Best Michael Jeter movies
We present our ranking of the best Michael Jeter movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Michael Jeter.
TOP 24: Air Bud
Michael Jeter as: Norm Snively
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 1997
A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. Josh is amazed when he realizes that Buddy loves basketball...that is playing basketball...and he is GOOD! Josh eventually makes the school team and Buddy is named the Team Mascot. Josh and Buddy become the stars of halftime. Buddy's half-time talent draws media attention. Unfortunately, when Buddy's mean former owner, Norm Snively, comes along with a scheme to cash in on the pup's celebrity, it looks like they are going to be separated.
TOP 23: Drop Zone
Michael Jeter as: Earl Leedy
Genre: Action
Release: 1994
A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Ty Moncrief (Busey) specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete Nessip (Snipes) lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of tough-but-lovable instructor Jessie Crossmann (Butler) so he can track them down.
TOP 22: Dead Bang
Michael Jeter as: Dr. Krantz
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1989
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
TOP 21: Jurassic Park III
Michael Jeter as: Mr. Udesky
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 2001
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
TOP 20: Waterworld
Michael Jeter as: Old Gregor
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 1995
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship.
TOP 19: Welcome to Collinwood
Michael Jeter as: Toto
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2002
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
TOP 18: Tango & Cash
Michael Jeter as: Skinner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1989
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
TOP 17: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Michael Jeter as: Father Ignatius
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1993
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
TOP 16: MouseHunt
Michael Jeter as: Quincy Thorpe
Genre: Comedy, Family
Release: 1997
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse.
TOP 15: The Gift
Michael Jeter as: Gerald Weems
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2000
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband, but did he really do it?
TOP 14: Jakob the Liar
Michael Jeter as: Avron
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 1999
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
TOP 13: The Money Pit
Michael Jeter as: Arnie
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1986
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
TOP 12: True Crime
Michael Jeter as: Dale Porthouse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1999
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
TOP 11: The Polar Express
Michael Jeter as: Smokey / Steamer (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2004
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
TOP 10: Thursday
Michael Jeter as: Dr. Jarvis
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1998
Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell breaks loose!
TOP 9: Open Range
Michael Jeter as: Percy
Genre: Western
Release: 2003
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
TOP 8: Ragtime
Michael Jeter as: Special Reporter
Genre: Drama
Release: 1981
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
TOP 7: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Michael Jeter as: Ron Bumquist
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1998
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
TOP 6: Patch Adams
Michael Jeter as: Rudy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1998
Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humour is the best medicine and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it means risking his own career.
TOP 5: The Fisher King
Michael Jeter as: Homeless Cabaret Singer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1991
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
TOP 4: Hair
Michael Jeter as: Sheldon
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music, Romance, War
Release: 1979
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.
TOP 3: Zelig
Michael Jeter as: Freshman #2
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1983
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
TOP 2: Miller's Crossing
Michael Jeter as: Adolph
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Release: 1990
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
TOP 1: The Green Mile
Michael Jeter as: Eduard Delacroix
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 1999
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.