Burt Balaban Filmography

Born:: March 6, 1922
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: American filmmaker and producer Burt Balaban was originally trained as a combat cameraman for the Marines during WW II. Later he went on to direct and produce television films during the 1950s. At the end of the decade he began working in feature films, though he made very few. Balaban is best...Read More

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The Gentle Rain

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Christopher George, Lynda Day, Fay Spain

Synopsis: In this drama, a troubled 17-year old socialite runs away from her home in New York to Rio. There she falls for a troubled architect. The architect, devastated since his girlfriend was killed, is unable, or unwilling to speak. The girl tries to help him by suggesting he see a psychiatrist, but he Read More

1966
Mad Dog Coll

Crew: Director

Actors: John Chandler, Neil Nephew, Brooke Hayward, Joy Harmon, Jerry Orbach, Vincent Gardenia, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: This gangland crime story about the life and death of mobster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (John Chandler) is most notable for the array of relatively unknown actors in bit parts who later became famous. Otherwise, there is a lot of bloodshed, surface characterization, and a great deal of fiction in the Read More

1961
Murder, Inc.

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan, Peter Falk, Sarah Vaughan, David J. Stewart

Synopsis: This true crime story was hardly "ripped from today's headlines," since the events took place some 20 to 30 years before the movie was released. Still, Murder, Inc. is not afraid to name names, notably those of syndicate boss Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (David J. Stewart) and killer Abe Reles (Peter Falk Read More

1960
High Hell

Crew: Director

Actors: John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rodney Burke, Patrick Allen, Jerold Wells

Synopsis: Craig Rhodes (John Derek) is the partner of gold miner Frank Davidson (Al Mulock). Frank's wife Lenore (Elaine Stewart) develops a yen for Rhodes, while he insists upon remaining honorable.The situation becomes prickly when a heavy snowfall forces Frank, Lenore and Craig to share close quarters Read More

1958
Lady of Vengeance

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears, Anton Diffring, Patrick Barr, Vernon Greeves

Synopsis: Old-timer Dennis O'Keefe and newcomer Ann Sears star in the British melodrama Lady of Vengeance. O'Keefe plays an American publisher headquartered in London, whose young ward (Eileen Elton) is driven to suicide. The distraught O'Keefe hires a professional criminal (Anton Diffring) to plot the Read More

1957
The Stranger from Venus

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, a Venusian emissary and an earth woman become friends. The alien tells her that he has come to warn her of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately very few earthlings listen to his message. The film is basically a cheap knock-off of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Read More

1954
Diplomatic Passport

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s, was able to find occasional work in England. Ms. Hunt is top-billed in Diplomatic Passport, but hers is a secondary role to hero Paul Carpenter. The latter plays an American diplomat who is being used as an Read More

1954