Biography
Harve Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid 1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. His career reoriented away from classical music to musical theatre in 1960 after Meredith Willson cast him in the lead role of his new Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown. His portrayal of "Leadville Johnny" was a resounding success and he reprised the role in the 1964 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Love Ranch
2010
as Dr. Smathers
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
Bait Shop
2008
as Jack
Its Barbershop for Rednecks. Bill is a bait shop owner who has to make a balloon payment of $15,000 or else the bank will close his shop. Unable to ma...
Evan Almighty
2007
as Congressman Burrows
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Life After Tomorrow
2006
as Self
Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary.
Flags of Our Fathers
2006
as Dave Severance
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s...
Old School
2003
as Mr. Springbrook
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Mr. Deeds
2002
as Preston Blake
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different ki...
Super Sucker
2002
as Winslow Schnaebelt
Two door to door vaccuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other.
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001
as Mr. Parker
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make d...
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
2001
as Joe Kennedy
They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image b...
Escanaba in da Moonlight
2001
as Albert Soady
A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
The Pretender 2001
2001
as Mr. Parker
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing...
The Family Man
2000
as Big Ed
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning ...
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
as John Invergordon
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tourn...
Walking Across Egypt
1999
as Finner
An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.
Patch Adams
1998
as Dean Anderson
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa...
Saving Private Ryan
1998
as General Marshall
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Joh...
Everything That Rises
1998
as Garth
His son's critical injury forces a Montana man (Dennis Quaid) to reconsider priorities as he struggles to retain family land.
A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as MACV General
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advi...
Julian Po
1997
as Mayor Henry Leech
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out ...
Face/Off
1997
as Victor Lazarro
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns ...
Tidal Wave: No Escape
1997
as Stanley Schiff
A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the ...
The Chamber
1996
as Attorney General Roxburgh
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n...
The Whole Wide World
1996
as Dr. Howard
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction master Robert E. Howard is introduced to Novalyne Price, a teacher with aspirations of becoming an author herself, and th...
Larger Than Life
1996
as Trowbridge Bowers
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. One day,...
Fargo
1996
as Wade Gustafson
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife ...
That's Dancing!
1985
as From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30...
Blood Bath
1975
as Peter Brown
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
The Great Man's Whiskers
1972
as Ballad Singer
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Paint Your Wagon
1969
as "Rotten Luck Willie"
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a ...
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
as Danny Churchill
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
The Glory Guys
1965
as Sol Rogers
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a gene...
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964
as Johnny Brown
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures ...
The Story of a Dress
1964
as Self
This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s.