Ben Hammer

Acting

Ben Hammer

Born 1925-12-08 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Acting credits

Sleepers poster
7.6

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Sleepers

1996

Mannequin poster
6.9

Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.

Mannequin

1987

The Wizard of Lies poster
6.6

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

The Wizard of Lies

2017

The Beastmaster poster
6.3

Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.

The Beastmaster

1982

Jagged Edge poster
6.2

After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.

Jagged Edge

1985

Johnny Got His Gun poster
7.5

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

Johnny Got His Gun

1971

Subterfuge poster
7.0

Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that crashed under mysterious circumstances into the Black Sea. With his computer-hacker younger brother, Slade travels to a resort on the Russian-Turkish border to begin his quest. To his surprise and dismay, he's now joined by another secret agent, a beautiful but highly-skilled woman named Alex. As they begin diving in search of the downed jetliner, Slade and Alex begin to suspect they're being manipulated by higher-ups who may not be committed to American interests.

Subterfuge

1996

Invasion of the Bee Girls poster
4.7

A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.

Invasion of the Bee Girls

1973

Crazy People poster
5.9

A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.

Crazy People

1990

Victory at Entebbe poster
5.1

The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.

Victory at Entebbe

1976

Survival Quest poster
5.6

A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.

Survival Quest

1989

To Dust poster
5.5

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

To Dust

2019

The Execution of Private Slovik poster
7.4

The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

The Execution of Private Slovik

1974

Millions poster
3.8

A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.

Millions

1991

The Competition poster
6.1

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?

The Competition

1980

The Marcus-Nelson Murders poster
7.6

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

Griffin and Phoenix poster
5.3

Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.

Griffin and Phoenix

1976

Street Killing poster
10.0

In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord.

Street Killing

1976

Confessions of a Married Man poster
9.0

A middle-aged man suffering from boredom selfishly walks out on his wife and family in search of excitement and adventure. Before he snaps out of his male-menopause moment, he has a brief affair with a much-younger woman named Jennifer.

Confessions of a Married Man

1983

Advice to the Lovelorn poster
5.0

A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.

Advice to the Lovelorn

1981

Haunts poster
5.0

A woman is haunted by psychosexual nightmares while a maniac commits a series of brutal scissor murders. The local smalltown sheriff must find the connection before it's too late.

Haunts

1976

Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot poster
6.0

Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department in this feature-length pilot that sparked the popular, long-running series.

Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot

1981

The Impersonation Murder Case poster
NR

A woman's husband is shot to death by her long-lost stepson who has assumed another identity.

The Impersonation Murder Case

1975