Gordon Douglas was an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City

New York City

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.

Hal Roach and Our Gang

Born Gordon Douglas Brickner, Gordon Douglas began his career as a child actor

Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

. As a teenager, he worked at the Hal Roach Studios, working in the office and appearing in bit parts in various Hal Roach

Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 films. He made walk-on appearances in at least three Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

 shorts: Teacher’s Pet, Big Ears

Big Ears

Big Ears is a 1931 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 108th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...

, and Birthday Blues

Birthday Blues

Birthday Blues is a 1932 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 118th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...

. By 1934, Douglas was assistant to director Gus Meins

Gus Meins

Gus Meins was a German-American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.-Career:...

, and served as assistant director on Laurel and Hardy’s 1934 film Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released in November 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet , March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden Soldiers .Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film...

, and on the Our Gang comedies made between 1934 and mid-1936.

Beginning with Bored of Education

Bored of Education

Bored of Education is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 146th entry in the Our Gang series to be released.-Plot:...

in 1936, Our Gang moved from two-reel (twenty-minute) comedies to one-reel (ten-minute) comedies, and Douglas became the senior director of the series. Bored of Education won the 1936 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...

, and was the only Our Gang entry ever honored with the award. Douglas remained with the series as director for two years. His Our Gang shorts, featuring Spanky

George McFarland

George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...

, Alfalfa

Carl Switzer

Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...

, Darla

Darla Hood

Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...

, Porky, Buckwheat, Waldo, Butch

Tommy Bond

Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.-Early years...

, and Woim

Sidney Kibrick

Sidney Kibrick is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1935 to 1939. From 1937 to 1939, he portrayed "The Woim", the sidekick of the neighborhood bully "Butch", played by Tommy Bond.He is the brother of the late Leonard Kibrick,...

, are the most familiar in the series’ 22-year canon.

Hal Roach sold the Our Gang unit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

 in May 1938. Douglas directed two MGM Our Gangs on loan from Roach before deciding that he could not get used to the more industrialized atmosphere at the larger studio. Returning to his home studio, Douglas directed Zenobia

Zenobia (film)

Zenobia is a 1939 comedy film starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker, June Lang, Stepin Fetchit, and Hattie McDaniel...

with Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:...

 and Harry Langdon

Harry Langdon

Harry Philmore Langdon was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films , and talkies. He was briefly partnered with Oliver Hardy.-Life and career:...

, Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea is a 1940 American film directed by Gordon Douglas, distributed by United Artists, and Laurel and Hardy's last film produced by Hal Roach Studio.- Plot :...

with Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

, and All-American Co-Ed with former Our Gang member Johnny Downs

Johnny Downs

Johnny Downs was an American actor. Son of a Naval aviator, he was taken to Hollywood in 1921 when his father was transferred to the San Diego naval base. He began his career as a child actor, most notably playing Johnny in the Our Gang short series from 1923 to 1926...

.

Later years

Douglas's last picture for Roach was the Nazi satire The Devil with Hitler

The Devil with Hitler

The Devil with Hitler is a 1942 comedy short propaganda film that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners. When the board of directors of Hell want Adolf Hitler to take charge, the Devil tries to save his job by making the German dictator perform a good deed....

(1942). He might have stayed with Roach indefinitely, but Roach turned his studio over to the U. S. Army for the production of wartime training films. Douglas moved on to RKO Radio Pictures, where he directed low-budget entries in the studio's series featuring The Great Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve , initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first Introduced to...

, Brown and Carney

Brown and Carney

Brown and Carney was a comedy duo consisting of Wally Brown and Alan Carney. The name "Brown and Carney" was rarely used in their era of comedy and still is rarely used today.-Notes:...

, The Falcon, and Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate...

. He was sometimes billed as Gordon M. Douglas.

He migrated from there to Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

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 in 1948, and then to Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 in 1950. At Warners, Douglas directed a number of successful films, including Liberace

Liberace

Wladziu Valentino Liberace , best known simply as Liberace, was a famous American pianist and vocalist.In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television and endorsements, Liberace became world-renowned...

's Sincerely Yours (1955) and the sci-fi classic Them!. Later films for other studios included Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...

's Call Me Bwana

Call Me Bwana

Call Me Bwana is a 1963 farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg, and directed by Gordon Douglas. It is largely set in Africa. It is the only film made by EON Productions which is not about the Ian Fleming spy character, James Bond and was made by most of the same film crew as Dr...

, Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

's The Detective

The Detective (1968 film)

The Detective is a 1968 film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman and Robert Duvall....

, Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...

's They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!

They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!

They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! is a 1970 film; a sequel to In the Heat of the Night . Sidney Poitier reprised his role of police detective Virgil Tibbs, though in this sequel, Tibbs is working for the San Francisco Police rather than the Philadelphia Police or the Pasadena Police .-Plot:The plot...

and Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

's Follow That Dream

Follow that Dream

Follow That Dream is a 1962 musical film starring Elvis Presley made by Mirisch Productions. The movie was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P. Powell. Producer Walter Mirisch liked the song Follow that Dream and retitled the picture...

.

Death

Gordon Douglas died of cancer on September 29, 1993 in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, aged 85. He was survived by his wife Julia Mack Douglas, son Gary Douglas, daughter Cathie Graham, and a grandson.

Filmography

• The Infernal Triangle (1935)
• Lucky Beginners (1935)
• General Spanky
  General Spanky
  General Spanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...
  
  (1936)
• Spooky Hooky
  Spooky Hooky
  Spooky Hooky is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 149th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Pay As You Exit
  Pay as You Exit
  Pay as You Exit is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 148th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Two Too Young
  Two Too Young
  Two Too Young is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 147th Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Bored of Education
  Bored of Education
  Bored of Education is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 146th entry in the Our Gang series to be released.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Our Gang Follies of 1938
  Our Gang Follies of 1938
  Our Gang Follies of 1938 is a 1937 American musical short subject, the 161st short subject entry in Hal Roach's Our Gang series...
  
  (1937)
• The Pigskin Palooka
  The Pigskin Palooka
  The Pigskin Palooka is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 159th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Framing Youth
  Framing Youth
  Framing Youth is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 158th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Fishy Tales
  Fishy Tales
  Fishy Tales is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 157th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Night 'n' Gales
  Night 'n' Gales
  Night 'n' Gales is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 156th Our Gang short Night 'n' Gales is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 156th Our Gang short Night 'n' Gales is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon...
  
  (1937)
• Roamin' Holiday
  Roamin' Holiday
  Roamin' Holiday is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 155th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Three Smart Boys
  Three Smart Boys
  Three Smart Boys is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas.It was the 153rd Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Rushin' Ballet
  Rushin' Ballet
  Rushin' Ballet is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 154th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Hearts Are Thumps
  Hearts Are Thumps
  Hearts Are Thumps is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 152nd Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Glove Taps
  Glove Taps
  Glove Taps is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 151st Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Reunion in Rhythm
  Reunion in Rhythm
  Reunion in Rhythm is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 150th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Aladdin's Lantern
  Aladdin's Lantern
  Alladin's Lantern is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 171st Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• The Little Ranger
  The Little Ranger
  The Little Ranger is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 169th Our Gang short that was released...
  
  (1938)
• Hide and Shriek
  Hide and Shriek
  Hide and Shriek is a 1938 Our Gang short subject directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 168th Our Gang entry in the series, and the last to involve series creator Hal Roach.-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• Feed 'em and Weep
  Feed 'em and Weep
  Feed 'em and Weep is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 166th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• Came the Brawn
  Came the Brawn
  Came the Brawn is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 165th entry in the Our Gang series-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• Bear Facts
  Bear Facts (film)
  Bear Facts is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 163rd Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• Canned Fishing
  Canned Fishing
  Canned Fishing is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 162nd Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• Zenobia
  Zenobia (film)
  Zenobia is a 1939 comedy film starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker, June Lang, Stepin Fetchit, and Hattie McDaniel...
  
  (1939)
• Saps at Sea
  Saps at Sea
  Saps at Sea is a 1940 American film directed by Gordon Douglas, distributed by United Artists, and Laurel and Hardy's last film produced by Hal Roach Studio.- Plot :...
  
  (1940)
• Niagara Falls
  Niagara Falls (1941 film)
  Niagara Falls is a 1941 American comedy of errors film directed by Gordon Douglas that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners.- Plot summary :A peanut vendor sights a man named Sam Sawyer attempting suicide by jumping off a cliff into the waters below...
  
  (1941)
• Broadway Limited (1941)
• The Great Gildersleeve
  The Great Gildersleeve
  The Great Gildersleeve , initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first Introduced to...
  
  (1942)
• The Devil with Hitler
  The Devil with Hitler
  The Devil with Hitler is a 1942 comedy short propaganda film that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners. When the board of directors of Hell want Adolf Hitler to take charge, the Devil tries to save his job by making the German dictator perform a good deed....
  
  (1942)
• Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
• Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943)
• The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
• Girl Rush (1944)
• Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
• A Night of Adventure (1944)
• First Yank into Tokyo
  First Yank into Tokyo
  First Yank into Tokyo is a 1945 United States war film; it takes place within World War II. It was directed by Gordon Douglas.-Plot:In the film, the U.S. government assigns Major Steve Ross to receive plastic surgery to appear Japanese; Ross had lived in Japan and is well versed with Japanese culture...
  
  (1945)
• Zombies on Broadway
  Zombies on Broadway
  Zombies on Broadway is an American Comedy-horror film released in 1945.-Plot summary:The duo of Jerry Miles and Mike Strager are employed as Broadway press agents. Miles and Strager's latest idea is to hire a genuine zombie for the opening of a new nightclub...
  
  (1945)
• San Quentin (1946)
• Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
  Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
  Dick Tracy vs. Cueball is a 1946 film starring Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy. It is the second part of the Dick Tracy quadrilogy.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1946)
• Walk a Crooked Mile
  Walk a Crooked Mile
  Walk a Crooked Mile is an American film noir directed by Gordon Douglas. The drama features Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe and Louise Allbritton.-Plot:...
  
  (1948)
• The Black Arrow (1948)
• If You Knew Susie
  If You Knew Susie
  "If You Knew Susie" is the title of a popular song from the 1920s written by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Meyer.With a name immortally linked with many hits, Eddie Cantor's best-known 1920s success was undoubtedly "If You Knew Susie", which was a U.S...
  
  (1948)
• Mr. Soft Touch
  Mr. Soft Touch
  Mr. Soft Touch is a 1949 film about a man on the run from the Mob. It stars Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes.-Plot:Polish American Joe Miracle returns from fighting in World War II, only to find his San Francisco nightclub under the control of the Mob, and his friend and partner Leo missing and...
  
  (1949)
• The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)

• Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a 1950 film noir starring James Cagney, directed by Gordon Douglas and based on the novel by Horace McCoy. The film was banned in Ohio as "a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission."Supporting Cagney...
  
  (1950)
• Rogues of Sherwood Forest
  Rogues of Sherwood Forest
  Rogues of Sherwood Forest is a 1950 Technicolor Columbia Pictures film directed by Gordon Douglas and featuring John Derek as Robin the Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Robin Hood, Diana Lynn as Lady Marianne, and the late Alan Hale, Sr...
  
  (1950)
• Fortunes of Captain Blood
  Fortunes of Captain Blood
  Fortunes of Captain Blood is a pirate film directed by Gordon Douglas. Based on the famous Captain Blood depicted in the novel by Rafael Sabatini, Fortunes was produced by Columbia Pictures as yet another remake about the notorious swashbuckler. The film is complete with daring sword fights,...
  
  (1950)
• The Nevadan
  The Nevadan
  The Nevadan is a 1950 American film directed by Gordon Douglas.The film is also known as The Man from Nevada in the United Kingdom.- Cast :*Randolph Scott as Andrew Barclay*Dorothy Malone as Karen Galt*Forrest Tucker as Tom Tanner...
  
  (1950)
• Come Fill the Cup
  Come Fill the Cup
  Come Fill the Cup is a 1951 film starring James Cagney and Gig Young. Cagney plays an alcoholic newspaperman. Cagney has the memorable line, "Don't you see? I am home," which he says in response to the query, "Why don't you go home?": once near the beginning when he's drinking; once at the end when...
  
  (1951)
• I Was a Communist for the FBI
  I Was a Communist for the FBI
  I Was a Communist for the FBI is the name of a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The stories were later turned into a best-selling book, an American espionage thriller radio series and motion picture in the early 1950s.The story follows Cvetic, who...
  
  (1951)
• Only the Valiant
  Only the Valiant
  Only the Valiant is a 1951 western film produced by William Cagney , directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck and Barbara Payton. The screenplay was written by Edmund H...
  
  (1951)
• The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
• The Iron Mistress (1952)
• Mara Maru (1952)
• So This Is Love (1953)
• The Charge at Feather River
  The Charge at Feather River
  The Charge at Feather River is a 1953 Western film directed by Gordon Douglas, was originally released in 3D with lots of arrows, lances, and other weapons flying directly at the audience in several scenes....
  
  (1953)
• She's Back on Broadway (1953)
• Young at Heart
  Young at Heart (1954 film)
  Young at Heart is a 1954 film, directed by Gordon Douglas. It was a remake of the 1938 film Four Daughters, and it starred Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Jr and Dorothy Malone and was the first of five films that Gordon Douglas directed with Frank...
  
  (1954)
• Them! (1954)
• Sincerely Yours (1955)
• The McConnell Story
  The McConnell Story
  The McConnell Story is a dramatization of the life and career of U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph C. McConnell , who served as a navigator in World War II before becoming the top American ace during the Korean War. He was killed while serving as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave...
  
  (1955)
• Santiago (1956)
• Bombers B-52 (1957)
• The Big Land (1957)
• The Fiend Who Walked the West
  The Fiend Who Walked the West
  The Fiend Who Walked the West is a Western based on the 1947 film noir Kiss of Death. The film stars Robert Evans, Hugh O'Brian, Linda Cristal, and Stephen McNally.-External links:*...
  
  (1958)
• Fort Dobbs
  Fort Dobbs
  Fort Dobbs is the first of three westerns, directed by Gordon Douglas, which starred Clint Walker. Based on a screenplay by George W. George and Burt Kennedy, with black-and-white photography provided by William H...
  
  (1958)
• Yellowstone Kelly
  Yellowstone Kelly
  Yellowstone Kelly is a 1959 Warner Bros Western Technicolor movie based upon a novel by Heck Allen, with a screenplay by Burt Kennedy starring Clint Walker as Yellowstone Luther Kelly, and directed by Gordon Douglas...
  
  (1959)
• Up Periscope
  Up Periscope
  Up Periscope is a 1959 World War II drama starring James Garner as a Navy frogman fighting the Japanese. The supporting cast includes Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, and Alan Hale, Jr.. The film was written by Richard H. Landau and Robb White from White's novel, produced by Aubrey Schenk, and...
  
  (1959)
• Claudelle Inglish (1961)
• Gold of the Seven Saints
  Gold of the Seven Saints
  Gold of the Seven Saints is a western film adaptation of a 1957 Steve Frazee novel titled Desert Guns. Released by Warner Brothers in 1961, this 88-minute film starred Clint Walker, Roger Moore, Leticia Roman, Robert Middleton, and Chill Wills....
  
  (1961)
• The Sins of Rachel Cade
  The Sins of Rachel Cade
  The Sins of Rachel Cade is a 1961 drama film starring Angie Dickinson in the title role as well as Peter Finch and Roger Moore.-Plot:During World War II, Protestant medical missionary Rachel comes to the village of Dibela in the Belgian Congo. Widowed military administrator Colonel Derode is...
  
  (1961)
• Follow that Dream
  Follow that Dream
  Follow That Dream is a 1962 musical film starring Elvis Presley made by Mirisch Productions. The movie was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P. Powell. Producer Walter Mirisch liked the song Follow that Dream and retitled the picture...
  
  (1962)
• Call Me Bwana
  Call Me Bwana
  Call Me Bwana is a 1963 farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg, and directed by Gordon Douglas. It is largely set in Africa. It is the only film made by EON Productions which is not about the Ian Fleming spy character, James Bond and was made by most of the same film crew as Dr...
  
  (1963)
• Rio Conchos
  Rio Conchos (1964 film)
  Rio Conchos is a 1964 Cinemascope Western starring Stuart Whitman, Richard Boone, Tony Franciosa, Edmund O'Brien, and in his motion picture debut, Jim Brown....
  
  (1964)
• Robin and the 7 Hoods
  Robin and the 7 Hoods
  Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film that transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Frank Sinatra, with a screenplay by David R. Schwartz, the movie stars members of the Rat Pack as well as Bing Crosby, Peter...
  
  (1964)
• Sylvia
  Sylvia (1965 film)
  Sylvia is a drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, written by Sydney Boehm and starring George Maharis, Carroll Baker and Peter Lawford.Released by Paramount Pictures, it was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Plot:...
  
  (1965)
• Harlow
  Harlow (film)
  Harlow is a biographical film about the life of film star Jean Harlow. It stars Carroll Baker in the title role. It was released in 1965 by Paramount Pictures, shortly after another film with the same title and subject...
  
  (1965)
• Way...Way Out
  Way...Way Out
  Way...Way Out is a 1966 American film comedy starring Jerry Lewis and released by 20th Century Fox on October 21, 1966.-Plot:The year is 1989, and the United States decides to send a married couple to live on the moon and operate a U.S. weather station...
  
  (1966)
• Stagecoach
  Stagecoach (1966 film)
  Stagecoach is a 1966 American film, a remake of the 1939 John Ford western Stagecoach. Slim Pickens replaced Andy Devine as the driver, Alex Cord played the Ringo Kid , Ann-Margret succeeded Claire Trevor as the prostitute Dallas, and Bing Crosby played Thomas Mitchell's Oscar-winning part as the...
  
  (1966)
• Tony Rome
  Tony Rome
  Tony Rome is a 1967 detective film starring Frank Sinatra and directed by Gordon Douglas, adapted from Marvin Albert's novel Miami Mayhem. Filming took place on location in Miami, Florida, with some scenes being shot during the day at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, where Sinatra was performing in...
  
  (1967)
• Chuka
  Chuka (film)
  Chuka is a 1967 American western film starring Rod Taylor who also produced and worked on the screenplay. The film began a series of tough guy roles for Taylor. A story of honor, debt, and personal redemption, it was directed by Gordon Douglas and is based on 1961 novel by Richard Jessup, who...
  
  (1967)
• In Like Flint
  In Like Flint
  In Like Flint is a 1967 film directed by Gordon Douglas, the sequel to the parody spy film Our Man Flint . It posits an international feminist conspiracy to depose the ruling American patriarchy with a feminist matriarchy. To achieve and establish it, they kidnap and replace the U.S. President,...
  
  (1967)
• Lady in Cement
  Lady In Cement
  Lady In Cement is a 1968 detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte. A sequel to the 1967 film Tony Rome, and based on the novel by Marvin H...
  
  (1968)
• The Detective
  The Detective (1968 film)
  The Detective is a 1968 film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman and Robert Duvall....
  
  (1968)
• Barquero (1970)
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
  They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
  They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! is a 1970 film; a sequel to In the Heat of the Night . Sidney Poitier reprised his role of police detective Virgil Tibbs, though in this sequel, Tibbs is working for the San Francisco Police rather than the Philadelphia Police or the Pasadena Police .-Plot:The plot...
  
  (1970)
• Skullduggery
  Skullduggery (film)
  Skullduggery is a 1970 science fiction film starring Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark and Edward Fox.The screenplay is based on the French novel Les Animaux dénaturés by Jean Bruller.-Plot:...
  
  (1970)
• Skin Game
  Skin Game
  Skin Game is a 1971 movie comedy western starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr.- Plot :Quincy Drew and Jason O'Rourke travel from town to town in the south of the United States during the slavery era. Drew claims to be a down-on-his-luck slave owner who is selling O'Rourke as a slave...
  
  (1971)
• Viva Knievel!
  Viva Knievel!
  As it happens, Evel does crash while attempting the stunt, and though badly injured, survives. He berates Morgan, announces his retirement, and is taken to the hospital....
  
  (1977)

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