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Ben Piazza

Ben Piazza

Highest Rated: 97% The Bad News Bears (1976)

Lowest Rated: 22% Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)

Birthday: Jul 30, 1933

Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Reliable, fair-haired stage actor, noted for his starring performances in Edward Albee's "American Dream" and "The Zoo Story" in the early 1960s. Piazza made his film debut in Sidney Furie's "A Dangerous Age" (1957) and portrayed studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck in "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991). Piazza also wrote plays and a novel, "The Exact and Very Strange Truth," which was published in 1964.

Highest rated movies

97% The Bad News Bears
86% The Hanging Tree
83% The Candy Snatchers
68% Guilty by Suspicion
33% Nightwing
22% Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Photos

THE HANGING TREE, Ben Piazza, 1959 THE HANGING TREE, standing left from second from left: Gary Cooper, Ben Piazza, Karl Swenson, Maria Schell (lying down), 1959 THE HANGING TREE, from left: Ben Piazza, Maria Schell, 1959 THE HANGING TREE, Maria Schell, Ben Piazza, 1959 GUILTY BY SUSPICION, Ben Piazza, Robert De Niro, 1991

Filmography

Movies

Credit
68% 55% Guilty by Suspicion Darryl Zanuck (Character) $8.4M 1991
No Score Yet 40% Consenting Adult Dr. Mark Waldo (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 67% Waltz Across Texas Unknown (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Winter of Our Discontent Louis Brock (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 86% The Wall Janta (Character) - 1982
33% 26% Nightwing Roger Piggott (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet When Every Day Was the Fourth of July Herman Grasser (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 100% Kill Me if You Can Bill Edmunds (Character) - 1977
97% 80% The Bad News Bears Councilman Whitewood (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fear on Trial Harry (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 20% Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley Unknown (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fer de Lance Lieutenant Whitehead (Character) - 1974
83% 60% The Candy Snatchers Avery (Character) - 1974
22% 12% Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Jesse (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Exit Camarero (Character) - 1962
86% 73% The Hanging Tree Rune (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Dangerous Age David (Character) - 1959

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 86% Beauty and the Beast Richards (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock Unknown (Guest Star) 1987 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jake and the Fatman Unknown (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dynasty Dr. Charles Hampton (Guest Star) 1988-1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Belvedere Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Facts of Life Dean Howard Jones (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet 88% Family Ties Unknown (Guest Star) 1984-1985
No Score Yet 70% The A-Team City Councilman Michael Prescott (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dallas Unknown (Guest Star) 1982-1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barney Miller David Shulton (Guest Star) 1980-1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hart to Hart Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nero Wolfe Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files Stan Belding (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Irving Abernathy (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bionic Woman Warren Rayker (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barnaby Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Fifer (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry O Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Waltons Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mod Squad Dr. Ed Chase (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Harry (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Blaine Hagerman (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Dr. Mike Rogers (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Unknown (Character) 1959