Ivan TorsFilmography

Salty

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: It's lovable mischief happening here when two orphan brothers adopt an endearing sea lion and try to help their buddy open up an old Florida marina before the creditors claim it. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hello Down There

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Roddy McDowall, Jim Backus, Ken Berry

Synopsis: When irascible boss T.R. Hollister (Jim Backus) threatens to pull the plug on an underwater environmental living project, employee Fred Miller (Tony Randall) and his wife, Vivian (Janet Leigh), take their family down in the deep to live for 30 days. With all the modern conveniences of a home on Read More

Daring Game

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Nico Minardos, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Vic Powers (Lloyd Bridges) leads a specialized rescue unit known as the Flying Fish. When an American economics professor is kidnapped by a malevolent Latin American dictator, the call goes out to recover the victim. The unit is equally adept in or out of the water. Ricardo (Nico Minardos) is the Read More

Gentle Giant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Clint Howard, Huntz Hall

Synopsis: The title character is a benign 7-foot-tall grizzly bear (perhaps all grizzlies are benign, but we're not about to get close enough to find out). Little Clint Howard befriends the bear, naming the beast Ben. Clint's wildlife-officer dad Dennis Weaver and mom Vera Miles have some trouble adjusting Read More

Africa - Texas Style!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, John Mills, Tom Nardini, Adrienne Corri, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: In this Ivan Tors action adventure (that later served as the basis for the television series Cowboy in Africa, John Mills appears as Wing Commander Howard Hayes, now having hung up his wings for ranching in Kenya. Hayes hatches a solution to alleviate the hunger of Masai villagers with a plan to Read More

Birds Do It

Crew: Producer

Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around spreading dust. One day the janitor stumbles into Read More

Namu, My Best Friend

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Lansing, John Anderson, Robin Mattson, Richard Erdman, Lee Meriwether

Synopsis: Based on a true story and suitable for the whole family, Namu, the Killer Whale was a film that debunked many myths about orca whales--animals that have traditionally been considered voracious, merciless killers. Set in Puget Sound on one of the San Juan islands, the tale centers on the Read More

Zebra in the Kitchen

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jay North, Martin Milner, Andy Devine, Joyce Meadows, Jim Davis

Synopsis: When Chris Carlyle's (Jay North) family leaves their farm for the city, Chris must give his pet puma up to the local zoo. When Chris discovers the terrible conditions that the animals are being kept in, he manages to find a way to set all of the creatures free, much to the dismay of the local Read More

Flipper: Flipper's Monster

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A film crew arrives in Coral Key to shoot the underwater scenes for a horror movie. But the real monster turns out to be more of the green-eyed variety, when young Bud Ricks (Tommy Norden) becomes jealous -- the film cast includes a pretty young actress (Wende Wagner), who not only manages to Read More

Around the World under the Sea

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Gary Merrill

Synopsis: Ivan Tors Productions, the firm responsible for such aquatic TV delights as Sea Hunt and Flipper, was the prime mover behind MGM's Around the World Under the Sea. The official stars include Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, and Gary Merrill. Read More

Flipper's New Adventure

Crew: Producer

Actors: Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Helen Cherry, Tom Helmore, Francesca Annis, Brian Kelly

Synopsis: This 1964 sequel to the 1963 box-office hit Flipper is unnecessarily melodramatic at times, but at least it isn't a cookie-cutter imitation of the original. Suzy the Dolphin returns to the "male" role of the superintelligent Flipper, while Luke Halpin reprises the role of Sandy Ricks. This time Read More

Rhino!

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Guardino, Robert Culp, Shirley Eaton, Harry Mekela, George Lane

Synopsis: Ivan Tors, the man who made dolphins and grizzlies lovable with Flipper and Gentle Ben respectively, tries to make the magic happen for a different species in Rhino! Robert Culp and Harry Guardino play hunters without bullets, armed only with tranquilizer guns to defend themselves from African Read More

Flipper

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott, Kathleen Maguire, Jane Rose, Joe Higgins

Synopsis: The surprise hit of the summer of 1963, Flipper is a thoroughly captivating outdoor adventure from the Ivan Tors factory. Sandy Ricks (Luke Halpin), the young son of Florida fisherman Porter Ricks (Chuck Connors), nurses a wounded dolphin back to health. His father would prefer that Sandy allow Read More

Underwater Warrior

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dan Dailey, Claire Kelly, James Gregory, Ross Martin, Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: The many undersea exploits of a Navy frogman provide the basis of this episodic adventure based on the true story of naval commander Francis D. Fane. The exciting underwater sequences include actual footage of divers swimming with sharks and a 300-foot dive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sea Hunt [TV Series]

Crew: Producer, Show Creator

Battle Taxi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson, Leo Needham, Jay Barney

Synopsis: Battle Taxi is set during the height of the Korean War. Sterling Hayden plays an officer of the Helicopter Air Rescue Service, whose job it is to save wounded or stranded soldiers from hostile territory. Arthur Franz costars as a lieutenant assigned to the copter service, who at first resents his Read More

Riders to the Stars

Crew: Producer

Actors: William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Martha Hyer, Dawn Addams

Synopsis: In this vintage sci-fi adventure, a team of scientists is studying meteors and is baffled by how and why they are often destroyed when they enter the Earth's atmosphere. In a desire to better understand this process, three astronauts with a background in research -- Richard Stanton (William Read More

Gog

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: When two scientists at a top-secret government installation devoted to space research are killed -- in their own test chamber, seemingly by an experiment gone awry -- Dr. David Sheppard (Richard Egan) is sent out from Washington to investigate. Sheppard mixes easily enough with the somewhat Read More

The 49th Man

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: John Ireland, Richard Denning, Suzanne Dalbert, Robert Foulk

Synopsis: U.S. security agent John Ireland suspects that someone is smuggling atomic devices into America. When he makes his report, Ireland is assured by his superiors that nothing untoward is going on. In fact, the higher-ups have had the wool pulled over their eyes by a clever Communist saboteur, who is Read More

The Magnetic Monster

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Harry Ellerbe, Leo Britt

Synopsis: Curt Siodmak's The Magnetic Monster (1953) is a truly novel science fiction film, in terms of its rather cerebral plot and low-key, quietly intense execution. As much a mystery and, in its first half, a manhunt, as it is a sci-fi-thriller, the movie pushed lots of suspense buttons for viewers in Read More

The Glass Wall

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer, Robin Raymond

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the exploits of Peter, a European desperate to enter the United States. Because he can't be granted asylum due to the lack of proper papers, he resorts to jumping ship and sneaking in. In the Big Apple, he is assisted by two people who know about his past. One of them is a Read More

Storm Over Tibet

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Myron Healey, Robert Karnes, Strother Martin, Harold Fong, Harold Dyrenforth

Synopsis: Most of Storm Over Tibet is built around footage gleaned from a 1930 German documentary lensed in the Himalayas, portions of which had been previously glimpsed in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon. The 1930 film had been directed by Andrew Marton, who also helmed Storm Over Tibet. Concocted by Ivan Tors Read More

Watch the Birdie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller

Synopsis: Watch the Birdie is a remake of Buster Keaton's The Cameraman; in fact, Keaton served as technical advisor, though it seems that most of his advice went unheeded. Red Skelton stars as photo-shop proprietor Rusty Cameron, who dreams of becoming an ace cinematographer. This gets him mixed up with a Read More

In the Good Old Summertime

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Buster Keaton, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg

Synopsis: In the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame and the plot remain the same. Van Johnson and Judy Garland Read More

That Forsyte Woman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy" Errol Flynn, the two got along splendidly during the filming of That Forsyte Woman. Based loosely on The Man of Property, book one of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, the Read More

Song of Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker, who the previous year had played another composer, Jerome Kern, in Til the Clouds Roll By). Clara Read More