Robert Butler

Robert Butler

Nacimiento : 1927-11-17, Los Angeles, California, USA

Historia

Robert Butler is an American film and television director.

Perfil

Robert Butler

Películas

Turbulence: abróchense los cinturones
Director
Ray Weaver es un peligroso delincuente que acaba de ser detenido en Nueva York, y va a ser trasladado en avión hasta Los Ángeles junto a otro preso. Durante el vuelo, su compañero logra escapar, y organiza una auténtica carnicería entre la tripulación y los agentes que les vigilan. (FILMAFFINITY)
Milla blanca
Director
Producción televisiva basada en hechos reales. Dan Cutler, el dueño de una agencia de publicidad de Nueva York, organizó para sus empleados un viaje a las montañas de Canadá. Allí practicarían distintos deportes de aventura como el rafting, pero nada salió como se esperaban los trabajadores porque las actividades resultaron ser mucho más peligrosas de lo que esperaban. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fuera de su tiempo
Executive Producer
Los Angeles, año 2088. El oficial de policia Channing Taylor, descendiente del legendario científico Max Taylor, sigue las huellas del peligroso criminal, Richard Marcus, que ha robado una maquina del tiempo y va a escapar a través de ella. Taylor consigue penetrar en la maquina y se encuentra, de repente, en 1988, pero acompañado del terrible asesino.
Fuera de su tiempo
Director
Los Angeles, año 2088. El oficial de policia Channing Taylor, descendiente del legendario científico Max Taylor, sigue las huellas del peligroso criminal, Richard Marcus, que ha robado una maquina del tiempo y va a escapar a través de ella. Taylor consigue penetrar en la maquina y se encuentra, de repente, en 1988, pero acompañado del terrible asesino.
Long Time Gone
Director
A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
Concrete Beat
Director
A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.
Los albóndigas en remojo
Director
Los cuatro peores estudiantes del país han terminado en la peor universidad de la nación, un centro que no ha ganado una sola distinción en toda su historia. El rector los reúne en su despacho y, con alguna amenaza y sobre todo con el compromiso de regalarles la licenciatura que elijan, les obliga a participar en la carrera de botes hinchables que enfrentará a todas las universidades del país.
Los ligones del Beverly Plaza
Director
Narra las aventuras de unos aparcacoches de un hotel de lujo de Beverly Hills.
Secuestro en Central Park
Director
Un psicópata ex convicto secuestra por error a la hija de Boyd, un ex-policia. La policía de Nueva York es incapaz de encontrar al responsable. Boyd decide investigar por su cuenta, con la ayuda de Marie, para encontrar a su hija.
La herencia de los Bloodshy
Director
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Director
This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up to track down a pair of train robbers, suspects in the shooting of their father.
A Question of Guilt
Director
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Mayday at 40,000 Feet!
Director
The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.
In the Glitter Palace
Director
The ex-girlfriend of a laywer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
James Dean
Director
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.
Dark Victory
Director
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Strange New World
Director
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
Black Bart
Producer
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
Black Bart
Director
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
The Ultimate Thrill
Director
At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.
The Blue Knight
Director
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
Te veo y no te veo
Director
Un rayo cae en el laboratorio de un colegio y el experimento que estaban realizando se convierte en un líquido capaz de volver invisibles a las personas u objetos. Gracias a esa fórmula, el decano podría ganar un premio científico que resuelva los problemas financieros del colegio. Sin embargo, un hombre avaro intenta robar la fórmula, para convertir la escuela en un parque de atracciones y ganar un montón de dinero.
La muerte está en un dilema
Director
La muerte adopta forma humana y visita la Tierra para tratar de averiguar por qué los seres humanos quieren aferrarse desesperadamente a la vida. Inesperadamente, se enamora de una mujer joven y bella.
Don Quijote del Oeste
Director
Un viejo y malhumorado propietario de un rancho lucha por vivir su vida como él quiere, y no como quieren otros, incluida la ley.
Un ejecutivo muy mono
Director
Steven Post (Kurt Russell) es un joven que trabaja como mensajero en una cadena de televisión y que tiene a un mono como mascota. Un día, descubre que su mono es capaz de vaticinar el éxito o el fracaso de los programas del canal con un criterio más acertado que los propios ejecutivos del lugar, algo que el chico aprovechará para beneficiarse económicamente.
Mi cerebro es electrónico
Director
Por accidente, el contenido de una enciclopedia informática se transfiere al cerebro de Dexter Riley, un universitario no muy dotado. Debido a sus conocimientos recién adquiridos decide competir en un concurso entre varias universidades, donde consigue todos los puntos. Un niño prodigio de otra universidad se entera de su falsa sabiduría y hace todo lo posible para desacreditar a Dexter.
Guns in the Heather
Director
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'
Heart of Darkness
Assistant Director
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
No Right to Kill
Assistant Director
This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast. Volume One features 2 one-hour dramatic programs that feature John Cassavetes. Climax! ran for four years - This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame that lead to a feature film of the same titles. On August 9th, 1956 - they showed No Right to Kill directed by Buzz Kulik and starring John Cassavetes, Robert H. Harris, Joe Mantell and Terry Moore.