List of the best Lionel Stander movies: Between Miracles(1971), The Senator Likes Women(1973), Meet Nero Wolfe(1936), Cul-de-Sac(1966), More Than a Secretary(1936), The Last Good Time(1994), Pulp(1972), The Big Show-Off(1945), The Black Bird(1975), The Old Grey Mayor(1935), Father Jack-Leg(1972), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town(1936) ... ...
Comedy
Italy
1971
118 Minutes
Oreste Micheli
Nino Manfredi Lionel Stander Delia Boccardo Paola Borboni Mario Scaccia Mariangela Melato Fausto Tozzi
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 ... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy
1973
95 Minutes
Laura Antonelli Lionel Stander Lando Buzzanca Corrado Gaipa Renzo Palmer Agostina Belli José Quaglio
A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
73 Minutes
Edward Arnold Lionel Stander Dennie Moore Victor Jory Nana Bryant Joan Perry Russell Hardie Walter Kingsford Boyd Irwin John Qualen Gene Morgan
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1966
110 Minutes
Richard
Donald Pleasence Françoise Dorléac Lionel Stander Jack MacGowran Iain Quarrier Jacqueline Bisset William Franklyn Trevor Delaney
retiree wife criminal guest partner husband amusing dark offbeat thrilling castle beach england road bedroom crime infidelity isolation friendship loyalty
In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Romance
USA
1936
77 Minutes
Ernest
Jean Arthur George Brent Lionel Stander Dorothea Kent Ruth Donnelly Reginald Denny Charles Halton
secretary editor floozy colleague health nut lighthearted spirited office new york city romance journalism employment working woman love rivalry transformation 1930s
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1994
90 Minutes
Howard Singer
Armin Mueller-Stahl Maureen Stapleton Lionel Stander Olivia d'Abo Adrian Pasdar
violinist retiree mobster woman neighbor charming tender new york city apartment building hospital aging alzheimer's disease philosophy musical performance passion domestic violence love underdog 1990s
Joseph, a former professional musician who has withdrawn into a quiet life after the death of his wife. Remaining mostly isolated, he stays at home, playing his violin in the evenings for ... See full summary »
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1972
96 Minutes
Ben Dinuccio
Michael Caine Mickey Rooney Lionel Stander Lizabeth Scott Nadia Cassini Al Lettieri Dennis Price Amerigo Tot Leopoldo Trieste Robert Sacchi Joe Z. Cordina
author actor princess clairvoyant priest hit man amusing cool offbeat rome malta party ghost writing cross-dressing surveillance murder investigation cancer mystery pursuit
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
69 Minutes
Joe Bagley
Arthur Lake Dale Evans Lionel Stander George Meeker Paul Hurst Marjorie Manners Sammy Stein Louis Adlon Douglas Wood Emmett Lynn
Joe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, ... See full summary »
Comedy
Australia
1975
100 Minutes
Gordon Immerman
George Segal Stéphane Audran Lionel Stander Lee Patrick Elisha Cook Jr. Felix Silla Signe Hasso John Abbott Connie Kreski Titus Napoleon Harry Kenoi
A portrait of the Mutton Bird industry in the Furneaux Group of islands in Australia's Bass Strait. Each year the 'Birders,' many of whom are descendants of Tasmanian aboriginals, harvest ... See full summary »
Comedy
1935
20 Minutes
Alderman Tom Mulligan
Bob Hope Ruth Hall Lionel Stander Sam Wren George Watts
Comedy, Action, Western
1972
99 Minutes
Stinky Manure
Jack Palance Timothy Brent Lionel Stander Francesca Romana Coluzzi Renzo Palmer Mabel Karin
Family members try to wrest control of a gold mine from a con artist who has no idea of its true value.
Comedy
USA
1936
115 Minutes
Cornelius Cobb
Gary Cooper Jean Arthur George Bancroft Lionel Stander Douglas Dumbrille Raymond Walburn Margaret Matzenauer H.B. Warner Warren Hymer Muriel Evans Ruth Donnelly
heir reporter lawyer amusing charming spirited new york city small town vermont fame wealth love small-town life city vs. country love discovery transformation rise 1930s
A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Drama
USA
1946
51 Minutes
Jim
Jerry Hunter Sharyn Moffett Harry Davenport Lionel Stander Charles Williams Charlotte Treadway Howard Johnson John Vosper Nancy Evans
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... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
81 Minutes
'Curly'
Edward G. Robinson James Stewart Rose Stradner Lionel Stander Douglas Scott John Carradine Sidney Blackmer Grant Mitchell
gangster wife reporter henchman brother son melodramatic gripping spirited new york city alcatraz island newsroom household street organized crime murder father/son relationship marriage kidnapping imprisonment
A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1968
107 Minutes
Sobakevich
Laurence Harvey Tom Courtenay Mia Farrow Lionel Stander Harry Andrews Peter Cook Per Oscarsson Barbara Murray Norman Bird Michael Trubshawe Geoffrey Denton
spy secret agent photographer double agent intricate gripping west berlin hideout street office espionage deception murder political intrigue mystery pursuit adventure cold war
During the Cold War, the British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-Agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) as a pawn in the complex spy-game.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1951
80 Minutes
Monk Williams
Dick Haymes Nina Foch Roland Young Lionel Stander Freddie Bartholomew Oscar Karlweis Dort Clark Will Lee Verne Colette Richard Gordon
con artist con man priest police officers cheeky confident crafty creative lighthearted mission room new york united states escape police pursuit mistaken identity hide escape growing up rise
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.
Comedy
USA
1938
87 Minutes
Jerry
Harold Lloyd Phyllis Welch William Frawley Raymond Walburn Lionel Stander Thurston Hall Cora Witherspoon Sterling Holloway Mary Lawrence Montagu Love Etienne Girardot
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... See full summary »
Drama
Italy
1973
120 Minutes
Paolo's Grandfather, Baron Castorini
Giancarlo Giannini Rossana Podestà Gastone Moschin Riccardo Cucciolla Lionel Stander Adriana Asti
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, ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1989
92 Minutes
Sam
Bette Davis Barbara Carrera Colleen Camp David Rasche Lionel Stander Tom Bosley Shawn Donahue Richard Moll Evelyn Keyes Susie Garrett Laurene Landon
witch daughter cat husband father wife quirky amusing suspenseful emotional household bedroom backyard living room family dysfunction scam seduction remarriage husband/wife relationship magic
A mother and daughter pair of witches wreaks havoc on a suburban family.
Romance
USA
1948
105 Minutes
Hugo Standoff
Rex Harrison Linda Darnell Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Kurt Kreuger Lionel Stander Edgar Kennedy Alan Bridge Julius Tannen Torben Meyer
orchestra conductor brother-in-law wife detective secretary amusing charming family home concert stage love marriage infidelity jealousy classical music love revenge 1930s
While conducting a symphony orchestra, Sir Alfred De Carter imagines three different ways of dealing with his wife's suspected infidelity, then tries acting out his fantasies, but things do... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Matt Libby
Janet Gaynor Fredric March Adolphe Menjou May Robson Andy Devine Lionel Stander Franklin Pangborn Owen Moore J.C. Nugent Clara Blandick Peggy Wood
actor actress engaging emotional touching hollywood, calif. movie set aging alcoholism love ambition actors love sacrifice quest 1930s
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Musical
1939
82 Minutes
Mort Hodges
Joan Crawford James Stewart Lew Ayres Lewis Stone Bess Ehrhardt Lionel Stander Charles D. Brown
Two married ice skaters (Joan Crawford, James Stewart) have career trouble; the finale is a Cinderella fantasy in color.
Drama
1938
92 Minutes
"Happy" Lane
Robert Taylor Edward Arnold Maureen O'Sullivan Frank Morgan William Gargan Lionel Stander Jane Wyman Nat Pendleton Charles D. Brown Gene Reynolds Don "Red" Barry
boxer gambler alcoholic bookie childhood friend love interest brooding engaging gutsy boxing ring bar boxing guilt corruption accidental death redemption gambling underdog forbidden love quest
A boxer (Robert Taylor) promoted by his boozing father gains a killer reputation and falls for a bookie's (Edward Arnold) daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan).
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Spider Schultz
Danny Kaye Vera-Ellen Virginia Mayo Walter Abel Eve Arden Steve Cochran Lionel Stander Fay Bainter Clarence Kolb Victor Cutler Charles Cane
milkman sister pretty woman boxer coach manager lighthearted playful amusing club alley apartment boxing ring gym warehouse publicity deception boxing brother/sister relationship drugs
After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.
Comedy
1947
90 Minutes
Max
Harold Lloyd Frances Ramsden Jimmy Conlin Raymond Walburn Edgar Kennedy Arline Judge Lionel Stander Rudy Vallee
football player boss secretary hustler bartender worker outlandish amusing lighthearted locker room bar jail office unemployment ambition the past success midlife crisis new life transformation
After being fired from his office job, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) gets drunk, goes on a wild binge, and buys a near-bankrupt circus.
Comedy
1978
105 Minutes
Pinky Schwab
Elliott Gould Robert Mitchum Harry Guardino Clive Revill Karen Carlson Roy Clark Lionel Stander Art Metrano Larry Pennell Roberta Collins Lenny Montana
A sportswriter (Robert Mitchum) sees a story in a small-time promoter (Elliott Gould) and his boxing kangaroo.
Comedy
1947
79 Minutes
Max
Harold Lloyd Frances Ramsden Jimmy Conlin Raymond Walburn Edgar Kennedy Arline Judge Lionel Stander Rudy Vallee
bookkeeper tycoon gambler bartender banker lion dark hilarious dreamy office bar bank jail amnesia double life circus lions panic drinking adventure
Unemployed, unattached and with little money to his name, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) heads to his local watering hole where, when he awakens from his drunken stupor, he learns he's purchased a struggling circus.
Western
Italy|USA
1969
165 Minutes
Barman
Henry Fonda Claudia Cardinale Charles Bronson Jason Robards Frank Wolff Gabriele Ferzetti Keenan Wynn Paolo Stoppa Marco Zuanelli Lionel Stander Jack Elam
gunslinger mercenary tycoon wife thrilling brutal gutsy boomtown farm railway wild west railroad vengeance expansionism american west revenge quest underdog 1880s
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
War
USA
1943
93 Minutes
Sgt. Butch
Preston Foster Lloyd Nolan William Bendix Richard Conte Anthony Quinn Richard Jaeckel Roy Roberts Minor Watson Ralph Byrd Lionel Stander Reed Hadley
soldier combat pilot chaplain cab driver teenager mexican-american confident patriotic washington, d.c. south pacific solomon islands world war ii battle horrors of war friendship rescue sacrifice 1940s
The story of a large U.S. Marines invasion task force bound for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942.
Comedy, Western
Italy
1969
87 Minutes
Mamy
Terence Hill Bud Spencer Woody Strode Glauco Onorato Edward Ciannelli George Eastman Alberto Dell'Acqua Nazzareno Zamperla Victor Buono Lionel Stander
gold digger mine owner cowboy bandit artist gory airy amusing suspenseful thrilling hilarious circus mine wild west gold digging gangsters murder danger friendship adventure
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Italy|West Germany|USA
1977
126 Minutes
Sophia Loren Richard Harris Ava Gardner Burt Lancaster Martin Sheen Ingrid Thulin Lee Strasberg John Phillip Law Ann Turkel O.J. Simpson Lionel Stander
lover terrorist military officer doctor beautiful woman ex-husband suspenseful gripping intense train poland europe bridge terrorism disease runaway train smuggling impersonation isolation pursuit
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
War
USA
1943
131 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Walter Brennan Anna Lee Gene Lockhart Dennis O'Keefe Alexander Granach Margaret Wycherly Nana Bryant William Roy Hans Heinrich von Twardowski Tonio Selwart
rebel nazi professor traitor suspenseful gripping patriotic rousing czechoslovakia city prague nazism rebellion assassination political intrigue world war ii escape rescue 1940s
After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Comedy
USA
1965
116 Minutes
Robert Morse Jonathan Winters Anjanette Comer Rod Steiger Dana Andrews Milton Berle James Coburn John Gielgud Tab Hunter Margaret Leighton Liberace
poet uncle stylist mortician reverend teen boy madcap dark los angeles cemetery pet cemetery death funeral business love triangle schemes spiritual crisis quest rivalry 1960s
Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Romance
1935
92 Minutes
Joan Crawford Brian Aherne Frank Morgan Aline MacMahon Eric Blore Arthur Treacher Fred Keating Jessie Ralph Frank Conroy Etienne Girardot Edward Brophy
socialite archaeologist father millionaire butler grandmother airy witty charming lighthearted new york city yacht greece island connecticut museum class distinctions deception vacation love triangle
An heiress and a young archaeologist fall in love during a chance meeting, but they find that money poses a problem.