Biography
Lionel Stander was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart
1995
as Max
Set in San Francisco, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart are faced with the prospect of being reunited with Jonathan's long lost sister, and her nephew. Is it...

The Last Good Time
1994
as Howard Singer
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who ...

Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
1994
as Max
The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or a...

Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
1994
as Max
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But...

Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
1994
as Max
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly imm...

Hart to Hart Returns
1993
as Max
Jonathan Hart, the wealthy entrepreneur, and his charming investigative reporter wife, Jennifer, once again get caught up in a mystery, this time invo...

Cookie
1989
as Enzo Della Testa
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, ...

Wicked Stepmother
1989
as Sam
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in ...

BelliFreschi
1987
as Frank Santamaria
Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to h...

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

The Transformers: The Movie
1986
as Kup (voice)
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselve...

1941
1979
as Angelo Scioli
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Hart to Hart
1979
as Max
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. The...

The Squeeze
1978
as Sam
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.

Cyclone
1978
as Taylor
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve t...

Matilda
1978
as Pinky Schwab
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

New York, New York
1977
as Tony Harwell
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long up...

The Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Max, the Train Conductor
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
as Don Gervasio

The Black Bird
1975
as Gordon Immerman
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop ...

Who's Afraid of Zorro
1975
as Father Donato
Spain, occupied by the French. Zorro, the intrepid swordsman, has an accident. As a result, his friend, Father Donato, is forced by oath to find a tem...

Red Coat
1975
as Docteur Higgins
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed....

The Novice
1975
as Don Nini
A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the...

The Way of the Baboons
1974
as Fiorenza's father
In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On t...

Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
1974
as Count Eliogabalo di Tarcento / fake gardener Elia
Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywir...

Innocence and Desire
1974
as Salvatore Niscemi
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

The Sensual Man
1973
as Baron Castorini
The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of al...

My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure
1973
as Il marchese Cavalcanti / Il cardinale di Ragusa
In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; ...

The Black Hand
1973
as Lieutenant Giuseppe Petrosino
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself ...

Increase and Multiply
1973
as Commendator Zullin
Italian comedy

Dirty Weekend
1973
as General
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as...

1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
1973
as Sparks
In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them - killed in a clash - de...

Halleluja to Vera Cruz
1973
as Sam 'Tonaca"' Thompson
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
as Mangiafoco
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro ...

Father Jackleg
1972
as Stinky Manure
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a ...

Pulp
1972
as Ben Dinuccio
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Treasure Island
1972
as Billy Bones
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert L...

Don Camillo and the Contestants
1972
as Peppone
Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece ...

The Eroticist
1972
as Cardinal Maravigli
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in quest...

Caliber 9
1972
as L'Americano / The Mikado
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangster...

Where the Bullets Fly
1972
as Lucky Capone
Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the...

We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971
as Baccala
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
1971
as Katanga
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of ...

Between Miracles
1971
as Oreste
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and mad...

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
1970
as The Admiral
Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who ...

Boot Hill
1969
as Zirkusdirektor Mimi
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers

Zenabel
1969
as Pancrazio
Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who was killed by a ruthless don, A...

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
1969
as Don Tosello
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice:...

H2S
1969
as The Professor
Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then ret...

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Innkeeper
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the ...

Gates to Paradise
1968
as The Monk
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocenc...

Seven Times Seven
1968
as Sam
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.

Beyond the Law
1968
as Preacher
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

A Dandy in Aspic
1968
as Sobakevich
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is ...

Cul-de-sac
1966
as Richard
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a...

Promise Her Anything
1966
as Sam
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is he...

The Loved One
1965
as The Guru Brahmin ("Hump")
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp...
The Pistol
1965
as General Burroughs
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Moving Finger
1963
as Anatole
A rare beatnik artifact of the early 1960s, one of only a few such films made before the hippies took over Hollywood. Low budget and in b&w, it's ...

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...

Blast of Silence
1961
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet ...

St. Benny the Dip
1951
as Monk Williams
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having a...

Two Gals and a Guy
1951
as Mr. Seymour
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.

Two Gals and a Guy
1951
Dialogue Coach
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.

Wild and Woody!
1948
as Buzz Buzzard (voice)
Woody Woodpecker gallops into a wild western town, which can't keep a sheriff very long due to the notorious outlaw (and sheriff-killer) Buzz Buzzard....

Unfaithfully Yours
1948
as Hugo Standoff
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his ...

Trouble Makers
1948
as 'Hatchet' Moran
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.

Wet Blanket Policy
1948
as Buzz Buzzard (voice)
Woody Woodpecker buys life insurance with the beneficiary being Buzz Buzzard who wants to collect early.

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Bellhop
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and ...

Call Northside 777
1948
as Wiecek's Cellmate Corrigan (uncredited)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal t...

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
as Max
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, de...

Fair Weather Fiends
1946
as Wolfie Wolf (voice)
After a storm strands them on a deserted island, Woody Woodpecker and his wolf friend end up battling themselves in a quest to find food.

Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946
as Harry Mitchell
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign t...

Specter of the Rose
1946
as Lionel Gans
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.

A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
1946
as Jim
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a los...

Who's Cookin Who?
1946
as Wolfie Wolf (voice)
Woody Woodpecker is sleeping. He awakens, under a blanket of snow, to find that both Winter and a hungry wolf are knocking at his door. The wolf has i...

In Old Sacramento
1946
as Eddie Dodge
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his dou...

Apple Andy
1946
as Devil
Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him in...

The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
as Spider Schultz
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspaper...

The Loose Nut
1945
as Construction Worker (voice)
Woody Woodpecker goes to the park for a game of golf, and quickly gets at odds with some workers who are laying a cement walk.

Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
as (uncredited)
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

The Big Show-Off
1945
as Joe Bagley
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).

Guadalcanal Diary
1943
as Sgt. Butch
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalca...

Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Banya
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprote...

Tahiti Honey
1943
as Pinkie
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the...

What a Life
1939
as Ferguson
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939
as Himself (uncredited)
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.

The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
as Mort Hodges
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,...

The Crowd Roars
1938
as 'Happy' Lane
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy do...

Professor Beware
1938
as Jerry
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...

No Time to Marry
1938
as Al Vogel
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop...

The Last Gangster
1937
as Curly
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and m...

The League of Frightened Men
1937
as Archie Goodwin
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.

A Star Is Born
1937
as Matt Libby
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...

He Was Her Man
1937
as Johnny Mouse (voice)
A Depression-era female mouse has to sell apples in the miserable cold, and then bring them home to her abusive husband. But when he abandons her and ...

More Than a Secretary
1936
as Ernest
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn...

They Met in a Taxi
1936
as Fingers Garrison
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.

Meet Nero Wolfe
1936
as Archie Goodwin
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwo...

I'm a Big Shot Now
1936
as Gangster Bird (voice)
A tough bird proclaims his hatred of cops, with serious consequences.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
as Cornelius Cobb
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi...

The Music Goes 'Round
1936
as O'Casey
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showbo...

The Milky Way
1936
as Spider Schultz
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in ...

Soak the Rich
1936
as Muglia
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.

If You Could Only Cook
1935
as Flash
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

I Live My Life
1935
as Yaffitz, Bridge Player
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

The Gay Deception
1935
as Gettel
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seem...

Page Miss Glory
1935
as Nick Papadopolis
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

We're in the Money
1935
as Butch Gonzola
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve fou...

Hooray for Love
1935
as Chowsky
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his da...

The Scoundrel
1935
as Rothenstien
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a mont...

The Old Grey Mayor
1935
as Alderman Tom Mulligan
Bob Hope wants to marry the mayor's daughter, but the mayor doesn't want his daughter to marry Bob Hope.

Smoked Hams
1934
as Mr. Ivanitch
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.

I Scream
1934
as Micky Moran
Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.

Pugs and Kisses
1934
as Slug Mosconi
A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.

Mushrooms
1934
as Bertram
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.

Howd' Ya Like That?
1934
as Customs Officer
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting i...

In the Dough
1933
as Toots (uncredited)
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.

Salt Water Daffy
1933
as Chief Petty Officer Lambert
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
Freshman Love
1931
as Letter Writer
In this 100% fictional-plot short a fictional freshman, played by an actor named Don Tomkins), becomes smitten with and writes letters to a singer, Ru...