William Devane’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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William Devane has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Marathon Man.
Recurring themes

Flic Story
1975
Crime · Thriller

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
Drama · Action

The Brave One
2007
Crime · Drama

Maria Full of Grace
2004
Drama · Thriller

Reservation Road
2007
Drama · Crime

Shinjuku Incident
2009
Drama · Action

Sin Nombre
2009
Drama · Action

Felon
2008
Crime · Drama

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Dir. Martin Wood · With Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland

Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in Paradise on their own. Jesse pours his energy into his work in an effort to push away his twin demons: booze and women. When his investigation leads to notorious mob boss Gino Fish, Jesse's pursuit becomes hazardous.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
Dir. Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow · With Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
Dir. John Flynn · With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes

Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises, unlikely suspects and grave danger. Though it's widely believed the murder was committed by an incarcerated serial killer, Jesse suspects another killer is at large and is hell-bent on bringing him to justice.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, William Devane, Gloria Reuben

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Dir. Lynne Littman · With Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin
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