Wesley Lau

Acting

Wesley Lau

Born 1921-06-18 · Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA

Acting credits

The Alamo poster
7.1

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

The Alamo

1960

Zabriskie Point poster
7.0

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Zabriskie Point

1970

Cry Panic poster
6.9

A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.

Cry Panic

1974

Incident on a Dark Street poster
5.3

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

Incident on a Dark Street

1973

I Want to Live! poster
7.0

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

I Want to Live!

1958

Journey to Shiloh poster
5.4

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

Journey to Shiloh

1968

Skyjacked poster
6.2

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.

Skyjacked

1972

The Venetian Affair poster
4.9

Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.

The Venetian Affair

1966

The Ride to Hangman's Tree poster
4.9

Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.

The Ride to Hangman's Tree

1967

The Sweet Ride poster
5.1

AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.

The Sweet Ride

1968

Call to Danger poster
9.0

A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and held in a heavily fortified compound.

Call to Danger

1973

Lepke poster
4.9

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.

Lepke

1975

Lepke poster
4.9

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.

Lepke

1975

Crosscurrent poster
7.0

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain

Crosscurrent

1971

No Place to Run poster
6.1

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

No Place to Run

1972

Homebodies poster
6.8

When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

Homebodies

1974

Panic in the City poster
5.5

An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.

Panic in the City

1968

Behind the camera