Acting

Les Podewell

Born 1907-11-03 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Acting credits

Groundhog Day poster
7.6

A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

Groundhog Day

1993

Code of Silence poster
5.9

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Code of Silence

1985

Blink poster
6.1

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.

Blink

1993

Only the Lonely poster
6.2

Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.

Only the Lonely

1991

Gaily, Gaily poster
4.3

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.

Gaily, Gaily

1969

Will: G. Gordon Liddy poster
5.0

Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.

Will: G. Gordon Liddy

1982

The Naked Face poster
5.5

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.

The Naked Face

1984

Equinox poster
5.7

Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer uncovers their royal lineage and inheritance, the brothers’ fate intertwines in unexpected ways.

Equinox

1992

Heart of Steel poster
6.8

A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.

Heart of Steel

1983

Who Am I This Time? poster
7.5

Harry is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Helene is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Harry's Stanley when the theater group performs A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.

Who Am I This Time?

1982

Dream Breakers poster
9.0

A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder with underworld connections; the younger son, a priest in one of the city's poor parishes, is fighting the forces for which his brother works.

Dream Breakers

1989

Are You Popular? poster
4.2

The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized.

Are You Popular?

1947

Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter poster
9.0

Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars.

Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter

1979

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine poster
NR

The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine

1982

No artwork available
2.5

An androgynous 'hep pixie' helps a lonely junior high student release his inner musician and join his school band.

Mr. B Natural

1956