Biography
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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Complete Filmography

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
2014
as Self
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
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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
2012
as The Grand Inquisitor
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
2008
as Max
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
2008
as The Monk (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
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
2007
as Pastor Waltz
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
2007
as Latecomer
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
2007
as Father Harris
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
2005
as Self
A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

UnConventional
2004
as Self
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
2003
as Dr. Bennell
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'
2002
as Self
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

Addams Family Reunion
1998
as Grandpa Addams
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
1997
as Chief of Staff
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
1997
as Deep Throat (uncredited)
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

Steal Big Steal Little
1995
as Reed Tyler
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
1995
as George Richards
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
1995
as Phil Prentiss
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
1994
as Judge Pollan
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
1994
as Self
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
1994
as Miles
Cynical look at a 1950s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.

Greedy
1994
as Bartlett
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

Matinee
1993
as General Ankrum
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
1992
as Terry Corrigan
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
1992
as Dr. Congemi
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.

Final Approach
1991
as General Geller
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
1991
as Waverly Blake
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.

Eve of Destruction
1991
as William Simmons (uncredited)
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
1990
Special Effects
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
1990
as Professor Ragnar
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
1990
as Senator Henry Wilson
Detective Allan Pinkerton, working for the Union, becomes obsessed with Southern socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a spy for the Confederacy.

The Sleeping Car
1990
as Vincent Tuttle
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
1990
as William Reed
A lucrative real estate deal, or romance with the boss' daughter--that's the dilemma facing a yuppie in this comedy.

UHF
1989
as R.J. Fletcher
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
1989
as Judge Reinholte
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
1989
as Harold Christie
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
1989
as Ray’s Boss (uncredited)
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
1988
as The Governor
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
1988
Executive returns to her hometown to try to revive the local TV station which is struggling in the ratings.

Dark Tower
1987
as Sergie
A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.

Creepy Classics
1987
as Dr. Miles J. Bennell - (archive footage)
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

Hostage
1987
as Col. Tim Shaw
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
1987
as Victor Eugene Scrimshaw
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
1987
as Billy Bob
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
An over-the-hill gumshoe reluctantly teams with worldly retired master thief to solve a string of art thefts and murders.

The Midnight Hour
1985
as Judge Crandall
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
1985
as Reichman
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
This short interview segment is featured on the Republic Pictures DVD release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

The Ratings Game
1984
as Wes Vandergelder
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.

Gremlins
1984
as Dr. Miles J. Bennell (Archive Footage)
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
1984
as Mr. Thompson
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
1983
as Ward Hawley
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
1983
as Uncle Walt
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
1983
as Mr. Chrystal
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
1983
as Self
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
1982
as Dr. Jones
The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.

The Howling
1981
as Fred Francis
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
1980
as Dr. Ken Paige
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
1980
as Mickey Bellinger
A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.

Flamingo Road
1980
as Claude Weldon
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
1980
as Calvin Donnelly
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
1978
as Running Man
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
1978
as Dr. Robert Hoak
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
1977
as Tom Atherton
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

Exo-Man
1977
as Dist. Atty. Kamenski
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
1976
as The Publicist (Maj. John Burke)
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
1975
as Ed McLean
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
1975
as Trigorin
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
1974
as Sgt. Malcolm Grant
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
1974
as Hart
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
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
1972
as Burt Henry
Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Richard
1972
as Washington Doctor
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
1972
as Bokonon
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
1969
as Clifford Coswell
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!
1968
as Leslie Whitlock
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
1968
as Drake
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
1968
as Col. Wilson
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
1967
as Cameron Witherspoon
A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.

Hotel
1967
as Curtis O'Keefe
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
1966
as Otto Habershaw
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
1966
as Vershinin
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
1965
as Sylvester Josephson
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
1964
as Dick Jensen
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
1963
as John Garrett
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
1963
as Allen McCleod
A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.

A Gathering of Eagles
1963
as Gen. 'Happy Jack' Kirby
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
1962
as Louie Blanchard
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

The Misfits
1961
as Raymond Taber
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
A college student trying to decide on a career spends the summer before his senior year assisting social workers.

Diamond Safari
1958
as Harry Jordan
A U.S. private eye falls for a smuggler and clears a native for murder in South Africa.

Nightmare
1956
as Stan Grayson
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
1956
as Dr. Miles J. Bennell
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

An Annapolis Story
1955
as Jim Scott
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.

Stranger on Horseback
1955
as Tom Bannerman
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
1954
as Tony
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
1954
as Andre Rivage
A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.

Drive a Crooked Road
1954
as Steve Norris
A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.

Jane Eyre
1952
as Rochester
Adaptation of the classic novel.

Death of a Salesman
1951
as Biff Loman
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 ...