Ben Piazza

Acting

Ben Piazza

Born 1934-07-30 · Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Acting credits

The Blues Brothers poster
7.7

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

The Blues Brothers

1980

Mask poster
7.3

A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Mask

1985

Guilty by Suspicion poster
6.5

Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.

Guilty by Suspicion

1991

The Bad News Bears poster
6.9

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

The Bad News Bears

1976

Nightwing poster
4.9

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

Nightwing

1979

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden poster
5.9

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977

Fear on Trial poster
9.0

The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.

Fear on Trial

1975

The Hanging Tree poster
6.7

Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.

The Hanging Tree

1959

The Outside Man poster
6.2

A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.

The Outside Man

1972

Consenting Adult poster
6.0

Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.

Consenting Adult

1985

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon poster
5.5

The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

1970

The Last Song poster
8.0

An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.

The Last Song

1980

Grace Kelly poster
6.4

The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movie star.

Grace Kelly

1983

A Matter of Life and Death poster
8.0

The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.

A Matter of Life and Death

1981

The Candy Snatchers poster
6.4

A nonverbal autistic boy stumbles upon a teenage heiress who has been kidnapped by a trio of young psychopaths, who are intent on extorting diamonds from her stepfather.

The Candy Snatchers

1973

The Five of Me poster
9.3

Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.

The Five of Me

1981

When Every Day Was the Fourth of July poster
8.0

A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.

When Every Day Was the Fourth of July

1978

The Winter of Our Discontent poster
5.3

This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.

The Winter of Our Discontent

1983

The Children of An Lac poster
6.4

Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.

The Children of An Lac

1980

Fer-de-Lance poster
5.4

An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.

Fer-de-Lance

1974

No Exit poster
4.8

The Valet enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano and Estelle Rigault, are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

No Exit

1962

Kill Me If You Can poster
NR

The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

Kill Me If You Can

1977

The Murder That Wouldn't Die poster
4.3

William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

1980

The Western: A Lost TV Special poster
NR

A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and more.

The Western: A Lost TV Special

1958