Josh Mostel
Joshua Elias Mostel (born December 21, 1946) is an American actor with numerous film and Broadway credits. The son of Zero Mostel, he is best known for his supporting roles in films such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Sophie's Choice (1982), City Slickers (1991), Billy Madison (1995), and Big Daddy (1999).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.217 |
| Birthday | 1946-12-21 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Joshua Mostel, |
1991
City Slickers
6.425/738
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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City Slickers
1986
The Money Pit
6.505/1088
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-...
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The Money Pit
1994
The Chase
5.749/335
Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car....
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The Chase
1995
Billy Madison
6.168/1586
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his fath...
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Billy Madison
1983
Star 80
6.4/118
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the...
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Star 80
1987
Radio Days
7.069/544
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...
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Radio Days
1991
Little Man Tate
6.604/280
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the...
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Little Man Tate
1987
Matewan
7.3/99
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Keneh...
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Matewan
1999
Big Daddy
6.468/3163
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
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Big Daddy
1998
Great Expectations
6.6/582
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and t...
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Great Expectations
1973
Jesus Christ Superstar
7.021/535
As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' followin...
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Jesus Christ Superstar
1974
Harry and Tonto
7.025/81
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived...
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Harry and Tonto
2009
State of Play
6.789/1882
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
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State of Play
1972
The King of Marvin Gardens
5.8/83
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality f...
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The King of Marvin Gardens
1992
Nervous Ticks
4/2
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them ha...
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Nervous Ticks
1985
Almost You
5.3/7
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an...
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Almost You
1975
Deadly Hero
6/12
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tend...
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Deadly Hero
2013
Beneath the Harvest Sky
5.947/19
A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
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Beneath the Harvest Sky
1998
Rounders
7.01/1677
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
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Rounders
1994
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
5.228/296
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Neverthel...
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1984
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
0/0
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1998
Thicker Than Blood
6.5/3
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where mo...
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Thicker Than Blood
1984
Windy City
4.7/3
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
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Windy City
1981
Dead Ringer
6/1
Part fiction, part documentary. Dead Ringer was created as a promotional tie-in to Meat Loaf's album of the same name, which was his follow-up to the...
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Dead Ringer
1990
Naked Tango
6.4/14
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
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Naked Tango
1982
Sophie's Choice
7.328/825
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns...
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Sophie's Choice
1999
The Out-of-Towners
5.684/212
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
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The Out-of-Towners
1987
Wall Street
7.165/1980
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthles...
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Wall Street
2001
Knockaround Guys
5.963/335
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Knockaround Guys
2016
The Congressman
6.3/8
Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out a...
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The Congressman
1991
City of Hope
6.719/32
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who...
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City of Hope
1989
Heavy Petting
5.6/8
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffma...
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Heavy Petting
1989
Animal Behavior
2.3/3
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. H...
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Animal Behavior
1985
Compromising Positions
5.5/16
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who ha...
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Compromising Positions
2014
Growing Up and Other Lies
4.1/13
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he p...
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Growing Up and Other Lies
1996
The Maddening
4.8/16
David and Cassie Osborne have an argument one night. So the next morning after David goes to work, Cassie runs off to her sister's house for a few day...
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The Maddening
1986
Stoogemania
3/2
The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixa...
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Stoogemania
1971
Going Home
6.3/15
After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside c...
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Going Home
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
7.109/543
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
2015
Superstars: The Documentary
0/0
In 1971, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock op...
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Superstars: The Documentary
1976
The Money
5.4/5
A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.
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The Money
1984
The Brother from Another Planet
6.6/79
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth p...
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The Brother from Another Planet
2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
6.9/11
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition"...
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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
1982
Fighting Back
5.6/13
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
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Fighting Back
1993
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
4.8/2
Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
1994
Bye Bye America
7/1
The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Ge...
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Bye Bye America
1995
The Basketball Diaries
7.4/1926
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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The Basketball Diaries
1995
Let It Be Me
5.6/7
Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.
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Let It Be Me
1989
Animal Behaviour
0/0
Move over Bonzo, because here comes Mike, the funniest chimpanzee to ever grace the silver screen! In this film, he disrupts a sign language scholar's...
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