Wesley Lau

Wesley Lau

Birth : 1921-06-18, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA

Death : 1984-08-30

Profile

Wesley Lau

Movies

Lepke
Writer
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.
Homebodies
Construction Foreman
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
Cry Panic
Joe Red
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
Call to Danger
A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and held in a heavily fortified compound.
Incident on a Dark Street
John Pine
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
No Place to Run
Bill Ryan
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
Crosscurrent
Inspector Poole
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Zabriskie Point
Company Executive (uncredited)
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Journey to Shiloh
Colonel Boykin
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
The Venetian Affair
Neill Carlson
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
The Alamo
Emil
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
I Want to Live!
Henry L. Graham
Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.