James Karen Movie Rankings
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James Karen scores a combined 3.2361 out of 4 stars for Return of the Living Dead
3.2361
Two medical supply warehouse workers unknowingly release a secret chemical rumored to re-animate the dead. Soon zombies take over the town searching for brains. ... more about Return of the Living Dead
Actor Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $3.15 
(1 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 3.1417 out of 4 stars for Poltergeist
3.1417
A family's home is haunted by ghosts that refuse to accept they are dead. Fascinated with the youngest child's "life force" the supernatural beings kidnap the girl and hold her captive. It is up to her family to rescue her from a world between life and death. ... more about Poltergeist
DVD from $1.98 
(1 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 3.1119 out of 4 stars for All the President's Men
3.1119
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. ... more about All the President's Men
DVD from $3.19 
(7 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 3.0922 out of 4 stars for China Syndrome
3.0922
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. ... more about China Syndrome
DVD from $7.49 
(6 sellers)
5
James Karen scores a combined 2.9980 out of 4 stars for Superman Returns
2.9980
Five years after his disappearance, Superman returns to find the world and Lois Lane have lost faith in him. As he struggles with his superpowers and his need to be normal Lex Luther plots to destroy Superman once and for all. ... more about Superman Returns
DVD from $0.01 
(7 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.9957 out of 4 stars for Wall Street
2.9957
Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. ... more about Wall Street
DVD from $3.32 
(6 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.9653 out of 4 stars for Thirteen Days
2.9653
In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. ... more about Thirteen Days
DVD from $3.28 
(7 sellers)
8
James Karen scores a combined 2.9019 out of 4 stars for Nixon
2.9019
The film chronicles the story of former President Richard Nixon from childhood, through his political career and his Presidential resignation in 1974. ... more about Nixon
DVD from $6.00 
(0 sellers)
9
James Karen scores a combined 2.8886 out of 4 stars for Pursuit of Happyness
2.8886
Single father, Christopher Gardner, accepts an unpaid internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm enduring hardships and homelessness in the stuggle for a better life for himself and 5-year-old son. ... more about Pursuit of Happyness
DVD from $3.93 
(6 sellers)
10
James Karen scores a combined 2.7712 out of 4 stars for Capricorn One
2.7712
Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. ... more about Capricorn One
DVD from $4.19 
(5 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.7650 out of 4 stars for Return of the Living Dead Part II
2.7650
In this first sequel to The Return of the Living Dead, a group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxen gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains. ... more about Return of the Living Dead Part II
DVD from $5.99 
(5 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.7380 out of 4 stars for Invaders from Mars
2.7380
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. ... more about Invaders from Mars
DVD from $6.85 
(5 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.7143 out of 4 stars for Any Given Sunday
2.7143
When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. ... more about Any Given Sunday
DVD from $0.98 
(6 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.6969 out of 4 stars for Jagged Edge
2.6969
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. ... more about Jagged Edge
DVD from $3.95 
(6 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.6779 out of 4 stars for Apt Pupil
2.6779
Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is nazi war criminal. ... more about Apt Pupil
DVD from $3.00 
(6 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.6397 out of 4 stars for Joyride
2.6397
To a dumpy motel in an out-of-the-way little town, a mysterious woman, calling herself only Ms. Smith, comes to stay. Not only is she stunningly lovely, but her big black convertible is a beaut. J.T. ... more about Joyride
DVD from $0.14 
(4 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.6360 out of 4 stars for Up Close & Personal
2.6360
This is a telling of the Jessica Savitch story, the newswoman who, in the 1970's, became the "First Woman Anchor". Sally/Tally is taken under the wing of Warren in a Miami newsroom and becomes a news star on TV. ... more about Up Close & Personal
DVD from $4.75 
(5 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.3654 out of 4 stars for Jazz Singer
2.3654
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. ... more about Jazz Singer
DVD from $6.24 
(6 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.3136 out of 4 stars for Congo
2.3136
Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. ... more about Congo
DVD from $4.16 
(6 sellers)
21
James Karen scores a combined 2.2175 out of 4 stars for Hercules in New York
2.2175
After many centuries, Hercules gets bored living in Olympus (the home of the great Greek gods) and decides to move to... New York. But obviously, it is not easy for a man who lived in ancient Greece to get used to modern life. ... more about Hercules in New York
DVD from $3.99 
(4 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 2.1806 out of 4 stars for Opening Night
2.1806
A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress. ... more about Opening Night
DVD from $19.00 
(3 sellers)
23
James Karen scores a combined 2.1258 out of 4 stars for I Never Sang for My Father
2.1258
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. ... more about I Never Sang for My Father
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 1.7988 out of 4 stars for Film
1.7988
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. ... more about Film
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 1.5582 out of 4 stars for Time Walker
1.5582
Professor Doug McCadden is in charge of opening his university's latest acquisition - a sealed Egyptian sarcophagus. Opening it reveals an ancient mummy and a mold substance which proves to eat the flesh of anyone touching it. ... more about Time Walker
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 1.5342 out of 4 stars for Unborn
1.5342
A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body. ... more about Unborn
DVD from $104.95 
(0 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 1.3709 out of 4 stars for House on a Hill
1.3709
A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his crumbling old house for them. ... more about House on a Hill
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 1.3333 out of 4 stars for Willies
1.3333
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. There are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest. ... more about Willies
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 1.2739 out of 4 stars for Shadow of Doubt
1.2739
After the daughter of a prominent businessman is brutally murdered, high profile defense attorney Kitt Devereux takes the case of the accused murderer, rising rapper Bobby Medina. ... more about Shadow of Doubt
DVD from $3.92 
(5 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 1.0684 out of 4 stars for Fly Boy
1.0684
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.9995 out of 4 stars for F.I.S.T
0.9995
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. ... more about F.I.S.T
DVD from $2.83 
(3 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 0.9786 out of 4 stars for Girlfriend from Hell
0.9786
The Devil is a woman! She is on the run and being pursued by God's "chaser", (who is an ex-lover coincidently). The chase drops her in the lap of an ongoing birthday party where shy Maggie is on a blind date with equally shy David. ... more about Girlfriend from Hell
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.6529 out of 4 stars for Behind Enemy Lines
0.6529
An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general. Contains extreme violence, including torture, and profanity. ... more about Behind Enemy Lines
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Amazing Grace
0.0001
An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office by some shady politicians who have no interest in their neighborhood but are interested in getting their hands on the money that ... more about Amazing Grace
DVD from $5.68 
(6 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Closer
0.0001
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Future Shock
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Garbo
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Girl
0.0001
Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to local ... more about Girl
DVD from $62.79 
(0 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hardbodies 2
0.0001
A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along with numerous opportunities for the actresses to take their clothes off. ... more about Hardbodies 2
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Jane Bond
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Office Court
0.0001
Accused of crimes they didn't commit, IT professionals are viewed as guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of their suspicious co-workers. ... more about Office Court
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Outlaw Trail
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rivals
0.0001
After a bitter divorce a little boy sees his mother remarry. He doesn't seem to mind, until he finds out his mother's husband has a son his own age and decides to kill him. ... more about Rivals
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for River Made to Drown In
0.0001
Allen, a struggling young artist who once survived by working in the streets, is now involved with Eva, a wealthy Los Angeles gallery owner. ... more about River Made to Drown In
DVD from $4.99 
(3 sellers)
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Sam's Son
0.0001
Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team. ... more about Sam's Son
Not Available on DVD
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James Karen scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Take This Job and Shove It
0.0001
The "Alison Group" has bought four beer breweries in difficulties. The young but rising top manager Franck Macklin is sent to reorganize one of them - the one which happens to be the main company in his home town. ... more about Take This Job and Shove It
DVD from $3.00 
(2 sellers)
 
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James Karen
Birthdate:
November 28, 1923

James Karen

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1960s
1
total ranking of 0.6887  0.6887
1970s
9
total ranking of 2.2908  2.2908
1980s
13
total ranking of 2.6851  2.6851
1990s
19
total ranking of 1.7881  1.7881
2000s
11
total ranking of 2.1279  2.1279
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.2850
James Karen is ranked overall as 2.2850 of of 4 stars
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