Dick Wesson

Acting

Dick Wesson

Born 1922-11-19 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Acting credits

Calamity Jane poster
7.0

Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.

Calamity Jane

1953

Rollercoaster poster
6.0

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.

Rollercoaster

1977

The Errand Boy poster
6.2

Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.

The Errand Boy

1961

The Desert Song poster
6.8

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.

The Desert Song

1953

Jim Thorpe – All-American poster
6.5

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

Jim Thorpe – All-American

1951

The Man Behind The Gun poster
6.0

This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.

The Man Behind The Gun

1953

Destination Moon poster
5.9

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.

Destination Moon

1950

Force of Arms poster
6.7

During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful.

Force of Arms

1951

The Goofy Success Story poster
6.4

A look at Goofy's rise to stardom, leading into several of his cartoons-Moving Day, Moose Hunters, How to Ride a Horse, and Motor Mania.

The Goofy Success Story

1955

The Charge at Feather River poster
5.9

A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.

The Charge at Feather River

1953

Starlift poster
6.6

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

Starlift

1951

Dog and Cat poster
NR

A veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned to discover that the new partner he is assigned is not only a rookie, but a female.

Dog and Cat

1977

Breakthrough poster
7.0

Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.

Breakthrough

1950

Sunny Side of the Street poster
8.0

A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.

Sunny Side of the Street

1951

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison poster
6.6

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

1951

Paris Follies of 1956 poster
8.0

Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.

Paris Follies of 1956

1955

About Face poster
5.0

Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.

About Face

1952

On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends poster
6.5

Walt Disney, who is on vacation, gives Jiminy Cricket a phone call to take over hosting duties for one TV episode while he is away. Jiminy decides to gather the other Disney stars together to help him out. Unfortunately, they, too, are on vacation, but how they are spending their respective vacations helps put the show together for him.

On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends

1956

Behind the camera