Richard DonnerFilmography

Born:: April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York, NY
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Birth name:: Richard Donald Schwartzberg
Biography:: Working briefly as an actor in the late 1950s, American director Richard Donner first wielded the megaphone for a group of TV commercials, then graduated to the weekly western Wanted: Dead or Alive. Some of Donner's best early work was concentrated on the fantasy anthology Twilight Zone...Read More

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Ryan Reynolds

Synopsis: The gruff, adamantium-clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine strikes out on his own in this X-Men spin-off starring series regular Hugh Jackman. The story gets under way as the boy who will become Wolverine makes a shocking discovery about his family bloodline, and gains a brother in the process. Flash Read More

5/1/09
Comic Books Unbound

Actors: Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Zak Penn, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair

Synopsis: Comic books have long been a key source of inspiration in Hollywood, and in this documentary from Starz Inside, the folks behind some of the most popular comic-to-screen translations ever produced explain how the stories that have held children captivated for decades successfully made the Read More

2008
16 Blocks

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander

Synopsis: A hard-drinking, hard-living cop assigned the task of transporting a small-time criminal to the nearby courthouse finds that a simple, 16-block drive can be the longest ride of his life in director Richard Donner's urban action thriller. Hung-over, has-been cop Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) has seen Read More

3/3/06
Timeline

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis

Synopsis: Directing his first film since 1998's Lethal Weapon 4, Richard Donner helmed this big-budget adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Featuring a script by first-time screenwriter George Nolfi, Timeline begins in France in the near future. A group of students from Yale are there Read More

11/26/03
The Omen Legacy

Actors: Harvey Bernhard, Richard Donner, David Seltzer

Synopsis: From the makers of The Alien Saga comes The Omen Legacy, an AMC documentary covering all four films in the thrilling series on the coming of the antichrist. The special follows the filmmakers as they break box-office figures with the first film, only to see each one after become more commercially Read More

2001
X-Men

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden

Synopsis: One of the most popular superhero teams in comic book history finally comes to the screen in this big-budget adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics series. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled mutants called X-Men, a peacekeeping force to safeguard the world Read More

7/14/00
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rob Bogue, Jayne Heitmeyer

Synopsis: A hero finds himself fighting a new enemy in a world he hardly recognizes in this tongue-in-cheek sci-fi thriller. Matthew Blackheart (Rob Bogue) was a man-made superhero created by Allied scientists during World War II to help in the fight against the Nazi menace. However, Blackheart was put into Read More

2000
Any Given Sunday

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little Read More

12/22/99
Made Men

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Beach, Timothy Dalton, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: A man under federal protection finds himself on the run from a gang of angry mobsters and a cop gone bad after his successful execution of a multimillion dollar heist. This studio film is not to be confused with the 1997 indie melodrama, starring Cara Buono of The Sopranos and directed by Don Read More

1999
Lethal Weapon 4

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) reteamed for their fourth foray together in this buddy-cop action-comedy series based on characters created by Shane Black. With the passage of years, Murtagh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) is now about to upgrade Murtagh to Read More

7/10/98
Free Willy 3: The Rescue

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Vincent Berry, Patrick Kilpatrick

Synopsis: In the third installment in the Free Willy series, Jesse (Jason James Richter), the once-troubled youth whose life was changed by his friendship with the killer whale Willy, is spending the summer on board a ship assisting a group a whale researchers, including his old friend Randolph (August Schellenberg Read More

1997
Conspiracy Theory

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Stephen Kahan

Synopsis: Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a New York City cab driver who seems to have absorbed every bit of crackpot information passed along as "suppressed news" that's surfaced on talk radio or the Internet in the past 20 years. Anti-United Nations militia men who are actually U.N. operatives? NASA Read More

1997
Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: In this satirical horror-comedy, a gumshoe investigates a combination TV ministry/whorehouse/vampire infestation. After bounty hunter Vincent (Phil Fondacaro) unearths the remains of Lilith, queen of the vampires, he restores the alluring creature to life and lords over her using a magical Read More

1996
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Synopsis: Two unlikely friends -- a boy and a killer whale -- are reunited under potentially dangerous circumstances in this sequel to the successful family adventure Free Willy. Jesse (Jason James Richter) has finally found stability and contentment with his foster parents Glen and Annie Greenwood (Michael Madsen Read More

1995
Assassins

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Anatoly Davydov

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner helms this action-adventure yarn in which Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone), a veteran, burned-out hit man for hire who's looking to leave his profession, meets a younger, crazier, more ambitious competitor, Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), who is out to best Read More

1995
First Works: A Revealing Look at Today's Greatest Directors, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Everyone has to start somewhere, even if they are Martin Scorsese or John Carpenter. This documentary takes a look at their beginning works and film school clips along with those of Richard Donner Lethal Weapon 4, Ron Howard Cocoon, John Milius, director and writer, and Susan Seidelman Desperately Read More

1995
Maverick

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

1994
Demon Knight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

1994
Free Willy

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

1993
Lethal Weapon 3

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) once again manages Read More

5/15/92
Radio Flyer

Crew: Director

Actors: Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares no rod with the youngest brother. Reverting to a world of make-believe, they imagine that their Radio Flyer wagon can fly and that in it they can escape their tormenting stepfather. This film deals in an Read More

2/21/92
Delirious

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Dylan Baker, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Read More

8/9/91
Lethal Weapon 2

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon 2 reteams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" LA detective Martin Riggs and Riggs' partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going Read More

7/7/89
Tales From the Crypt: Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Richard Donner's "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone" is about a man with nine lives, who runs through each life without care -- in fact, he forgets how many lives he has left. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Tales From the Crypt [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: It isn't often that a popular TV series is inspired by a literary property that all but destroyed a particular industry, but such was the case with the weekly, half-hour horror anthology Tales From the Crypt. Most of the episodes depicted herein were based on stories originally published in the EC Read More

1989
Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House

Crew: Producer

Actors: Larry Drake, Mary Ellen Trainor, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: Robert Zemeckis' "And All Through the House" is about a psychotic Santa Claus (Larry Drake) who has just escaped from an insane asylum and comes knocking at the door of a woman (Mary Ellen Trainor), who's fresh from killing her husband for greedy reasons. The episode is a remake of one of the Read More

1989
Scrooged

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More

11/23/88
The Lost Boys

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Kiefer Sutherland, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: In this hit '80s hybrid of the horror movie and the teen flick, a single mom and her two sons become involved with a pack of vampires when they move into an offbeat Northern California town. Lucy (Dianne Wiest) and her sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to Santa Carla to live Read More

7/31/87
Lethal Weapon

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins

Synopsis: LA cop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), whose wife has recently died, is a loose cannon with a seeming death wish. This makes him indispensable in collaring dangerous criminals, but a liability to any potential partners. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), a conservative family man who wants to stay alive Read More

3/6/87
The Goonies

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green

Synopsis: Leonard Maltin wasn't alone when he noticed similarities between Goonies and the 1934 Our Gang comedy Mama's Little Pirate. Adapted by Chris Columbus from a story by Steven Spielberg, the film follows a group of misfit kids (including such second-generation Hollywoodites as Josh Brolin and Sean Astin Read More

1985
Ladyhawke

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood

Synopsis: In medieval France, knight Rutger Hauer and lady fair Michelle Pfeiffer both run afoul of evil-bishop John Wood. Through the auspices of bishop's confessor Leo McKern, Hauer and Pfeiffer are placed under a curse. During the night, Hauer takes the form of a wolf, while Pfeiffer assumes the form of Read More

1985
The Toy

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In The Toy, director Richard Donner and screenwriter Carol Sobieski update the 1976 Pierre Richard farce Le Jouet as a vehicle for comedian Richard Pryor. Pryor stars as out-of-work journalist Jack Brown, who's hit with the sudden realization that his idle book writing won't pay a 10,000-dollar Read More

1982
The Final Conflict

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow, Leueen Willoughby

Synopsis: The second sequel to the 1976 horror hit The Omen finds Damien Thorn assuming the full mantle of the Antichrist and preparing for a final, all-out battle with "the Nazarene." Now in his thirties, Damien (Sam Neill) has elevated the family business, Thorn Industries, into the world's biggest Read More

1981
Inside Moves

Crew: Director

Actors: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Harold Russell, Amy Wright

Synopsis: Richard Donner directed this compassionate tale concerning the daily struggles of handicapped citizens. The film deals with the volatile relationship between Roary (John Savage), who has unsuccessfully tried to kill himself, and the hair-trigger Jerry (David Morse), a basketball player who has no Read More

1980
Superman: The Movie

Crew: Director

Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where Read More

1978
The Omen

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: Satan's son has arrived on Earth and He's not about to let human parents get in the way. When his wife Katherine's (Lee Remick) pregnancy ends in a stillbirth in a Rome hospital, U.S. diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) substitutes another baby, whose mother died. Little Damien (Harvey Stephens) Read More

1976
The Waltons: The Shivaree

Synopsis: Olivia Walton's namesake Young Olivia (Deborah White) brings her city-bred husband Bob (Bruce Davison) to Walton's Mountain for their wedding. Realizing that Bob would neither understand nor appreciate the old mountain custom of the "shivaree", in which the local boys kidnap the groom on his Read More

1975
A Shadow in the Streets

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Sheree North, Dana Andrews, Ed Lauter, Jesse Welles

Synopsis: Just one year before directing his breakthrough film, 1976's The Omen, filmmaker Richard Donner helmed this made-for-television drama about an ex-con, played by Tony Lo Bianco. After his release from prison, parolee Pete Mackey (Lo Bianco) is faced with a number of obstacles in his attempts to go Read More

1975
Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: Fresh from her success in The Exorcist (and several years away from her tenure as queen of the women in prison flicks), Linda Blair stars in this searing TV movie. Sarah (Blair), a normal teenaged girl, begins drinking socially at high school parties. She soon finds that she can't stop--and even Read More

1975
Bronk

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Palance

Synopsis: Jack Palance portrays undercover cop Lt. Alexander Bronkov, or "Bronk" for short. Bronk has a short fuse and an oversupply of compassion, which is not the best of all combinations when dealing with his rulebound higher-ups. In this made-for-TV movie, Bronk is assigned to bust up a drug ring, an Read More

1975
The Streets of San Francisco: Commitment

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On assignment, Stone (Karl Malden) kills a suspect who turns out to be an undercover cop. Though he insists that the killing was an accident, tests in the police lab would seem to suggest that he has committed murder. As the story develops, Stone realizes that he has been made the fall guy in an Read More

1974
Lucas Tanner

Crew: Director

Synopsis: David Hartman stars as Lucas Tanner in this made for TV film. A former athlete and sportswriter, Tanner decides to become a high school teacher after losing his wife and son in an auto accident. His new career is almost over before it begins when Tanner is held responsible for the death of a Read More

1974
Kojak: The Best War in Town

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Future Barnaby Jones costar Mark Shera) is cast as Ralph Warren, a rookie cop who stumbles upon a mob hit in progress. Rescuing the would-be victim from being strangled by a trio of thugs, Warren is unaware that his good deed will soon spark an all-out gangland war. It is up to Kojak (Telly Read More

1974
Kojak: Wall Street Gunslinger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In a daring daylight robbery, two criminals steal $20,000,000 in Wall Street securities, killing a man as they escape. Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) determines that the best way to bring the thieve out in the open is to dangle an attractively baited hook. The highlight of this episode is Kojak's Read More

1974
Senior Year

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this drama a young couple suffer a terrible tragedy that forces them to begin acting like mature adults. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Streets of San Francisco: A String of Puppets

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A robbery gang comes to the attention of homicide detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) when the crooks murder a fellow gang member. Going undercover, Keller tries to determine if there is a link between the criminals' activities and a sultry nightclub singer. Lola Falana Read More

1974
Kojak: One for the Morgue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a "hit" on mob boss Mike Tomasso (Art Metrano) fails, Kojak (Telly Savalas) begins receiving anonymous tips that Tomasso's chief rival Serafin (Anthony Charnota) ordered the killing. But as the case progresses, Kojak can't help suspecting that those tips are leading him down the proverbial Read More

1973
Ironside: Who'll Cry for My Baby?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No one in the police department seems to care too much when call girl Wanda Bolen (Tisha Sterling) turns up murdered. All this changes when Chief Ironside meets and befriends the girl's elderly, grief-stricken father (Titos Vandis). Making it his personal crusade to bring Wanda's killer to Read More

1972
Sam Cade

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Ed Asner, Shelley Fabares, Ed Flanders

Synopsis: Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted for assassination when he's scheduled to Read More

1972
Lola

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

1969
Child Bride

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third title, Twinky). Bronson plays a middle-aged author who falls in love with 16-year-old Susan George. Their subsequent marriage causes such friction with George's family that she Read More

1969
Salt and Pepper

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: Two steadfast members of Frank Sinatra's self-styled "clan," Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr., are the stars of Salt and Pepper. The boys run a swinging nightclub in London's Soho district (which explains their awful "mod" wardrobe) and also reluctantly double as secret agents. Their current Read More

1968
The Fugitive: Wife Killer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Baker City, Ohio, newspaper reporter Barbara Webb (Janice Rule) publishes the photo of a murder suspect (Bill Raisch) whom fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) recognizes as Fred Johnson, the One-Armed Man who killed his wife. As a result, Kimble rushes to Baker City in hopes of collaring Read More

1966
The F.B.I.: The Spy-Master

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In hopes of smashing a Red spy ring, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) poses as Adam Rogers, a foreign service worker. As expected, the undercover Erskine is approached by Chinese agents and asked to spy on his own country. The "maguffin" in this story is a document known as the Forsythe Read More

1966
The Fugitive: In a Plain Paper Wrapper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As "Bob Stoddard", Kimble (David Janssen) works as a bartender at the same restaurant where Susan Cartwright (Lois Nettelton) is a waitress. Recognizing Kimble from a police description, Susan's nephew Gary (Pat Cardi) and his pals decide to capture the fugitive and claim the reward, using a Read More

1966
Perry Mason: The Case of the Gambling Lady

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is in Reno, helping Pete Warren (Peter Breck) finalize his divorce from his wife Myrna. When an incriminating photo reveals that Myrna (Myrna Fahey) is mixed up in a counterfeit gambling-chip scam at a local gambling casino, Pete tells a pack of lies to the authorities Read More

1965
The Twilight Zone: From Agnes-With Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Wally Cox, Sue Randall, Ralph Taeger, Raymond Bailey, Don Keefer

Synopsis: Written by Bernard Schoenfeld, this moderately amusing Twilight Zone outing stars Wally Cox as nerdish computer technician James Elwood. Falling in love with secretary Millie (Sue Randall aka "Miss Landers" on Leave It to Beaver), Elwood begins receiving romantic advice from a most unlikely source Read More

1964
The Twilight Zone: The Jeopardy Room

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Donner, Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Rod Serling, William Froug, Bob Kelljan

Synopsis: Having just defected from an Iron Curtain country, Major Ivan Kuchenko (Martin Landau) realizes that he is not out of the woods yet. Sequestered in a tiny hotel room, Kuchenko knows that he has been targeted for assassination by Commissar Vassiloff (Robert Kelljan). What he doesn't know is that Read More

1964
The Twilight Zone: Sounds and Silences

Crew: Director

Actors: John McGiver, Penny Singleton, Michael Fox, William Benedict

Synopsis: John McGiver stars as ex-Navy man Roswell G. Flemington, who insists upon running his business, and his home, in strict maritime fashion. This includes an abundance of loud noises -- whistles, bells, cannon shots, and military music -- because Flemington, like nature, abhors a vaccuum. His Read More

1964
Perry Mason: The Case of the Missing Button

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season eight of Perry Mason begins with Perry (Raymond Burr) in the middle of a natsy child-custody battle between divorcing couple Janice and Dirk Blake (Julie Adams, Ed Nelson). The child in question is the Blakes' five-year-old daughter Button (Claire Wilcox), who has just inherited a Read More

1964
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Quadripartite Affair

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sent to Yugoslavia to investigate the murder of a U.N. scientist, Solo and Illya are assigned to protect Marion Raven, who has witnessed firsthand the effects of a new fear-inducing gas. The trail of clues leads to a quartet of conspirators, led by the beautiful but lethal Gervaise Ravel, who Read More

1964
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Giuoco Piano Affair

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this sequel to the first-season Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Quadripartite Affair," Solo and Illya hope to flush out power-mad criminal Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis). To do this, they persuade feisty Marion Raven (Jill Ireland, then the wife of series regular David McCallum), to act as Read More

1964
Perry Mason: The Case of the Tragic Trophy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sleazy movie producer Tony Fry (Richard Carlson) plans to raise money for his next picture by threatening to reveal the sordid past of Joanne Pennington (Constance Towers), the wife of millionaire J.J. Pennington (Paul Stewart). What Tony doesn't know is that his fiancee Kathy (Mimsy Farmer) is Read More

1964
Gilligan's Island: Home Sweet Hut

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As a hurricane approaches the island, the seven castaways build a community hut to shield them from the storm. Unfortunately, being under the same roof for a lengthy period of time results in everybody getting on everybody else's nerves. By the time the episode arrives at its conclusion, it's a Read More

1964
The Twilight Zone: Come Wander With Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher, Hank Patterson

Synopsis: Written by Anthony Wilson, this episode stars Gary Crosby as cynical folksinger Floyd Burney. Venturing into backwoods country in search of inspiration and new material, Floyd makes the acquaintance of young Mary Rachel (Bonnie Beecher), who has the facility for extemporizing folksong lyrics. But Read More

1964
Gilligan's Island: President Gilligan

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The island needs a well, but no one has the authority to order any sort of digging. Thus, the castaways decide to hold an election to appoint a "president" of the island. As the front-running candidates, the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.) and Mr. Howell (Jim Backus) resort to every underhanded trick in Read More

1964
The Twilight Zone: The Brain Center at Whipple's

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Deacon, Ted de Corsia, Thalmus Rasulala, Burt Conroy

Synopsis: Ruthlessly efficient businessman Wallace V. Whipple (Richard Deacon) runs roughshod over the feelings of his employees when he elects to fully automate his factory. Installing computers and robots, Whipple drives longtime worker Dickerson (Ted de Corsia) to take desperate measures to protect his Read More

1964
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Iowa-Scuba Affair

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The first "official" episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., "The Iowa-Scuba Affair" was telecast on September 29, 1964, one week after the series' pilot film "The Vulcan Affair." UNCLE agent Napoleon Solo investigates when a corpse dressed in scuba-diving gear is discovered in land-locked Iowa. The Read More

1964
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Terbuf Affair

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Madlyn Rhue guest stars as Clara Valdar, the former girl friend of UNCLE agent Napoleon Solo. Clara persuades the vacationing Solo to help her smuggle Gypsy leader Emil (Jacques Aubuchon) out of a tiny police state run by the thoroughly corrupt Colonel Morisco (Alan Caillou, who also wrote this Read More

1964
The Fugitive [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the most popular and best-remembered adventure series of the 1960s, the weekly, hour-long The Fugitive made its ABC network premiere on September 17, 1963. David Janssen starred as Dr. Richard Kimble, a prominent physician who had been tried, convicted and condemned to death for the murder Read More

1963
Combat!: No Trumpets, No Drums

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Under heavy fire during a mission with King Company, Caje (Pierre Jalbert) accidentally kills a French civilian. Racked by guilt, Caje tries to make things up to the dead man's niece Micheline (Andrea Darvi), ending up as the girl's surrogate father. Well and good--except that Saunders (Vic Read More

1963
The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Crew: Director

Actors: William Shatner, Christine White, Ed Kemmer, Asa Maynor, Nick Cravat

Synopsis: Cited by many aficionados as the all-time best Twilight Zone episode, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" benefits immeasurably from a bravura performance by star William Shatner. While travelling through rough weather on a passenger plane, former mental patient Bob Wilson (Shatner) peers out of his window Read More

1963
Have Gun, Will Travel: Cream of the Jest

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Risking his life to save Caleb Musgrove (Stanley Adams) from being poisoned, Paladin (Richard Boone) finds out that his efforts are all for naught. The "poisoning" is just the latest in a long series of practical jokes perpetrated by Caleb on friends and strangers alike. Now Paladin must end Read More

1962
Have Gun, Will Travel: The Piano

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Keith Andes guest stars as Franz Lister, a celebrated German musician who has been brought to the US by his wealthy sponsor, a social-climbing former saloon hostess named Mona Lansing (Gertrude Flynn). No sooner has Lister arrived than his priceless piano is "kidnapped" and held for ransom. Read More

1961
Have Gun, Will Travel: A Drop of Blood

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jewish immigrants Nathan and Rivka Shotness (Martin Gabel, Roxane Berard), first seen in the fourth-season episode "The Fatalist", make return appearances in this entry. Paladin (Richard Boone) is invited to serve as best man on the occasion of Rivka's wedding. Unfortunately, the festivities may Read More

1961
X-15

Crew: Director

Actors: David McLean, Charles Bronson, Ralph Taeger, Brad Dexter, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: This oddly technical drama about three test pilots for the X-15 devotes a great deal of time to scientific explanations and militarese, leaving slightly less time to examine the personal lives and motivations of the three pilots. The head honcho among the pilots is Lt. Col. Lee Brandon (Charles Bronson Read More

1961
Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Medicine Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Taken from the popular television series, this video follows the adventures of bounty hunter Josh Randall in the episode "The Medicine Man." ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1960
Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Twain Shall Meet

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Taken from the popular television series, an enthusiastic reporter follows around bounty hunter Josh Randall in an episode entitled "The Twain Shall Meet." ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1960

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