Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy

1914-02-15 Seattle, Washington, USA 100 Credits

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Kevin McCarthy (February 15, 1914 – September 11, 2010) was an American actor. He is best remembered as the male lead in the horror science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Following several television guest roles, McCarthy gave his first credited film performance in Death of a Salesman (1951), portraying Biff Loman to Fredric March's Willy Loman. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Description above from...

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Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

2014

as Self

6.0
Acting

From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red Scar...

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

2014

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.3
Acting

In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb ...

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

2012

as The Grand Inquisitor

6.2
Acting

A truly mad concoction, blending 1950s juvenile delinquents, sci-fi melodrama, song-and-dance, and a touch of horror, everything in just the right com...

Love Don't Come Easy

Love Don't Come Easy

2008

as Max

Acting

Nicolette wants her niece to love and live happily ever after with, Clay, the man that she has picked out for her. Nicolette has vowed to not let Nikk...

The Boneyard Collection

The Boneyard Collection

2008

as The Monk (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

5.3
Acting

A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock ba...

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

2007

as Pastor Waltz

3.0
Acting

When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell bloc...

Trail of the Screaming Forehead

Trail of the Screaming Forehead

2007

as Latecomer

4.9
Acting

A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to ex...

Loving Annabelle

Loving Annabelle

2007

as Father Harris

6.6
Acting

Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to ...

The Roots of Monty Python

The Roots of Monty Python

2005

as Self

Acting

A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

UnConventional

UnConventional

2004

as Self

3.5
Acting

Halloween 2003 marked the 13th anniversary of the Chiller Theatre Horror Movie Convention ... but there was nothing conventional about it. UnConventio...

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

2003

as Dr. Bennell

6.3
Acting

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a...

Making 'The Misfits'

Making 'The Misfits'

2002

as Self

Acting

A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

Addams Family Reunion

Addams Family Reunion

1998

as Grandpa Addams

4.8
Acting

The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives. Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover that Grandpa and Grandma Addams have a disease th...

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War

1997

as Chief of Staff

6.1
Acting

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the sta...

Elvis Meets Nixon

Elvis Meets Nixon

1997

as Deep Throat (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

Steal Big Steal Little

Steal Big Steal Little

1995

as Reed Tyler

4.3
Acting

Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but...

The Sister-in-Law

The Sister-in-Law

1995

as George Richards

4.0
Acting

A man finally meets his daughter-in-law for the first time when his son tragically dies. He and the rest of the family like her, but she has a deadly ...

Just Cause

Just Cause

1995

as Phil Prentiss

6.2
Acting

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific...

Judicial Consent

Judicial Consent

1994

as Judge Pollan

5.9
Acting

Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, wh...

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

1994

as Self

6.0
Acting

An examination of the craft of Marlon Brando, narrated by professionals of the film industry. The film follows his career from the stage with "A Stree...

Roadracers

Roadracers

1994

as Miles

5.9
Acting

Cynical look at a 1950s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.

Greedy

Greedy

1994

as Bartlett

6.2
Acting

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

Matinee

Matinee

1993

as General Ankrum

6.6
Acting

A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extr...

The Distinguished Gentleman

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992

as Terry Corrigan

6.1
Acting

A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected ...

Duplicates

Duplicates

1992

as Dr. Congemi

5.9
Acting

A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.

Final Approach

Final Approach

1991

as General Geller

6.0
Acting

Final Approach deals with the mental condition of Amnesia when a stealth test pilot, Col. Jason Halsey, is involved in an air disaster. A psychiatrist...

Dead on the Money

Dead on the Money

1991

as Waverly Blake

4.5
Acting

An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.

Eve of Destruction

Eve of Destruction

1991

as William Simmons (uncredited)

4.5
Acting

Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When she is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot becomes an unstop...

Fatal Charm

Fatal Charm

1990

Special Effects

5.4

Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women....

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College

1990

as Professor Ragnar

5.2
Acting

A college teacher brings the little creatures back to his campus, where they proceed to terrorize the faculty and students.

The Rose and the Jackal

The Rose and the Jackal

1990

as Senator Henry Wilson

2.0
Acting

Detective Allan Pinkerton, working for the Union, becomes obsessed with Southern socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a spy for the Confederacy.

The Sleeping Car

The Sleeping Car

1990

as Vincent Tuttle

4.7
Acting

Jason moves into an abandoned train car where he resurrects the vicious ghost of his landlady's dead husband... The Mister. After some near-fatal enco...

Love or Money

Love or Money

1990

as William Reed

4.1
Acting

A lucrative real estate deal, or romance with the boss' daughter--that's the dilemma facing a yuppie in this comedy.

UHF

UHF

1989

as R.J. Fletcher

6.7
Acting

The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.

Fast Food

Fast Food

1989

as Judge Reinholte

4.8
Acting

Auggie and his pals are living it up as perpetual college students. When the dean decides teh only way to stop their schemes and antics is to graduate...

Passion and Paradise

Passion and Paradise

1989

as Harold Christie

4.0
Acting

Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy British aristocrat is murdered by his son-in-law, revealing international intrigue and deception in the Bahamas before Worl...

The 'Burbs

The 'Burbs

1989

as Ray’s Boss (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to susp...

Once Upon a Texas Train

Once Upon a Texas Train

1988

as The Governor

5.4
Acting

Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry...

Channel 99

Channel 99

1988

Acting

Executive returns to her hometown to try to revive the local TV station which is struggling in the ratings.

Dark Tower

Dark Tower

1987

as Sergie

3.8
Acting

A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.

Creepy Classics

Creepy Classics

1987

as Dr. Miles J. Bennell - (archive footage)

6.3
Acting

A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

Hostage

Hostage

1987

as Col. Tim Shaw

7.0
Acting

The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to tr...

Innerspace

Innerspace

1987

as Victor Eugene Scrimshaw

6.8
Acting

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, J...

LBJ: The Early Years

LBJ: The Early Years

1987

as Billy Bob

7.5
Acting

LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United St...

A Masterpiece of Murder

1986

as Jonathan Hire

Acting

An over-the-hill gumshoe reluctantly teams with worldly retired master thief to solve a string of art thefts and murders.

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour

1985

as Judge Crandall

6.0
Acting

Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchf...

Deadly Intentions

Deadly Intentions

1985

as Reichman

6.4
Acting

Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take ...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers... An Interview with Kevin McCarthy

1985

Acting

This short interview segment is featured on the Republic Pictures DVD release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

The Ratings Game

The Ratings Game

1984

as Wes Vandergelder

5.7
Acting

A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.

Gremlins

Gremlins

1984

as Dr. Miles J. Bennell (Archive Footage)

7.1
Acting

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unlea...

Invitation to Hell

Invitation to Hell

1984

as Mr. Thompson

5.1
Acting

Family man Matt Winslow accepts a new job in Silicon Valley and quickly finds that his associates are obsessed with a mysterious local country club wh...

Making of a Male Model

Making of a Male Model

1983

as Ward Hawley

4.3
Acting

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Nevada. She can't help but notice his incredible go...

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983

as Uncle Walt

6.5
Acting

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 ...

My Tutor

My Tutor

1983

as Mr. Chrystal

5.0
Acting

High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive ...

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

1983

as Self

4.4
Acting

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretch...

Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story

Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story

1982

as Dr. Jones

Acting

The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.

The Howling

The Howling

1981

as Fred Francis

6.6
Acting

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they s...

Portrait of an Escort

Portrait of an Escort

1980

as Dr. Ken Paige

2.7
Acting

Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and ...

Those Lips, Those Eyes

Those Lips, Those Eyes

1980

as Mickey Bellinger

3.0
Acting

A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.

Flamingo Road

Flamingo Road

1980

as Claude Weldon

Acting

A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this p...

Hero at Large

Hero at Large

1980

as Calvin Donnelly

6.0
Acting

An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a sup...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1978

as Running Man

7.2
Acting

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers...

Piranha

Piranha

1978

as Dr. Robert Hoak

6.0
Acting

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

1977

as Tom Atherton

7.0
Acting

A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

Exo-Man

Exo-Man

1977

as Dist. Atty. Kamenski

4.3
Acting

A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

1976

as The Publicist (Maj. John Burke)

5.4
Acting

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden a...

Order to Kill

Order to Kill

1975

as Ed McLean

4.4
Acting

An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothin...

The Seagull

The Seagull

1975

as Trigorin

Acting

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konst...

Alien Thunder

Alien Thunder

1974

as Sgt. Malcolm Grant

5.3
Acting

Saskatchewan, Canada, late 19th century. The negligence of Dan Candy, sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, allows Almighty Voice, a young Cr...

June Moon

June Moon

1974

as Hart

Acting

In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.

A Great American Tragedy

1972

as Mark Reynolds

6.7
Acting

A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a ba...

Kansas City Bomber

Kansas City Bomber

1972

as Burt Henry

5.9
Acting

Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Richard

Richard

1972

as Washington Doctor

6.0
Acting

A satirical biopic of a fictional US president Richard, who in many ways intentionally resembles the then-current real life U.S. president, Richard Ni...

Between Time and Timbuktu

Between Time and Timbuktu

1972

as Bokonon

8.0
Acting

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of ...

Operation Heartbeat

Operation Heartbeat

1969

as Clifford Coswell

Acting

Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and ...

If He Hollers, Let Him Go!

If He Hollers, Let Him Go!

1968

as Leslie Whitlock

5.4
Acting

James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James m...

Ace High

Ace High

1968

as Drake

6.5
Acting

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their hor...

The Hell with Heroes

The Hell with Heroes

1968

as Col. Wilson

5.2
Acting

In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian...

Ghostbreakers

Ghostbreakers

1967

as Cameron Witherspoon

2.0
Acting

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.

Hotel

Hotel

1967

as Curtis O'Keefe

6.1
Acting

This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock...

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966

as Otto Habershaw

7.1
Acting

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose ...

The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters

1966

as Vershinin

Acting

In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Mosco...

Mirage

Mirage

1965

as Sylvester Josephson

7.0
Acting

In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and w...

The Best Man

The Best Man

1964

as Dick Jensen

7.3
Acting

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-ru...

The Prize

The Prize

1963

as John Garrett

6.8
Acting

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now ...

An Affair of the Skin

An Affair of the Skin

1963

as Allen McCleod

Acting

A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.

A Gathering of Eagles

A Gathering of Eagles

1963

as Gen. 'Happy Jack' Kirby

5.4
Acting

Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspect...

40 Pounds of Trouble

40 Pounds of Trouble

1962

as Louie Blanchard

5.4
Acting

Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

The Misfits

The Misfits

1961

as Raymond Taber

6.9
Acting

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviato...

Summer of Decision

1959

as Mr. Rogers

Acting

A college student trying to decide on a career spends the summer before his senior year assisting social workers.

Diamond Safari

Diamond Safari

1958

as Harry Jordan

Acting

A U.S. private eye falls for a smuggler and clears a native for murder in South Africa.

Nightmare

Nightmare

1956

as Stan Grayson

5.9
Acting

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the drea...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1956

as Dr. Miles J. Bennell

7.5
Acting

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

An Annapolis Story

An Annapolis Story

1955

as Jim Scott

3.3
Acting

Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.

Stranger on Horseback

Stranger on Horseback

1955

as Tom Bannerman

5.4
Acting

A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the ...

Satins and Spurs

Satins and Spurs

1954

as Tony

Acting

A rodeo performer at a show in Madison Square Garden falls for a handsome photographer who's been assigned to do a story on the show for Life Magazine...

The Gambler from Natchez

The Gambler from Natchez

1954

as Andre Rivage

6.8
Acting

A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.

Drive a Crooked Road

Drive a Crooked Road

1954

as Steve Norris

6.1
Acting

A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1952

as Rochester

4.0
Acting

Adaptation of the classic novel.

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

1951

as Biff Loman

6.9
Acting

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's ...