Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff

Birth : 1931-04-07, Toronto, Canada

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ted Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931), sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ted Kotcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ted Kotcheff

Movies

The Planters
Cliff Man / Last 'Hello' Man (voice)
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three friends in one may be more than she bargained for.
Erase and Forget
Himself
'Bo' Gritz is one of America's highest decorated Vietnam veterans and the real life inspiration behind Rambo. He also killed 400 people, turned against Washington and moved to the Nevada desert where he now sleeps with many weapons. Filmed over ten years using impressive visual material, Zimmerman's portrait of Bo embodies contemporary American society in all its dizzying complexity and contradictions.
Soul Of An Artist
Director
Everyone is creative in one way or another. But for some, their journey reaches a fork in the road where they must leave their old, safe life behind and venture into an unfamiliar and risky territory. They are not afraid to take chances and against all odds, they dare to pursue their dreams just to make this world a little bit more beautiful to live in. Every day they wake up without thinking what to eat, or how to pay their bills - they just want to create. And that's why they inspire others. Being a classic Motown artist and having decades of a successful music career, William Goldstein discovers that he posses a very rare talent. A talent of creating instant composition. And that pushes him to start his search for an answer to a very puzzling question - what is A Soul of An Artist?
Fearless
Director
An aging actress experiencing early signs of Alzheimer's meets a suicidal young doctor who doesn't want to be a doctor.
Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema
Self
Documentary interview the director Ted Kotcheff on his film 'Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?'
Barney's Version
Train Conductor
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Not Quite Hollywood
Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Shattered Glass
Marty Peretz
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.
Drawing First Blood
Himself
Twenty years later, the cast and crew of 'First Blood' look back on the making of the first Rambo film.
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly
Director
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Borrowed Hearts
Director
Single mom Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) and her daughter Zoey pretend to be Kathleen's boss's "family" so he can close a major business deal with the mysterious Mexican financier Javier Del Campo.
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover
Director
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
The Shooter
Director
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Family of Cops
Director
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two—the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna, and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie. Neither Paul nor Eddie believe that Jackie could have committed the murder, and soon Paul is using himself as a decoy in a bid to find out more about what Anna does and doesn't know about her husband's death.
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
Director
Evan, a beautiful bounty hunter after a seductively handsome and charming con man who makes his living using his looks and wit to defraud women of their fortunes. This time Evan has met her match and he won't give up without a fight. Then, it's Christmas Eve at Fort Louis and Chandler has the weekend off. Chandler and two of her girlfriends opt for a night of wild abandon at the local bar. Finally, men have been taking care of Alicia all of her life. Now she is forced to make a decision -either hustle the streets or hustle the game of pool...and pool it is.
Love on the Run
Director
A pilot to a prospective series involving a pair of mismatched newlyweds who are set up by her wealthy dad as partners in a travel business for thrill seekers known as "Adventures Inc." that allows clients to go anywhere and do anything for a price.
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
Director
Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A young wife discovers lipstick on her husband's collar. She follows him, meets his mistress, and has a lesbian fling with her. Talk To Me, Baby: A man caught cheating in a bar by his wife admits his past dalliances on the drive home, which gets his wife aroused.
Folks!
Director
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.
Weekend at Bernie's
Jack Parker
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets killed and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
Weekend at Bernie's
Director
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets killed and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
Winter People
Director
Wayland Jackson (Russell), a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are taken in by Collie Wright (McGillis), a single mother with an illegitimate baby, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. Trouble starts when the identity of her baby's father is revealed.
Switching Channels
Director
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
The Check Is in the Mail...
Executive Producer
Frustrated with all the minor irritants of the rat-race Richard Jackson decides to buy a goat, disconnect the electricity and become self-sufficient. But will this life be any less annoying?
Joshua Then and Now
Director
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Uncommon Valor
Executive Producer
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
Uncommon Valor
Director
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
Split Image
Producer
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Split Image
Director
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
First Blood
Director
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.
North Dallas Forty
Screenplay
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
North Dallas Forty
Director
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Director
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Fun with Dick and Jane
Director
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Director
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
Billy Two Hats
Director
An aging outlaw helps a young half-breed learn the ropes.
Ackerman, Dougall & Harker
Director
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course.
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Director
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Wake in Fright
Director
Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Director
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Of Mice and Men
Director
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
The Desperate Hours
Director
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
The Human Voice
Director
A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.
Life at the Top
Director
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
The Trial of Dr. Fancy
Director
A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.
Tiara Tahiti
Director
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
Lena, O My Lena
Director
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.
Hot Summer Night
Director
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfriend, he realises that racial prejudice is rife within his own home. This powerful drama exposes the deep-seated racial tensions hidden in British family life during the late 1950s. Written for the stage by Unity Theatre's Ted Willis, this television recording was filmed a few weeks after the play's successful West End run, and most of the stage cast repeat their roles here, including the terrific John Slater, Andree Melly and Lloyd Reckord. The drama's interracial kiss is probably the first to be shown on British TV.
Segal
Self
A documentary focusing on the life and career of actor George Segal.