Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With Ned Roberts

1. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode: Old Man (1958)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Geraldine Page, Milton Selzer, James Westerfield

Votes: 15

2. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.

Stars: Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford

Votes: 419

3. Perry Mason (1957–1966)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The trials of a master criminal defense attorney handling the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.

Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Ray Collins

Votes: 11,871

4. Adventures of Superman (1952–1958)

TV-G | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The Man of Steel fights crime with help from his friends at the "Daily Planet."

Stars: George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton

Votes: 4,472

5. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Angry Astronaut (1962)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mitch Heller is having emotional problems doing his job as a test astronaut at a private company. The problems become worse when a new man taking over is the general who fired Heller from the Mercury program. Heller is charged with murder.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 263

6. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 9,618

7. Adventures of Superman (1952–1958)
Episode: The Monkey Mystery (1952)

TV-G | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The daughter of an Eastern European scientist flees to the United States to give a secret formula to the president before the communists who killed her father can get to it, and Lois ... See full summary »

Directors: Thomas Carr, Lee Sholem | Stars: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jack Larson, John Hamilton

Votes: 227

8. Dick Tracy (1950–1952)
Episode: Dick Tracy and BB-Eyes: Part 2 (1951)

30 min | Crime, Drama

Two of B.B. Eyes henchmen (Twister and Knuckles) are told to get a murder confession out of Vitamin Flintheart while Tracy is suspicious of B.B. Eyes story that Flintheart beat him up trying to escape.

Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, Wyott Ordung, Richard Kean

Votes: 15

9. Dick Tracy (1950–1952)

30 min | Crime, Drama

Intrepid detective Dick Tracy tangles with a bizarre rogue's gallery of villains. But as always our stoic officer of the law, virtuous to a fault, proves himself up to the task of putting the criminals behind bars.

Stars: Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, William Woodson, Dick Elliott

Votes: 156

10. Sealed Cargo (1951)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War

In 1943, an American fishing boat has a fateful encounter with a seriously damaged Danish schooner off of Canada's Atlantic coast.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn

Votes: 978

11. Rendezvous with Annie (1946)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, War

A homesick American soldier stationed in England during WWII, makes an unauthorized (a.w.o.l) trip on an American Air Force plane to the United States to see his wife, and then hops the ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Eddie Albert, Faye Marlowe, Gail Patrick, Phillip Reed

Votes: 79

12. Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical

A TV repair man must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart, now a famous movie star, so her career will not suffer.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 2,263

13. Go for Broke! (1951)

Passed | 92 min | Drama, History, War

The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.

Director: Robert Pirosh | Stars: Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki, Akira Fukunaga

Votes: 1,749

14. The Vanishing Outpost (1951)

Approved | 56 min | Western

Add a Plot

Director: Ron Ormond | Stars: Lash La Rue, Al St. John, Archie Twitchell, Sue Hussey

Votes: 51

15. Iron Man (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson

Votes: 311

16. Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Musical

A nightclub singer has a racketeer for a manager and a rivalry with his pianist for a girl.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr

Votes: 473

17. That's My Man (1947)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely

Votes: 163

18. Double Deal (1950)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman inherits an Oklahoma oil well and hires an itinerant oil engineer to start drilling but she runs afoul of a greedy oil tycooness who wants her company at any cost, even if it means murder, sabotage and deceit.

Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Marie Windsor, Richard Denning, Taylor Holmes, Fay Baker

Votes: 259

19. Specter of the Rose (1946)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music

Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Hecht | Stars: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen

Votes: 272

20. Marshal of Heldorado (1950)

Approved | 63 min | Drama, Western

The Tulliver brothers are terrorizing the town of Heldorado, and Shamrock has been sent to round them up. Arriving posing as a dude, he gets two of them early when they shoot each other ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight

Votes: 91

21. Ringside (1949)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Sport

Joe O'Hara, a hard fighter, wants the championship title for the money to finance the concert pianist career of his brother Mike, who also could be a good fighter. When Joe fights the title... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Tom Brown, Sheila Ryan, Margia Dean

Votes: 79

22. Dick Tracy (1950–1952)
Episode: Dick Tracy and BB-Eyes: Part 1 (1951)

30 min | Crime, Drama

After a wealthy widow named Carrie Cash who is in Vitamin Flintheart's acting school gets suspicious and calls the police, the criminal B.B. Eyes arranges a scenario wherein Vitamin thinks he has killed her.

Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, Richard Kean, Wyott Ordung