John Llewellyn Moxey

John Llewellyn Moxey

Nacimiento : 1925-02-26, Argentina

Muerte : 2019-04-29

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John Llewellyn Moxey (sometimes credited as John L. Moxey or John Moxey) (February 26, 1925 – April 29, 2019) was an Argentinian-born British film and television director. He was best-known for the horror film The City of the Dead (also known as Horror Hotel, 1960) and episodes of The Saint, Magnum, P.I. and Murder, She Wrote, as well as many TV movies, including The House That Would Not Die (1970), A Taste of Evil (1971), Home for the Holidays (1972), The Night Stalker (1972), Genesis II (1973), Where Have All the People Gone? (1974), Nightmare in Badham County (1976), Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979), No Place to Hide (1981) and I, Desire (1982). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Llewellyn Moxey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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John Llewellyn Moxey

Películas

Lady Mobster
Director
Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather's staunchest defender.
Outback Bound
Director
A girl from Beverly Hills tries to find her fathers opal mine in the Australian outback.
Sadie and Son
Director
It's a family affair when a 50-ish police officer is joined by her son on the force.
Deadly Deception
Director
Laurie Shoat, a young mother, struggling with post-partum depression, is found dead and her baby is missing. The police assume it was a murder-suicide, but her husband Jack isn't convinced. He believes that his baby may still be alive and begins a search to clear his wife's name and to find the infant.
When Dreams Come True
Director
A Dallas museum tour guide finds herself having dreams that foretell killings that are attributed to a killer known as "The Perfect Murderer." She asks her boyfriend, a police detective, for help.
Through Naked Eyes
Director
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
The Cradle Will Fall
Director
Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
I, Desire
Director
A coroner's assistant, who is also a law student, gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital), prostitutes, a defrocked priest, and vampires.
¿Quién mató a Joy Morgan?
Director
La hija del director de un hospital conoce a un extraño policía, dedicado a investigar el asesinato de una famosa modelo, amiga de ella.
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Co-Producer
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Director
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
No Place to Hide
Director
A young art student frantically tries to prove that she is being stalked by a mysterious man who has threatened her life, and finds her sanity questioned by her stepmother, the family attorney, and even a psychiatrist.
The Mating Season
Director
They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose main interest is birdwatching?
The Children of An Lac
Director
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
The Solitary Man
Director
The Solitary Man es una película hecha para televisión protagonizada por Michelle Pfeiffer.
Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Director
In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
The Power Within
Director
A prospective about a daredevil flyer, barnstorming for county fairs, who becomes a human dynamo after being struck by lightning and is menaced by enemy agents determined to find out the secret of his incredible powers.
Sanctuary of Fear
Director
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
The Courage and the Passion
Director
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
The President's Mistress
Director
A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
Intimate Strangers
Director
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Panic in Echo Park
Director
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Nightmare in Badham County
Director
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
Charlie's Angels
Director
When a wealthy winegrower disappears, the three private investigators go undercover at the vineyard to track down the whereabouts of the body. If the body doesn't turn up in a certain amount of time, the inheritance will be presented to the man's second wife, Rachel, instead of his long-lost daughter, Janet.
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Director
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
Conspiracy of Terror
Director
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
Foster & Laurie
Director
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Director
A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
A casa por vacaciones
Director
Un hombre enfermo convoca a sus cuatro hijas a su casa para Navidad y les pide que maten a su nueva esposa, quien sospecha que lo está envenenando.
¿Dónde está todo el mundo?
Director
La familia Anders organiza unas vacaciones a una región montañosa californiana. Cuando todos ellos se encontraban en el interior de una caverna, se produce una explosión solar. Al salir del interior del lugar descubren que ahora son los únicos habitantes del planeta Tierra.
Genesis II
Director
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
The Bounty Man
Director
Kinkaid is a rugged, hard-driving bounty hunter, determined to find outlaw Billy Riddle. He tracks Billy, takes him captive, and starts the long trek to justice. However, this journey may lead him to dire consequences... a gang of cut-throats headed by Angus Keough is pursuing them, after the bounty for themselves.
Hardcase
Director
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
Una historia alucinante
Director
Un periodista de un diario de Las Vegas investiga una serie de asesinatos cometidos, presuntamente, por un vampiro. (FILMAFFINITY) Tu crítica
The Death of Me Yet
Director
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
La Presencia del Diablo
Director
Años después de sufrir un traumático ataque de un desconocido que la dejó dos años en shock, Susan (Bárbara Parkins), vuelve a la casa de sus padres donde todo sucedió. Allí encuentra que su cariñosa madre (Barbara Stanwyck), se ha casado por segunda vez y vive una tormentosa relación con su nuevo marido. Ella trata de revivir los sucesos de cuando era niña con el fin de recordar quién la atacó aquel día.
El día que requisaron los niños
Director
En un oscuro futuro superpoblado, donde a cada pareja sólo se permite tener un niño y donde las personas mayores de 65 años tienen prohibida la atención médica bajo un conjunto muy draconiano de leyes, una pareja joven, embarazada de su segundo hijo (el primero murió poco después de nacer) intentan conseguir la ayuda de un anciano ex senador de los EE.UU. para ayudarles a escapar a Canadá.
Escape
Director
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
The House That Would Not Die
Director
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
San Francisco International
Director
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
A Hatful of Rain
Director
A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) television.
Laura
Director
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dial M for Murder
Director
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
The Solarnauts
Director
A pilot for an unproduced British science fiction space adventure series.
Circus of Fear
Director
Un detective que investiga una serie de asesinatos y robos a mano sospecha que los miembros de un circo ambulante pueden estar implicados.
Strangler's Web
Director
What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.
Face of a Stranger
Director
A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.
Downfall
Director
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
Ricochet
Director
Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him.
The £20,000 Kiss
Director
An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
Death Trap
Director
A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death.
El hotel del terror
Director
Una estudiante de historia americana llega al pueblo de Whitewood, en Nueva Inglaterra, donde a finales del siglo XVII la caza de brujas se saldó con la ejecución de varias personas acusadas del delito de brujería. El tema todavía pervive en cuentos y leyendas populares, que la joven quiere investigar. Al llegar a la pequeña población se percatará de que los pocos habitantes que todavía viven en aquel aislado rincón guardan algún oscuro secreto.
El espía de Rommel
Screenplay
Un agente alemán en Libia vuelve a Rommel con información falsa.
El espía de Rommel
Director
Un agente alemán en Libia vuelve a Rommel con información falsa.