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Lionel Stander has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Funny Girl
1968
Comedy · Drama

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Cul-de-sac
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Prime Video · Included

A Star Is Born
1937 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Cassandra Crossing
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 53%Prime Video · Included

Hart to Hart
1979 · Series · Actor
Top 95%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Dir. Fernando Di Leo · With Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
Dir. Preston Sturges · With Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Dir. William A. Wellman · With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi · With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
Dir. Sidney Sheldon · With Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander