Movies starring Harve Presnell

Biography: 
By the time brawny baritone Harve Presnell arrived on the film scene, the "golden age" of musicals had long passed. At that time, he was training for an operatic career and was performing nationally. Legendary composer Meredith Willson happened to catch an earful of the talented singer and, in the mold of an Alfred Drake or Howard Keel, wrote the role of Johnny "Leadville" Brown in "The Unsinkable ...  show all 

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Matt Damon | Charlize Theron | Bruce McGill | Joel Gretsch | J. Michael Moncrief | Lane Smith | Peter Gerety | Michael O'Neill | Thomas Jay Ryan | Trip Hamilton | Dermot Crowley | Harve Presnell | Danny Nelson | Bob Penny
Directors: Robert Redford
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Face/Off (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Nicolas Cage | Joan Allen | Alessandro Nivola | Gina Gershon | Dominique Swain | Nick Cassavetes | Harve Presnell | Colm Feore | John Carroll Lynch | CCH Pounder | Robert Wisdom | Margaret Cho | James Denton | Matt Ross
Directors: John Woo
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer’s son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux’s things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster’s identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer’s face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Winona Ryder | John Turturro | Allen Covert | Peter Gallagher | Jared Harris | Erick Avari | Peter Dante | Conchata Ferrell | Harve Presnell | Steve Buscemi | Blake Clark | John McEnroe | J.B. Smoove | Tom McNulty
Directors: Steven Brill
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds’ sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn’t necessarily need to change him.