John Pleshette

Acting

John Pleshette

Born 1942-07-27 · New York City, New York, USA

John Pleshette (born 27 July 1942) is an American actor and screenwriter.

Acting credits

The Truman Show poster
8.2

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.

The Truman Show

1998

Rocky poster
7.8

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!

Rocky

1976

Rocky II poster
7.3

After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.

Rocky II

1979

James Dean poster
6.8

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.

James Dean

2001

The Failures poster
4.0

In this dark comedy, a teenage misfit helps a depressed loser try to end his life. But her plan gets complicated when love gets in the way.

The Failures

2004

Helter Skelter poster
5.8

The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious man, attracts road-weary single mother Linda Kasabian to join his collection of outcasts on a ranch outside of Los Angeles. After murdering actress Sharon Tate, Manson and his followers are investigated by district attorney Vincent Bugliosi.

Helter Skelter

2004

Gentlemen Broncos poster
5.7

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Gentlemen Broncos

2009

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood poster
4.4

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

Born to Be Wild poster
5.3

Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.

Born to Be Wild

1995

Micki & Maude poster
5.7

TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.

Micki & Maude

1984

The Curse of Inferno poster
5.0

A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.

The Curse of Inferno

1996

House Calls poster
6.4

Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.

House Calls

1978

S.O.B. poster
6.0

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

S.O.B.

1981

The Day Lincoln Was Shot poster
6.8

A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.

The Day Lincoln Was Shot

1998

Deadly Game poster
5.9

A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osirus and his hunters track them down and kill them.

Deadly Game

1991

End of the Road poster
5.1

Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.

End of the Road

1970

Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer poster
7.0

Wyler and associates take on the case of an admitted serial killer.

Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer

1997

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story poster
4.4

Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

1992

Malice in Wonderland poster
7.6

Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.

Malice in Wonderland

1985

Paramedics poster
3.1

Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.

Paramedics

1988

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry poster
6.8

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

1986

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family poster
5.0

Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family

1993

The Kid with the Broken Halo poster
6.7

Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one more shot. His mission: Help out the problems of three cases. First, the Desautel family, who are on the edge of breaking up. Then, the McNulty family, who are workaholics. Finally, Dorothea Powell who is a secluded, grumpy old woman. Andy's guide on earth is Blake, who is none too thrilled to work with Andy.

The Kid with the Broken Halo

1982

Murder in Paradise poster
5.0

A stressed-out, big-city cop seeks refuge in Hawaii, only to become embroiled in a serial murder case that appears to be identical to his last case in New York City.

Murder in Paradise

1990

Behind the camera