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Patrick McVey is a Actor American born on 17 march 1910 at Fort Wayne (USA)
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Filmography of Patrick McVey (31 films)
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Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
, 1h36Directed by John D. Hancock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster, Barton Heyman, Danny Aiello
Roles Bruce's Father
Rating67%
Henry Wiggen is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths, a fictitious Major League Baseball team. He is a valuable player to his manager Dutch but is in a dispute with the team's ownership, holding out for a new contract and more money. Henry also has a sideline as an insurance salesman working for the Arcturus Corporation, with ballplayers as his clients.
Top of the Heap (1972)
, 1h34Directed by Christopher St. John
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Christopher St. John, Paula Kelly, John Alderson, Patrick McVey, Allen Garfield, Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Roles Tim Cassidy
Rating62%
The Visitors (1972)
, 1h30Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Patrick McVey, James Woods, Steve Railsback
Roles Harry Wayne
Rating62%
Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Martha's overbearing father. One snowy winter Sunday, two of Bill's ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A few years ago, they had all served together in Vietnam in the same platoon but later ended up on opposite sides of a court-martial. Bill has never told his girlfriend what happened in Vietnam nor at the court-martial. The story slowly unfolds. Under orders in Vietnam not to take any prisoners, and faced with potentially hostile civilians who might attack them if left behind, Mike kills a civilian. Bill testifies against him and Mike is sent to the stockade (military prison) for two years. He is angry. There is sexual tension between Mike and Martha. The tension builds and culminates in a fight and a rape.
Desperate Characters (1971)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Carol Kane, Michael Higgins
Roles Mr. Haynes
Rating61%
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless. The film details their fragile emotional and psychological states as they interact with each other and their friends.
The Detective (1968)
, 1h54Directed by Gordon Douglas, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, LGBT-related films, Films about capital punishment, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, William Windom
Roles Police Officer Mike Tanner
Rating64%
New York City police detective Joe Leland is called to the home of a murder victim who has been beaten to death and has had his genitals removed. Puzzled and disgusted, the police on call are left bemused, Leland holding things together with his direct, no-nonsense approach.
North by Northwest (1959)
, 2h16Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Sol Gorss, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Sergeant Flamm
Rating82%
Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein), who take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm's "associate" Leonard (Martin Landau) intends to get rid of Thornhill once they finish questioning him.
Party Girl (1958)
, 1h39Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
Roles Detective O'Malley
Rating69%
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending Chicago mobsters in court. At a party for mob boss Rico Angelo, he meets chorus girl Vicki Gaye, who accepted $100 to attend the party and another $400 from another gangster, Louis Canetto, from his gambling winnings.
The Big Caper (1957)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory, Corey Allen, Paul Picerni, Robert H. Harris
Roles Sam Loxley
Rating64%
His portion of the loot from a recent heist squandered, minor-league criminal Frank Harper talks his boss, Flood, into a more lucrative project: on the weekend before a Monday payday, break into a San Felipe, California bank, which will be holding a million-dollar payroll for the Marine Base at Camp Pendleton. Flood plans the operation, sending his moll Kay with Frank to become established in the community at San Felipe and to lay the groundwork for the heist.
Dark Passage (1947)
, 1h46Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy
Roles Impatient Cabbie (uncredited)
Rating74%
Vincent Parry, a man convicted of killing his wife, escapes from San Quentin prison by stowing away in a supply truck. He evades police and hitches a ride with a passing motorist named Baker. Parry's odd clothes and a news report on the radio about an escaped convict make Baker suspicious. When questioned, Parry beats him unconscious. Irene Jansen, who had been painting nearby, picks up Parry and smuggles him past a police roadblock into San Francisco, offering him shelter in her apartment.
Welcome Stranger (1947)
, 1h47Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Wanda Hendrix, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Faylen
Roles Ed Chanock
Rating67%
Crusty Dr. McRory (Barry Fitzgerald) of Fallbridge, Maine, hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson (Bing Crosby) don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, once he meets teacher Trudy Mason (Joan Caulfield). The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancée. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy.
The Show-Off (1946)
, 1h23Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marjorie Main, Marshall Thompson, George Cleveland, Virginia O'Brien
Rating60%
Amy Fisher's parents can't understand what their daughter sees in Aubrey Piper, a loudmouth and braggart who pretends to be more than the lowly clerk he is.
Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
, 1h30Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, S.Z. Sakall, Lauren Bacall
Roles Johnson (as Pat McVey)
Rating63%
The Balkan Prince Henry arrives to Pennsylvania Station in New York City to do some research on how the "ordinary" man lives and works. Since his travel companions are unaware of his bold plan, he has to sneak away unseen to escape them. He catches a taxi outside the station, and gets to know the driver, Buzz Williams.
Swell Guy (1946)
Directed by Frank Tuttle
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sonny Tufts, Ann Blyth, Ruth Warrick, William Gargan, Mary Nash, Thomas Gomez
Roles Ray Link.
Rating69%
Almost no one in his California hometown knows what a scoundrel and cad Jim Duncan is. He has been away working as a war correspondent, but has lost his job and abandoned a wife.
The Brute Man (1946)
, 58minutesDirected by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Rondo Hatton, Jane Adams, Poni Adams, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley, Donald MacBride
Roles Detective at Helen's Apartment (uncredited)
Rating44%
The police investigate a string of murders committed by the Creeper (Rondo Hatton), a mysterious killer with a hideously disfigured face. The Creeper attacks and murders Professor Cushman (John Hamilton), a professor from the nearby Hampton University. Later that night, the killer approaches a woman named Joan Bemis (Janelle Johnson) in front of her home and identifies himself as Hal Moffet. Joan screams hysterically at the sight of him until he is driven to kill her. When police cars approach, the Creeper climbs the fire escape of a city tenement building to escape and enters the apartment of Helen Paige (Jane Adams), a blind pianist. Unable to see the Creeper's deformed face, Helen is not afraid of the intruder, even when he admits he is fleeing from the police. When officers knock on her door, Helen encourages him to hide in her bedroom, where he escapes through the window.
No Time for Love (1943)
, 1h23Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath, June Havoc
Roles City Chief Engineer
Rating67%
Mirror magazine's top photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) is assigned to photograph the Interborough Vehicular River Tunnel project in New York City. Wearing a hardhat and boots, the beautiful photographer is taken underground to the construction site where she is not greeted warmly by the superstitious tunnel workers, called "sandhogs", who believe that women in the tunnel bring bad luck. When she sneaks closer to the drilling point to get a better view, her presence distracts some of the workers and causes an accident that nearly kills Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray), the cocky well-built sandhog they call "Superman". When she sees the unconscious Ryan about to be crushed by a machine, she drags him to safety.