Fred Gwynne’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Fred Gwynne has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by My Cousin Vinny.
Recurring themes

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
1985
Adventure · Drama

Star 80
1983
Drama

The Seventh Sign
1988
Horror · Drama

Christine
1983
Horror

The Changeling
1980
Horror

Death Watch
1980
Drama · Science Fiction

At Close Range
1986
Crime · Drama

Incubus
1982
Horror · Thriller

Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
Dir. Mary Lambert · With Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
Dir. Chris Hayward, Bob Mosher, Allan Burns · With Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Butch Patrick

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
Dir. Héctor Babenco · With Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker

Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
Dir. Nick Castle · With Lucy Deakins, Jay Underwood, Fred Savage
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazăr