Acting

John C. Becher

Born 1915-01-13 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Acting credits

Gremlins poster
7.1

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

Gremlins

1984

The Man Who Wasn't There poster
4.3

When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.

The Man Who Wasn't There

1983

Crazy Joe poster
6.7

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Crazy Joe

1974

Up the Sandbox poster
5.9

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

Up the Sandbox

1972

Murphy's Romance poster
6.2

Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.

Murphy's Romance

1985

Too Far to Go poster
3.5

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.

Too Far to Go

1979

Next Stop, Greenwich Village poster
6.4

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976

Honky Tonk Freeway poster
5.4

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981

Mass Appeal poster
5.9

A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Mass Appeal

1984

The Great Bank Hoax poster
5.0

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.

The Great Bank Hoax

1978

No artwork available
4.0

The life and career of the controversial comedian, Lenny Bruce.

Dirtymouth

1970

OHMS poster
7.5

A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.

OHMS

1980

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski poster
NR

On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

1968

You Can't Go Home Again poster
3.0

An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.

You Can't Go Home Again

1979

Below the Belt poster
6.7

A close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.

Below the Belt

1980

Say Yes poster
7.0

A wealthy man leaves all his money to his grandson on the condition that he marries within 24 hours. If not the money will go to the boy's father...

Say Yes

1986

No artwork available
NR

A Christmas Festival was an annual television special by the anthology program Hallmark Hall of Fame. The 1959 event originally aired on December 13, 1959, and marked Elke Sommer's first appearance (in the role of The Princess) on American television.

A Christmas Festival

1959