Doug LeflerFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Second Unit Director, Screenwriter

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The Last Legion

Crew: Director

Actors: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd

Synopsis: Co-adapted by Tom Butterworth and Jez Butterworth from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's best-selling historical adventure novel, Doug Lefler's period epic The Last Legion unfurls in 470 A.D., just prior to the fall of the colossal Roman Empire. As the most recent in a long line of caesars, a young Roman Read More

8/17/07
Spider-Man

Crew: Second Unit Director

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: After incorporating elements of comic book style and design into many of his films, director Sam Raimi helms this straight-ahead, big-budget comic book adaptation, which also marks acclaimed young actor Tobey Maguire's first dip into live-action blockbuster filmmaking. Spider-Man follows the Read More

5/3/02
Dragonheart: A New Beginning

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Masterson, Robby Benson

Synopsis: While knights usually slay dragons, a would-be hero tries to save the world by keeping a dragon alive in this adventure fantasy. In ancient times, Geoff (Christopher Masterson), a young man who works as a stable boy, wants to prove himself by becoming a knight. Geoff trains on his own, diligently Read More

2000
Xena: Warrior Princess: Chakram

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jennifer Sky, Kevin Smith, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: The messianic shaman Eli (Timothy Omundson) has successfully brought back Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) from the dead. But while Gabby seems none the worse for wear, the amnesiac Xena has returned with an entirely different personality; for one thing, she is far more concerned Read More

1999
A Simple Plan

Crew: Second Unit Director

Actors: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda, Jack Walsh

Synopsis: Based on Scott B. Smith's bone-chilling 1993 novel, A Simple Plan is a bit of a departure for horror film director Sam Raimi. Instead of flying eyeballs and dancing corpses, A Simple Plan is a taught crime thriller in the vein of Joel Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo. Set during the white Read More

12/11/98
Xena: Warrior Princess: A Family Affair

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Willa O'Neill

Synopsis: Still searching for their supposedly deceased friend Gabrielle, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Joker (Ted Raimi) show up in Gabby's home village of Potidea. Xena's joy is unbounded when she thinks she sees Gabrielle, alive and well. But alas, it is only an illusion: Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, has Read More

1998
Babylon 5: Day of the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Unexpected trouble develops during the Brakiris' traditional Day of the Dead ceremony. Elsewhere, a pair of intergalactic comedians named Rebo and Zooty arrive to give a show for the B5 crew. The two funsters are portrayed by "guerilla magicians" Penn and Teller, with author Harlan Ellison Read More

1998
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - The Wrong Path

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Clare Carey, Mickey Rose, Nicky Mealings

Synopsis: After five made-for-TV feature films designed to establish the principal character and his surroundings, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) was awarded his own weekly, syndicated series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In the opening episode, Hercules' wife and children are consumed in a ball of flame Read More

1995
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - The King of Thieves

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Lisa Chapell, Martyn Sanderson, Bruce Campbell

Synopsis: In the first episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys' second season, Hercules' friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) rescues Autolycus (Bruce Campbell in his first series appearance) from a band of ruffians. As a "reward" for his courage, poor Iolaus is left holding the bag -- actually the box Read More

1995
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - The Road to Calydon

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Norman Forsey, Portia Dawson, John Sumner, Peter Rowley

Synopsis: A jewel-encrusted chalice is removed from its place of honor in the town of Parthus, bringing down the wrath of the gods in the form of a terrible rock storm. Hercules (Kevin Sorbo), guided by an all-wise Seer (Norman Forsey), tries to shepherd a group of refugees through the storm and into the Read More

1995
Xena: Warrior Princess: Sins of the Past

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jay Lagai'aia, Daren Takle, Stephen Hall

Synopsis: In the debut episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, the title character, played by Lucy Lawless, has forsaken her former evil ways and has committed herself to burying the past and protecting the innocent. The first task for the "reformed" Xena is to rescue a group of village girls from the minions of Read More

1995
Hercules and the Circle of Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Tawny Kitaen, Kevin Atkinson, Chris Brougham

Synopsis: In the third of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the Earth is in danger of turning into a block of ice unless the fires of the world can be rekindled. This calamitous situation is the handiwork of Hercules' treacherous stepmother Hera, in whose immortal Read More

1994
The Horror Show

Crew: Storyboard Artist

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, DeDee Pfeiffer, Aaron Eisenberg

Synopsis: This muddled attempt at creating a new supernatural serial killer franchise (in the mode of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) features perennial movie thug Brion James as sadistic mass murderer Max Jenke, who hacked up more than 100 victims with a meat cleaver before his Read More

4/28/89
Steel Dawn

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Christopher Neame, Brion James, John Fujioka

Synopsis: This futuristic drama offers the classic story of Shane seved up with a few Mad Max moments and some interesting twists. The tale is set in the smouldering, decimated post-World War III town of Meridian, where locals scrabble to keep their meager farms watered in the midst of a desert wasteland. Read More

11/6/87