The best Robert Earl Jones’s movies

Robert Earl Jones

Robert Earl Jones

03/02/1910- 07/09/2006
We present our ranking of the best Robert Earl Jones’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Robert Earl Jones.
Genre:
Available on:

Trading Places

Trading Places
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1983
  • Character: Attendant
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

The Sting

The Sting
8.3/10
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

The Cotton Club

The Cotton Club
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/12/1984
  • Character: Stage Door Joe
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

Sleepaway Camp

Sleepaway Camp
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 18/11/1983
  • Character: Ben
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.

Witness

Witness
7.4/10
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

Maniac Cop 2

Maniac Cop 2
5.9/10
A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.

Proof of the Man

Proof of the Man
6.6/10
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.

Wild River

Wild River
7.5/10
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

One Potato, Two Potato

One Potato, Two Potato
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: William Richards
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.

Cockfighter

Cockfighter
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1974
  • Character: Buford
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
1.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 10/01/1992
  • Character: Ben (archive footage)
In the forest, she is grabbed by two large hands. Expecting the hands to be Jack's, she is surprised to meet Eugene (John Gallhager), a large, oafish hunter. After the enraged Alison explains her situation with Jack to him, Eugene vows to help her "take care" of him. Eugene has reasons of his own for disliking Jack - being a hunter. Jack has always tried to keep him off the property which Eugene's family has hunted on for generations.

Lying Lips

Lying Lips
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/01/1939
  • Character: Detective Wenzer
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.

Cold River

Cold River
5.6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 01/03/1982
  • Character: The Trapper
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.

Terror in the City

Terror in the City
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: Farmer
Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.

Related actors