James O'Rear
Know for: Acting
Born: 1914-01-04
Place of birth: Frankfort, Indiana, USA
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Chinatown (1974)
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to...
Over-Exposed (1956)
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an...
Dear Heart (1965)
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Conrack (1974)
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor...
Julius Caesar (1955)
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and his fellow Senators has tragic consequences for the idealist and the...
The Story on Page One (1959)
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Brute Force (1947)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of...
The Sea of Grass (1947)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
The Bait (1973)
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and...
Bus Stop (1956)
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to...
Criss Cross (1949)
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early...
Mister Buddwing (1966)
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.