Highest rated movie: The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Lowest rated movie: Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
More About This Page
Looking for reviews of Gene Lyons movies? Cinafilm has a total of 589 reviews across 2 movies.
Movies starring Gene Lyons have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
The People vs. Larry Flynt - released in 1996 - is Gene Lyons's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 586 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gene Lyons is Daddy's Gone A-Hunting - released in 1969 - with a score of 53% based on 3 reviews.
Gene Lyons (February 9, 1921 – July 8, 1974) was an American television actor from Pittsburgh, best known for his role as police commissioner Dennis Randall on the NBC detective series Ironside starring Raymond Burr.
A life member of The Actors Studio, Lyons was in the Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution for two years. His other Broadway credits include Masquerade (1958), The Trip to Bountiful (1953), Harriet (1942), and This Rock (1942).
In 1953, Lyons played a police detective on the CBS drama series Pentagon U.S.A.. He appeared in 1954 as Steve Rockwell on the CBS daytime drama Woman with a Past. Before joining Raymond Burr as a regular on Ironside, he appeared on Perry Mason in 1965 as murderer Ralph Balfour in "The Case of the Wrathful Wraith." He also made guest appearances on nearly two dozen other series including The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Fugitive, Ben Casey, Star Trek ("A Taste of Armageddon"), The Twilight Zone ("King Nine Will Not Return"), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Untouchables. He also appeared in films including Kiss Her Goodbye and The Young Don't Cry.
Lyons died in Los Angeles, California on July 8, 1974 and is buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
Gene Lyons has acted in films with Edward Norton, Woody Harrelson, James Cromwell and Crispin Glover.
Gene Lyons has worked with these film directors: Miloš Forman and Mark Robson.
Popular Movies Right Now
