Year | Film | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1941 | Pot o’ Gold | Band member Radio announcer |
Uncredited |
1950 | PM Picnic | Narrator | |
1964 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Joey Friedlander | |
1967 | A Guide for the Married Man | Married man “Joe X” | |
1974 | Harry and Tonto | Harry Coombes | Academy Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1975 | W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | Deacon John Wesley Gore | |
Death Scream | Mr. Jacobs | TV film (aka Street Kill) | |
Katherine | Thornton Alman | TV film | |
1976 | Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood | J.J. Fromberg | |
1977 | The Late Show | Ira Wells | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor |
Scott Joplin | John Stark | ||
1978 | Movie Movie | Doctor Blaine/Doctor Bowers | |
House Calls | Dr. Amos Willoughby | ||
Star Wars Holiday Special | Trader Saun Dann | ||
1979 | Going in Style | Al | Pasinetti Award for Best Actor |
Steel | Pignose Moran | ||
You Can’t Take It With You | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | ||
Sunburn | Marcus | ||
Ravagers | Sergeant | ||
1980 | Roadie | Corpus C. Redfish | |
Defiance | Abe | ||
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Robert Stroud | TV film | |
Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story | Art Rooney | TV film | |
1981 | St. Helens | Harry Truman | |
Take This Job and Shove It | Charlie Pickett | ||
Bitter Harvest | Walter Peary | TV film | |
The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold | Narrator / Blarney Kilakilarney | TV film | |
1982 | Better Late Than Never | Charley Dunbar | |
1983 | The Last Leaf | Mr. Behrman | |
1984 | Terrible Joe Moran | Tony | TV film |
Firestarter | Irv Manders | ||
The Muppets Take Manhattan | Bernard Crawford | ||
The Naked Face | Morgens | ||
The Night They Saved Christmas | Santa Claus | TV film | |
The Undergrads | Mel Adler | ||
1985 | Izzy and Moe | Moe Smith | TV film |
The Blue Yonder | Henry Coogan | TV film | |
1986 | Miracle of the Heart | Father O’Halleran | |
1987 | Night Friend | Monsignor O’Brien | |
1990 | Where Pigeons Go to Die | Da | Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |
1993 | Last Action Hero | Frank |