart, early in his career, plays a sizable role as a newspaper reporter who marries the gangster's wife.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Edward Ludwig
Stars: Lionel Stander | James Stewart | Edward G. Robinson | Douglas Scott | Rose Stradner
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
As: Archie Goodwin
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
Runtime: 71 min.
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Lionel Stander | Eduardo Ciannelli | Victor Kilian | Irene Hervey | Walter Connolly
A Star Is Born (1937)
As: Matt Libby
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor machine (ruthlessly satirized). She and her idol Norman marry; but his career abruptly dwindles to nothing
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Stars: Andy Devine | Adolphe Menjou | Fredric March | May Robson | Janet Gaynor
More Than a Secretary (1936)
As: Ernest
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Lionel Stander | Ruth Donnelly | George Brent | Reginald Denny | Jean Arthur
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
As: Fingers Garrison
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Lionel Stander | Raymond Walburn | Henry Mollison | Chester Morris | Fay Wray
Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
As: Archie Goodwin
Meet Nero Wolfe is a 1936 mystery film based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance, written by Rex Stout. Set in New York, the story introduced the detective genius Nero Wolfe (Edward Arnold) and his assistant Archie Goodwin (Lionel Stander).
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Herbert J. Biberman
Stars: Lionel Stander | Victor Jory | Nana Bryant | Edward Arnold | Dennie Moore
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
As: Cornelius Cobb
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Frank Capra
Stars: Lionel Stander | Douglass Dumbrille | Gary Cooper | Jean Arthur | George Bancroft
The Milky Way (1936)
As: Spider Schultz
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Stars: Adolphe Menjou | William Gargan | Harold Lloyd | Helen Mack | Verree Teasdale
Soak the Rich (1936)
As: Muglia
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Ben Hecht | Charles MacArthur
Stars: Lionel Stander | John Howard | Ilka Chase | Mary Zimbalist | Walter Connolly
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
As: Flash
An auto engineer (Herbert Marshall) and a professor's daughter (Jean Arthur) pose as married servants in a mobster's (Leo Carrillo) mansion.
Runtime: 72 min.
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Stars: Lionel Stander | Herbert Marshall | Jean Arthur | Leo Carrillo | Alan Edwards
I Live My Life (1935)
As: Yaffitz, Bridge Player
A flighty society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Frank Morgan | Joan Crawford | Aline MacMahon | Eric Blore | Brian Aherne
The Gay Deception (1935)
As: Gettel
Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: William Wyler
Stars: Francis Lederer | Alan Mowbray | Frances Dee | Benita Hume | Lennox Pawle
Page Miss Glory (1935)
As: Nick Papadopolis
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Pat O’Brien | Frank McHugh | Dick Powell | Mary Astor | Marion Davies
We're in the Money (1935)
As: Leonidus Giovanni 'Butch' Gonzola
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Runtime: 66 min.
Directed by: Ray Enright
Stars: Hobart Cavanaugh | Hugh Herbert | Glenda Farrell | Joan Blondell | Ross Alexander
Hooray for Love (1935)
As: Chowsky
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
Runtime: 72 min.
Directed by: Walter Lang
Stars: Lionel Stander | Ann Sothern | Thurston Hall | Gene Raymond | Pert Kelton
The Scoundrel (1935)
As: Rothenstien
When Anthony Mallare does his usual hatchet job on poet Cora Moore, she plants a curse on his head, praying that he'll die and that no one will mourn him. Within the week, Mallare is killed in a plane crash. Slated for Purgatory, Mallare is given a second chance; if he can find someone who will weep for him, his soul will be saved.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Ben Hecht | Charles MacArthur
Stars: Stanley Ridges | Ernest Cossart | Martha Sleeper | Julie Haydon | Noël Coward
The Old Grey Mayor (1935)
As: Alderman Tom Mulligan
Bob Hope wants to marry the mayor's daughter, but the mayor doesn't want his daughter to marry Bob Hope.
Runtime: 20 min.
Directed by: Lloyd French
Stars: Bob Hope | Lionel Stander | Ruth Hall | Sam Wren | George Watts
Smoked Hams (1934)
As: Mr. Ivanitch
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
Runtime: 19 min.
Directed by: Lloyd French
Stars: Lionel Stander | Harry Shannon | Shemp Howard | Daphne Pollard
Mushrooms (1934)
As: Bertram
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
Runtime: 20 min.
Directed by: Ralph Staub
Stars: Lionel Stander | Shemp Howard | Cora Witherspoon | Harry Gribbon | Loretta Sayers
Howd' Ya Like That? (1934)
As: Customs Officer
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
Runtime: 18 min.
Directed by: Ray McCarey
Stars: Lionel Stander | Penny Singleton | Charles Judels | George Givot | J. Anthony Hughes
Salt Water Daffy (1933)
As: Chief Petty Officer Lambert
Two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
Runtime: 21 min.
Directed by: Ray McCarey
Stars: Lionel Stander | Shemp Howard | Charles Judels | Jack Haley