Jack Lester

Jack Lester

Born: August 10, 1915
Died: September 18, 2004
in Enid, Oklahoma, USA

Movies for Jack Lester...

The Flight of Dragons
Title: The Flight of Dragons
Character: Innkeeper (voice)
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.
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The Last Unicorn
Title: The Last Unicorn
Character: Hunter #1 / Old Farmer / Cully's Men (voice)
Released: November 19, 1982
Type: Movie
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
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Die Sister, Die!
Title: Die Sister, Die!
Character: -
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.
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Title: McDuff, the Talking Dog
Character: McDuff (voice)
Released: September 11, 1976
Type: TV
McDuff, The Talking Dog was a Saturday morning live action television program that aired on NBC in 1976. The show centered around the ghost of a 100-year-old sheepdog who used to live in the home now owned by a veterinarian, Dr. Calvin Campbell. McDuff could talk not only to the other animals, but also to Dr. Campbell. However, Dr. Campbell was the only person who could hear or see McDuff, which often led to wacky situations. Dr. Campbell’s neighbor, Amos Ferguson, was played by Gordon Jump, who would later go on to WKRP in Cincinnati fame.
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The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Title: The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body.
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Jennie: Wife/Child
Title: Jennie: Wife/Child
Character: Albert Peckingpaw
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of a young girl saved from desperation by an older farmer who makes her his wife. The old man cannot fulfill his young bride's desires or keep pace with her youth. What is a girl to do? Naturally, pursue the farmhand.
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Man of Steel
Title: Man of Steel
Character: Klondike Joe
Released: March 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Jeff Forbes, president of Alliance Steel, takes his wife and son Kevin on a trip to the Yukon for a hunting trip with "utterly godless" drunkard Klondike Joe. But - surprise! - Klondike Joe is no longer a drunk. Instead, he’s been "converted by this BARRY MOORE fellow," a real-life evangelist who "transformed" Joe and now starts on Jeff and Kevin. Sure enough, not only does Jeff start reading the Bible, but loses interest in the company because he’s "had a transforming experience with Jesus Christ!" Kevin, on the other hand, becomes a teenage drunk after his white-trash girlfriend Dana tries to lure him away from religion with parties and ­ gasp! - bottles of beer. But when one of Kevin’s drunken buddies puts on a dress and falls off the roof of a house, Kevin wants to take Dana to Barry’s Big Crusade.
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Deadwood '76
Title: Deadwood '76
Character: Tennessee Thompson
Released: June 30, 1965
Type: Movie
A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.
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The Two Little Bears
Title: The Two Little Bears
Character: Phil Wade
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Two little boys use a magic potion to turn themselves into bears.
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Title: Johnny Ringo
Character: Charley Reynolds
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.
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Title: Black Saddle
Character: Carr
Released: January 10, 1959
Type: TV
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Title: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Character: The Coach Driver
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
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Port of Escape
Title: Port of Escape
Character: Ship's Mate
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Fred Dyson
Released: July 10, 1949
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. This was the second television film version of the J.B. Priestley play made by the BBC.
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Title: No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Character: Police Capt. Brennan
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead.
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Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Boyne
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Catch as Catch Can
Title: Catch as Catch Can
Character: Superintendent Welbekker
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Undercover agent Robert Leyland entraps crooks trying to sneak expensive goods past customs on transatlantic crossings. After Leyland falls for reluctant smuggler Barbara Standish, he convinces her to return with him to France with her cache of diamonds. But she is unaware of a network of thieves onboard their ship, competing against each other to make off with her jewels.