Mel StuartFilmography

Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Thirteen competitive runners present themselves with the ultimate challenge -- a 135-mile voyage through Death Valley to the peaks of Mount Whitney. Director Mel Stuart and his crew follow these men (two of whom are handicapped runners who've lost limbs to land mines) as they confront blistering Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: Beyond The Law

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Gere

Synopsis: In this episode of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers look at American film's treatment of crime, including a loving investigation of that most American of genres, film noir. From Double Indemnity to Pulp Fiction many of the classic films of the genre are investigated. This is the second Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: Against The Grain

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Richard Gere

Synopsis: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, and Sally Field host this documentary TV series with clips from movies cited in the American Film Institute's controversial 100 Greatest Films special (aired June 16, 1998 on CBS). The AFI list irritated numerous movie buffs, film academics, and cinema critics, who Read More

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Man Ray, famed Dada artist, expatriate, and innovator, is the subject of this PBS American Masters Series episode. Stockard Channing hosts this in-depth documentary. Several interviews with the artist himself and other archival footage aptly covers and describes one of the 20th Century's most Read More

Puppies!

Crew: Producer

Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart, whose previous subjects have ranged from JFK to Mao Tse-Tung, focuses his attention on everyone's favorite dinner-jacketed spy in Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond. Roger Moore, who'd played Bond from 1973 through 1985, hosts this roundup of filmclips Read More

Bill

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: This Emmy-winning made-for-TV movie, based on a book by Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Morrow (from his true story), stars Mickey Rooney in the title role of a mentally-challenged adult who has spent his life holed up in a bleak institution. When documentary filmmaker Morrow (Dennis Quaid) and Read More

The White Lions

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael York, Glynnis O'Connor, Donald Moffat, J.A. Preston, Roger E. Mosley

Synopsis: This easy-going television movie is about Chris McBride (Michael York), a real-life naturalist who brings his wife and daughter to an African wildlife preserve to join him in a research project. The area has a special meaning to him because he was born there. His wife is not as enthusiastic as he Read More

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: This made-for-television biography chronicles the life of Italian actress and beauty Sophia Loren, from her childhood in Naples to her international stardom. Joanna Crawford adapted the screenplay from A.E. Hotchner's biographical book. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chisholms

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Chisholms was a three-part miniseries adapted by Evan Hunter from his own novel. Covering the years 1842 through 1844, the dramatization follows the westward trek of the Chisholm family. Patriarch Robert Preston is driven from his midwestern homestead by a feud. Starting down the Ohio river, Preston Read More

Ruby and Oswald

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Producer/director Mel Stuart, who'd previously worked with David L. Wolper on the historical-recreation series Appointment with Destiny, applies the same docudrama techniques to the feature length Ruby and Oswald. Framed in the form of a documentary, the film recounts the days just prior to the Kennedy Read More

Mean Dog Blues

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, George Kennedy, Scatman Crothers, Tina Louise

Synopsis: Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain Omar Kinsman (George Kennedy) snarls a lot as the Read More

Brenda Starr

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dale Messick's inexplicably popular Brenda Starr has to be one of the lamest comic strips ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public; thus, any filmed version of the strip had nowhere to go but up. Jill St. John stars in this feature-length TV pilot film as plucky girl reporter Brenda Starr. While Read More

The Animal Within

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Also known as "Up from the Apes", this is a wildlife documentary video hosted by anthropologist Robert Ardrey. Ardrey delves into the animal kingdom seeking through their behavioral patterns explanations for man's own attitudes towards killing and death. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

One Is a Lonely Number

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas McNallan, Trish VanDevere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh, Melvyn Douglas, Jane Elliot

Synopsis: A woman struggles to rebuild her life after her husband leaves her in this drama. Amy Brower (Trish VanDevere) is a 27-year-old woman who thinks that her marriage to James (Paul Jenkins), a college professor, is a happy one until he unexpectedly files for divorce after falling for one of his Read More

Wattstax

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: The Staple Singers

Synopsis: This is a filmed documentary of a black music festival held on August 20, 1972 at the Los Angeles Coliseum, sponsored by Stax Records and Schlitz Beer. The L.A./Watts riots demonstrated the community's urgent needs to the black show-business community. All the proceeds from the concert and this Read More

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Aubrey Woods

Synopsis: Promoted as a family musical by Paramount Pictures, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is more of a black comedy, perversely faithful to the spirit of Roald Dahl's original book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding Read More

I Love My Wife

Crew: Director

Actors: Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins, Dabney Coleman, Leonard Stone

Synopsis: This romantic comedy finds Richard Burrows (Elliot Gould) as a medical student in residence engaged to marry the pregnant Jody (Brenda Vaccaro). When Jody abstains from sex and her mother moves in with the newlyweds, Richard engages in a series of love affairs with the hospital nurses. He meets Read More

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More

The Making of the President

Crew: Director

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Crew: Director

China: The Roots Of Madness

Crew: Director

Revolution In the 3 R's

Crew: Executive Producer

Pro Football: Mayhem On a Sunday Afternoon

Crew: Executive Producer

The Way Out Men

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

The Making of the President

Crew: Director

Four Days in November

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: David Wolper's crack documentary staff, under the guidance of talented Wolper protege Mel Stuart, was responsible for the powerful, poignant Four Days in November. This filmed record of the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and its aftermath was the yardstick by which future Read More

The Making of the President

Crew: Director