John Newland
Nacimiento : 1917-11-23, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Muerte : 2000-01-10
Historia
John Newland was an American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter.
In 1959, Newland became the host and director of the paranormal television series One Step Beyond. The series ended its run in 1961 and Newland later hosted its short-lived counterpart The Next Step Beyond in 1978.
Following the demise of his One Step Beyond, Newland directed one of the early 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes called "The Double Affair". His episode was given additional footage and released to cinemas as a motion picture titled The Spy with My Face. In 1966 he produced and directed all episodes but one of the serious spy series The Man Who Never Was for which he also served as a writer. Some episodes were strung together and released outside the United States as a film called Danger Has Two Faces. He later directed episodes of The Sixth Sense, and Police Woman. In addition to acting, directing, and screenwriting, he produced several television movies.
Producer
Dos viajeros del tiempo que vienen del año 2586 aparecen en la vida de Scott, un profesor de historia que investiga una vieja fotografía. Uno de los viajeros en el tiempo está decidido a cambiar el curso de la historia, mientras que el otro trata de detenerlo. La fascinación de Scott por el Viejo Oeste es muy útil cuando todos vuelven a 1886.
Producer
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En París, en vísperas de la ocupación de la ciudad por las tropas nazis, un médico eslavo, al que busca la Gestapo, conoce a una joven de la que se enamora.
Executive Producer
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Executive Producer
Henry Hawksworth (David Birney) is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann (Dee Wallace) and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.
Executive Producer
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
Producer
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
Director
Attractive, affluent married couple Mitch and Lindy Garrison sail their yacht to Tahiti to recharge their relationship and add spice to their upper-middle-class lives, but things don't go as planned when they wind up falling overboard.
Director
An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.
Director
The marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism.
Director
A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.
Director
Alex y Sally Farnham se mudan a la casa de la abuela de Sally, quien ha fallecido recientemente. Mientras se encuentran en proceso de reacondicionar la casa, Sally se topa con una chimenea sellada en el estudio de su abuela. Contratando a Mr. Harris, un carpintero que había trabajado en esa casa cuando la abuela de Sally la habitaba, le piden que derribe el sello. Pero Harris le advierte que algunas cosas deben quedarse como están. Sally comienza a percibir voces que provienen de la chimenea. Finalmente Sally consigue que la chimenea sea demolida, sin saber que ha liberado un portal donde moran unos pequeños demonios, que comienzan a deambular por la casa, y quieren apoderarse de Sally a toda costa.
Director
A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
Director
A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.
Director
Una mujer trata con un matrimonio infeliz, la muerte de su amante y la participación de su hijo en un crimen.
Director
A U.S. spy and East German police duke it out in a battle of wits, fisticuffs and killing. The spy assumes the ID of a wealthy look-alike that the commies kill. But will his wife spill the beans in this Cold War espionage thriller?
Director
Un grupo de científicos están investigando sobre un arma que pueda defender al planeta Tierra de una posible invasión de extraterrestres. También se dan cuenta de que si este arma pudiera caer en malas manos sería la destrucción total de la Tierra. Por todo esto deciden ocultar la fórmula en un remoto lugar de los Alpes suizos. La misión de guardar el arsenal recae en Alejandro Waverly, un agente internacional de las Naciones Unidas. Pero, a pesar de todo su sigilo, la información de la existencia de esta fórmula llega a oidos de una organización criminal que quiere hacerse con el control de todo el mundo.
Director
White magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.
Ellis Corbett
White magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.
Director
A New York City probation officer, noted for his sympathy with delinquents, put to a severe test when his daughter falls for a boy whom circumstances force into breaking the law.
Director
When a driven business man suffers a series of heart attacks, he and his family must reassess their values.
Peter Winslow
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
Algernon 'Algy' Longworth
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two soldiers were part of a set of thirteen which formed the key to a hidden vault of treasure. Following some clever sleuthing and set-up on Drummond's part, the guilty man is trapped in the vault,which is hidden behind the fireplace.
Algy Longworth
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
