John C. Becher

John C. Becher

Birth : 1915-01-13, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Death : 1986-09-20

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John C. Becher

Movies

Say Yes
Bride's Father
A wealthy man leaves all his money to his grandson on the condition that he marries within 24 hours. If not the money will go to the boy's father...
Murphy's Romance
Jesse Parker
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
Mass Appeal
Mr. Jennings
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Gremlins
Dr. Molinaro
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Honky Tonk Freeway
Brandon C. Dasher
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Below the Belt
Promoter
A close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.
OHMS
Henry Lucker
A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.
You Can't Go Home Again
Minister
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
Too Far to Go
Judge
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Casting Director
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Up the Sandbox
Mr. Koerner
A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
A Christmas Festival
Officer Flannelly
A Christmas Festival was an annual television special by the anthology program Hallmark Hall of Fame. The 1959 event originally aired on December 13, 1959, and marked Elke Sommer's first appearance (in the role of The Princess) on American television.