Don ChaffeyFilmography

Mission: Impossible: Bayou

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: Season One of the "new" Mission:Impossible came to an end with the episode titled "The Bayou." Veteran Australian movie villain Frank Thring guest-stars as Jake Morgan, who in concert with his partner Pepper Leveau (Paula Kelly) operates a thriving white-slavery ring in New Orleans. To put Morgan Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Golden Serpent, Part Two

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Golden Serpent," Prince Selimun (Patrick Bishop), one of the heads of an international drug-running operation, comes face to face with his long-dead twin brother. This "reunion" is actually the first stage of an IMF plan to Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fuhrer's Children

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Jane Badler

Synopsis: In another variation of a familiar Mission: Impossible theme, the IMF is assigned to prevent a neo-Nazi uprising. Making the task all the more difficult is the fact that several white-supremacist groups have melded into an international coalition. Posing as a pro-Nazi computer genius, Phelps Read More

Hunter: Love, Hate And Sporty James

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After witnessing a murder committed by a hireling of drug kingpin Bogota (Marco Rodriguez), mercenary street hustler Sporty James (Garret Morris) hopes to turn the situation to his advantage. Intending to blackmail Bogota and retire in luxury on his ill-gotten gains, Sporty sends his girlfriend Read More

International Airport

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Synopsis: The fact that this made-for-TV movie is derivation of the megahit Airport is obvious by the presence of novelist Arthur Hailey in the credits. Gil Gerard heads the cast as David Montgomery, manager of a huge and extremely busy airport. As David wrestles with personal problems at home and a crisis Read More

Casino

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Burghoff, Joseph Cotten, Lynda Day George, Robert Loggia, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Nick (Mike Conners) is the owner of a luxury liner and casino which cruises its way to action and adventure for those on board. Lackluster direction by Don Chaffey is not aided by a cast including Gary Burghoff, Joseph Cotten, Lynda Day George, Bo Hopkins and Robert Loggia, who seem to all be Read More

The Magic of Lassie

Crew: Director

Actors: James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Pernell Roberts, Stephanie Zimbalist, Michael Sharrett

Synopsis: This first Lassie film in nearly three decades (discounting the various feature-length compilations of Lassie TV episodes) is worth watching for its veteran cast. Lassie is legally wrested from freckled-faced Michael Sharrett by evil Pernell Roberts, who hopes that the kid's grandpa Jimmy Stewart Read More

C.H.O.M.P.S.

Crew: Director

Actors: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann, Red Buttons

Synopsis: Brian Foster (Wesley Eure) is a young inventor who creates a mechanical dog as part of a home protection system. When he falls out of favor with his boss Ralph Norton (Conrad Bain), the boss' pretty daughter Casey (Valerie Bertinelli) uses her pull to save the company and Brian's job. Mr. Gibbs (Jim Backus Read More

Shimmering Light

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this gentle drama, a young American man (Beau Bridges) forsakes his promising career working with his father (Lloyd Bridges), a powerful business magnate, in favor of becoming a professional beach bum in Australia. After the boy becomes a world renowned surfer, his dad turns up from the States Read More

Lassie: The New Beginning

Crew: Director

Actors: John Reilly, Lee Bryant, Gene Evans, David Wayne, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: Earl Hamner Jr. of The Waltons fame cowrote the teleplay for Lassie: The New Beginning with Jack Miller. The venerable female collie is now owned by two orphan children (Shane Sinutko and Sally Boyden). She accompanies the kids on a hazardous journey from Arizona to Southern California in search Read More

The Gift of Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Marie Osmond

Synopsis: For her dramatic acting debut, singer Marie Osmond chose this sentimental adaptation of the venerable Yuletide short story The Gift of the Magi, previously filmed in 1952 as a segment of the omnibus feature film O. Henry's Full House. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, The Gift of Love casts Osmond Read More

Pete's Dragon

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Based on a story by Hollywood old-timers Seton I. Miller and S. S. Field, Pete's Dragon divides its time between its flesh-and-blood characters and an animated blue dragon. Pete (Sean Marshall), a lonely orphan boy in turn-of-the-century Maine, runs away from his abusive foster family. He stumbles Read More

The Fourth Wish

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The principal characters in this Australian miniseries were James Casey (John Meillon) and his terminally ill son, Sean (Mark Shields-Brown). Throughout the series' three 75-minute episodes, James met with formidable obstacles as he endeavored to grant Sean his three last wishes: to get a dog, to Read More

Born to Run

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Craig, John Meillon, Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith, Graham Rouse

Synopsis: Two children ride the same pony in this Disney film, but neither one is happy about sharing the animal they both love. James Ellison is rich and wears leg braces; on the pony, she is not crippled. Scotty Pirie is a poor farm boy, and he loves to ride the pony as well. The two dispute the ownership Read More

Persecution

Crew: Director

Actors: Lana Turner, Ralph Bates, Trevor Howard, Olga Georges-Picot, Suzanne Farmer

Synopsis: Originally titled Persecution, the British Terror of Sheba represents Lana Turner's entree into the "fading stars in horror flicks" sweepstakes. Turner plays a maniacally possessive millionairess who delights in dominating her tremulous young son (Mark Weavers). She knows that her son has a morbid Read More

Charley-One Eye

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this western two misfits, a black man AWOL from the union army, and a crippled Indian hide in a Mexican church following the murder of two people. A bounty hunter is hot on their trail. Violence ensues when he catches up to them. The one that killed the people is stoned to death. ~ Sandra Read More

The Pathfinders: Fog

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This series of videos contains memorable episodes from the British television series that mixed drama with archival footage as it chronicled the exploits of squadron 697 during WW II. This volume contains "Fog." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pathfinders: Sitting Ducks

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This series of videos contains memorable episodes from the British television series that mixed drama with archival footage as it chronicled the exploits of Squadron 697 during WW II. This volume contains "Sitting Ducks." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sex Clinic

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Don Chaffey's Sex Clinic stars Georgina Ward as a woman who runs the title business. She offers an outlet for those with more unusual sexual kinks, but in turn blackmails those same customers. Georgina becomes involved in a lesbian relationship, and her son has come sniffing around trying to Read More

Creatures the World Forgot

Crew: Director

Actors: Doon Baide, Beverly Blake, Marcia Fox, Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Robert John, Alfred Shaughnessy, Sue Wilson

Synopsis: Former Miss Norway Julie Ege stars in this low-budget variation on One Million Years B.C., playing a scantily-clad cave girl who becomes the object of a fierce battle between the contenders for the throne of the tribe's recently-deceased chieftain. The last of the prehistoric adventure films from Read More

Avengers: Who Was That Man I Saw You With?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tara is accused of being in cahoots with an enemy agent. Given 24 hours to clear her of all charges, Steed runs up against one dead end after another. Meanwhile, the instigators of Tara's frame-up prepare to nuke London back to the stone age. Written by frequent Avengers guest star Jeremy Burnham Read More

Avengers: Wish You Were Here

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Liam Redmond, Robert Urquhart, Brook Williams

Synopsis: Tara investigates when her uncle doesn't return from his vacation. Following the trail of evidence, she finds herself at a fancy hotel, where guests are permitted to stay as long as they like, but woe betide them if they ever try to leave! While attempting to rescue her uncle, Tara is herself Read More

Avengers: Stay Tuned

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Bond, Kate O'Mara, Patrick Newell

Synopsis: Greeting Steed after his three-week vacation, Tara asks him if he enjoyed himself. Unfortunately, he can't say, because he has absolutely no memory of the past three weeks. Investigating this curious lapse of memory, Tara stumbles upon a plot to kill Mother -- with Steed in the thick of things. Read More

Avengers: Requiem

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Steed is assigned to protect a key witness against the other side. Only Tara is informed of Steed's secret whereabouts, compelling the enemy to hatch an elaborate scheme to extract the necessary information from our heroine. In rapid succession, Tara is kidnapped, her flat is bombed, and her Read More

A Twist of Sand

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Johnson, Honor Blackman, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Roy Dotrice, Jack May

Synopsis: A former World War II submarine captain and his friend turn to smuggling when a former crew member lays out a plan to retrieve some hidden diamonds. Geoffrey (Richard Johnson) and his sidekick David (Roy Dotrice) listen to Riker (Jeremy Kemp) as he tells of the hidden treasure near the Skeleton Read More

The Prisoner: The Arrival

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having been kidnapped and drugged after resigning his position, a British intelligence agent (Patrick McGoohan) awakens in the Village (a mysterious, Orwellian community). Now known as Number Six, he is expected to provide information to the enigmatic Number Two (Guy Doleman) if he ever hopes to Read More

The Viking Queen

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis: Set in first century England, The Viking Queen is a loose retelling of the legend of Boadicea (also sometimes known as Boudica), the queen of the native Britons, who were known as the Iceni. In the year 60 A.D., the Roman governor general Justinian (Don Murray) attempts to rule over the island Read More

The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben

Crew: Director

Actors: Leo McKern, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: In this episode of the cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner, Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) appears to be developing an artistic side when he begins work on a series of sculptures for an art exhibit. What his captors do not realize is that they can be assembled into a boat, and Number 6 uses them to Read More

The Prisoner: Dance of the Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Morris, Norma West

Synopsis: In this episode of the allegorical television series The Prisoner, No. 6 (Patrick McGoohan) discovers a new sort of danger has come to the Village, while a carnival attempts to distract the villagers from their gloom. No. 6 recognizes a new resident, and learns that he is being tortured by No. 2 Read More

The Prisoner: Checkmate

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally written as the second episode of The Prisoner, "Checkmate" was then slated to be shown as episode #11. Instead, it was telecast out of chronological order as the 10th episode on December 3, 1967. One of the series' most fondly remembered installments ---and the one that posted the Read More

One Million Years B.C.

Crew: Director

Actors: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: This film was advertised with the slogan "See Raquel Welch In Mankind's First Bikini!" While archeologists tell us humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, and our prehistoric ancestors probably didn't look much like Ms. Welch and her co-stars, One Million Years B.C. is a good bit more Read More

The Crooked Road

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stewart Granger, Robert Ryan

Synopsis: This British programmer was filmed on the cheap in Yugoslavia, with an American star, Robert Ryan, to secure U.S. playdates. Ryan plays an American journalist who views with alarm as a dictator (Stewart Granger) runs roughshod over the citizens of an unnamed Balkan country. The news hound puts Read More

Avengers: Legacy of Death

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No sooner has Steed inherited an ornate dagger from an unknown benefactor than he is besieged by mysterious characters who offer him enormous sums of money and other tantalizing inducements to hand the dagger over to them. Things go from mildly amusing to highly dangerous when several of the Read More

Secret Agent 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The first episode of the British action/espionage television series Secret Agent is featured on Secret Agent 1. In this episode, secret agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) is introduced as he embarks on a special mission. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Danger Man [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This follow-up to the 1960 Danger Man TV series was also known as Secret Agent in the U.S. As portrayed by Patrick McGoohan, John Drake, special operative for the British Secret Service, brings his own distinctive style and sense of fair-play to bear upon a variety of daring and dangerous missions Read More

A Jolly Bad Fellow

Crew: Director

Actors: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Maxine Audley, Duncan MacRae, Dennis Price

Synopsis: They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of Read More

Jason and the Argonauts

Crew: Director

Actors: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason (Todd Armstrong), rightful heir to the throne of Thessaly, is spared from death through the intervention of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman). The other celestial inhabitants of Read More

The Horse Without a Head

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Paris, Disney's Horse Without a Head stars Jean-Pierre Aumont as police-inspector Sinet. The inspector's well-ordered existence is turned upside down by a group of youngsters who insist upon racing their headless toy horse up and down the streets of Paris. Villainous Herbert Lom Read More

The Three Lives of Thomasina

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Vincent Winter, Denis Gilmore

Synopsis: Based on a whimsical novel by Paul Gallico, Disney's Three Lives of Thomasina is an imaginative tale of a resourceful cat. Thomasina is the pet of Karen Dotrice, the daughter of taciturn Scottish veterinarian Patrick McGoohan. When Thomasina falls ill, McGoohan coldly diagnoses the cat as Read More

A Matter of Who

Crew: Director

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers, Honor Blackman, Guy Deghy

Synopsis: The "WHO" in A Matter of Who isn't a "who" but a "what". The word is an anagram for the World Health Organization, a curious subject for a British comedy--especially one which utilizes a communicable disease as a plot device! WHO operatives Terry-Thomas and Alex Nicol trace the outbreak of a Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Director

Actors: Guy Williams, Sean Scully, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons learned by two disparate and discontented look-a-likes who swear that the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Webster Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: John Cassavetes, Elizabeth Sellars, David Farrar, Richard O'Sullivan, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis: The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle. John Cassavetes is Vance Miller, an American with a serious gambling addiction who is just through with serving time and ready to finally go back to England. His objective is to find Read More

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog

Crew: Director

Actors: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Kay Walsh, Andrew Cruickshank

Synopsis: Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role. A true story, set in Edinburgh around 1875, the Disney version stars Alex McKenzie as the shepherd Old Jock, the owner of a loyal Read More

Nearly a Nasty Accident

Crew: Director

Actors: Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis

Synopsis: Essentially a one-joke comedy hanging on the thinnest of plots, this routine series of slapstick situations is directed by Don Chaffey and concerns the ineptitude of an Air Force officer, Captain Kingsley (Jimmy Edwards). The likeable Captain has a fixation on mechanical contrivances, but at the Read More

Dentist in the Chair

Crew: Director

Actors: Ronnie Stevens, Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker

Synopsis: Gamboling along in a series of sketches without great regard for anything except the next joke, this is a light-minded, unevenly funny comedy by family-oriented director Don Chaffey, put together not long before he began working for Disney studios. At the nexus of the action are David (Bob Monkhouse Read More

Lies My Father Told Me

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: In this touching drama, a precursor for Ted Allan's later story about Jewish life in Montreal, a young Dublin lad idolizes his grandfather, a humble seller of rags and bones. His parents are not pleased by the adoration and attempt to keep the pair apart. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Breakout

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the various prisoners. Richard Todd is Lt. Col. David Baird, intensely and single-mindedly set on escaping. Bernard Lee is Lt. Col. Huxley who is the careful senior British Read More

A Question of Adultery

Crew: Director

Actors: Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney, Donald Houston, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: In this drama, a couple experiences marital turmoil because the husband is a hot-tempered race-car driver with a jealous streak. The woman then gets pregnant and begins hoping that a baby will bring them back together. Unfortunately, the two get into a terrible accident, she loses the baby, and Read More

The Man Upstairs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston, Dorothy Alison, Charles Houston

Synopsis: The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile that stars Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidentally kills the brother of his fiancee. In order to escape the pain, Attenborough changes his name and Read More

The Flesh Is Weak

Crew: Director

Actors: John Derek, Milly Vitale, William Franklyn, Martin Benson, Freda Jackson

Synopsis: This once-notorious British expose film now seems as innocent as a community choir rehearsal. Based on the real-life activities of London's Messina gang, The Flesh is Weak tells the story of a decent girl named Marissa Cooper (Milly Vitale) who is inveigled by a family of pimps into a life of Read More

Time Is My Enemy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this crime drama a murderer covers his tracks by framing his wife. He does this by posing as his victim and forcing his wife to shoot him (with a blank-filled gun). The woman then confesses her crime. Fortunately, a sharp-eyed police inspector doesn't buy her story and soon brings the real Read More

The Secret Tent

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A fine upstanding wife finds it difficult to keep her sordid past as a criminal a secret from her husband and neighbors. The trouble begins when someone robs a neighbor. As the wife suddenly vanishes thereafter, the police immediately label her the prime suspect. Meanwhile, her husband searches Read More

The Girl in the Picture

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this thriller, a crime reporter's photograph contains the key evidence needed to solve a murder. It is a picture of a girl, believed to be the only one who knows the killer's identity. Using the photo, the intrepid journalist tracks her down, falls in love with her, and ultimately, saves her Read More

Skid Kids

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this children's drama, a youthful gang of cyclists find themselves wrongfully accused of stealing bikes from a manufacturer and end up barred from the local track. Unfortunately, they had been using the track to train for the big race. Fortunately, they are able to catch the real culprits. The Read More

The Stolen Plans

Crew: Art Director

Synopsis: In this children's adventure, a young boy and his pen pal from France begin pursuing a crook who has absconded with some secret plans for a new aircraft. The clever kids are able to thwart the thief and bring him to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More