Ed Lauter

Ed Lauter

October 30, 1938 · 87 years old

Ed Lauter ( October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013) was an American actor. His films include The Last American Hero (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), King Kong (1976), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), School Ties (1992), True Romance (1993), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Purple Heart…

Known For

51 titles
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The Artist

The Artist

2011 · 1h 40m · Movie

When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

7.8
2
The Number 23

The Number 23

2007 · 1h 38m · Movie

Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

6.4
3
Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

2003 · 2h 20m · Movie

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

7.3
4
Trouble with the Curve

Trouble with the Curve

2012 · 1h 51m · Movie

A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout, by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last.

6.8
5
The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer

1991 · 1h 48m · Movie

A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.

6.6
6
Cujo

Cujo

1983 · 1h 33m · Movie

Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on an American farm.

6.1
7
Real Genius

Real Genius

1985 · 1h 48m · Movie

An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the...

6.9
8
Raw Deal

Raw Deal

1986 · 1h 46m · Movie

A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.

5.6
9
King Kong

King Kong

1976 · 2h 14m · Movie

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

6.0
10
Seraphim Falls

Seraphim Falls

2007 · 1h 55m · Movie

After the end of the American Civil War, a former Confederate colonel hunts down a former Yankee officer with whom he has a grudge.

6.6
11
School Ties

School Ties

1992 · 1h 46m · Movie

In 1955, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Protestant classmates that he is Jewish.

6.9
12
Family Plot

Family Plot

1976 · 2h 0m · Movie

A phony psychic and her cab driver boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir.

6.8
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My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven

1990 · 1h 37m · Movie

An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs.

6.2
14
French Connection II

French Connection II

1975 · 1h 59m · Movie

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

6.7
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The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard

1974 · 2h 1m · Movie

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

7.1
16
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

2004 · 1h 28m · Movie

In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.

3.6
17
Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls

1996 · 1h 47m · Movie

In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

6.3
18
Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3

1985 · 1h 30m · Movie

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and immediately witnesses a friend getting killed. After being arrested, he's recruited by a crooked police chief to fight a large gang terrorizing a dilapidated neighb...

5.8
19
The Town That Dreaded Sundown

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

2014 · 1h 26m · Movie

65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called "moonlight murders" begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high-school girl may be the key to catching him.

5.6
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Youngblood

Youngblood

1986 · 1h 50m · Movie

A 17 year-old farm boy is offered an ice hockey tryout up in Canada. He has fast legs, slow fists, but is chosen. Will he learn to use his fists and play ice hockey the Canuck way? Will he get the coach's cute daughter?

6.2
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

1987 · 1h 28m · Movie

The rising college nerds set out to a convention in Florida, but are not welcomed by the Alpha Beta representatives.

5.1
22
Magic

Magic

1978 · 1h 47m · Movie

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

6.8
23
Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

1985 · 1h 30m · Movie

Janey is new in town and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular.

6.0
24
Breakheart Pass

Breakheart Pass

1975 · 1h 35m · Movie

John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.

6.7
25
Death Hunt

Death Hunt

1981 · 1h 37m · Movie

In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.

6.9
26
The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995 · 1h 46m · Movie

The true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II.

7.1
27
The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

1977 · 1h 37m · Movie

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

6.1
28
Camille

Camille

2008 · 1h 34m · Movie

A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

5.9
29
Bad Company

Bad Company

1972 · 1h 33m · Movie

A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west

6.9
30
Eureka

Eureka

1983 · 2h 10m · Movie

In 1925, a lone and obsessed Arctic prospector Jack McCann finally strikes gold. Twenty years later, he begins spiraling out of control when his only daughter becomes engaged to a man he strongly dislikes.

5.9
31
The Magnificent Seven Ride!

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

1972 · 1h 40m · Movie

Forced by personal circumstances, Marshal Chris Adams recruits a writer and five prisoners to help him eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits.

5.6
32
Under Wraps

Under Wraps

1997 · 1h 35m · Movie

Three curious teenagers and one very confused mummy collaborate through some risky adventures, with a race against time to reunite the mummy with his lover from 4,500 years ago.

6.4
33
Executive Action

Executive Action

1973 · 1h 31m · Movie

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.

6.7
34
The Lost

The Lost

2006 · 1h 59m · Movie

19-year-old Ray Pye murders two young women. Four years later, detective Charlie Schilling knows that Ray did it. He just needs to prove it. Meanwhile, Ray has met his match in a new girl in town, Katherine Wallace.

5.8
35
Lassiter

Lassiter

1984 · 1h 40m · Movie

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

5.8
36
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

1982 · 1h 34m · Movie

A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.

5.4