Don Taylor

Don Taylor

Рождение : 1920-12-13, Freeport, Pennsylvania, USA

Смерть : 1998-12-29

История

Don Taylor was an American movie actor and director best known for his performances in 1950s classics like Stalag 17 and Father of the Bride and the 1948 film noir The Naked City. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Tom Sawyer (1973).

Профиль

Don Taylor
Don Taylor
Don Taylor

Фильмы

Holy Wars
Himself
Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which man will be left standing? Touching down in four hotbeds of religious fundamentalism - Pakistan, Lebanon, UK, and heartland America - HolyWars goes behind the scenes of the 1400 year old conflict between Islam and Christianity. The film follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world. Tracking their lives from the onset of the "War on Terror" to the election of Barack Obama, HolyWars shows that even the most radical of believers can be transformed by our changing world
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
The Diamond Trap
Director
When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go down at a renowned gallery, they enlist one of their suspects, gallery employee Tara Holden (Brooke Shields). But an attempt to foil the robbery explodes with deadly consequences for Tara. Committed to break the case, Rawlings relentlessly pursues the clues through a twisted maze of deceit and danger that takes him to England, where he and Scotland Yard detecive Charlie Lawson expose the ultimate con and solve the crime.
Ghost of a Chance
Director
A television movie about a veteran policeman who accidentally kills a musician. The ghost of the musician returns to persuade the cop to steer the musician's grandson away from drug peddlers and into a life of music.
Classified Love
Producer
Three ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ultimate results are about what one would expect.
Classified Love
Director
Three ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ultimate results are about what one would expect.
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Director
The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.
Secret Weapons
Director
Soviet high school girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Teleplay
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Director
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
The Manhunt
A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced to prison where he's forced to do chain-gang type work. He escapes, is recaptured, and escapes again as he tries to locate the man who sold him the horses.
He's Not Your Son
Director
Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revelations and decisions threatens both families.
September Gun
Director
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group of Apache orphans. Ben Sunday picks an ideal spot, right in the center of town--the local saloon and "bawdy house".
Ghost Dancing
Director
Farm widow Sarah Bowman has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving the rural outskirts virtually dry. Attempting to bring her cause to the forefront, Sarah dynamites the reservoir, half-hoping that she'll be "martyred" in the process. When she fails to arouse public support, she targets the local power plant for her next blast. Assistant DA Anne Greyfeather, who as an orphaned Indian girl was virtually raised by Sarah, decides to challenge the water-department bureaucracy on McGuire's behalf.
Listen to Your Heart
Director
This romantic melodrama features a book editor falling in love with his art director.
Drop-Out Father
Director
Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new lifestyle he outlines. He and his youngest daughter leave the suburbs for a Manhattan loft apartment while the rest of the brood -- wife and three kids -- re-evaluate the situation. For his engaging score, Peter Matz won an Emmy Award nomination.
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
Director
Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red Flag") at Nellis AFB, Nevada, about a decade after the war. Brash, self-confident Clark is an instructor, while quieter, family man Rivers is the student. At first, the two men resume their friendship. But as the student starts to show the master a thing or two, tensions develop. Can their relationship survive the stresses of one of the military's top schools?
Broken Promise
Producer
A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.
Broken Promise
Director
A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.
The Promise of Love
Director
A teenage bride becomes a war widow when her Marine Corps husband is killed in Vietnam, until into her life comes a civilian recreation director who works at Camp Pendleton.
Последний отсчет
Director
Авианосец ВМФ США «Нимитц» попадает в необычный шторм, и оказывается перемещенным во времени на сорок лет. До нападения японцев на Перл-Харбор осталось несколько часов и у летчиков с «Нимица» есть возможность предотвратить трагедию. Но имеют ли они право нарушить ход истории?
The Gift
Director
A sailor (Gary Frank) on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father (Glenn Ford) and dreamer mother (Julie Harris) in 1950s Brooklyn.
Омен II: Дэмиен
Director
Семь лет прошло с того дня, как Дэмиен чудом избежал смерти от руки своего отца. Теперь ему 13, и он живет вместе со своим дядей Ричардом Торном, тетей и двоюродным братом Марком. Пока юный Антихрист познает свою чудовищную силу и как ею пользоваться, за его безопасностью следят множество служителей Дьявола, жестоко уничтожая всех неугодных.
Остров Доктора Моро
Director
Экранизация романа Г. Уэллса, рассказывающая о событиях на острове в Тихом океане, населённом животными — жертвами опытов по вивисекции, вследствие этих опытов принявшими получеловеческий облик.
A Circle of Children
Director
A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
Великий скаут и кошачий дом по четвергам
Director
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
The Hemingway Play
Director
Writer Ernest Hemingway confronts himself at various stages of his life.
Echoes of a Summer
Director
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia.
Honky Tonk
Director
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable.
Night Games
Director
A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of murdering her husband. This is the pilot TV movie for what would become the Petrocelli TV series.
Том Сойер
Director
Приключенческий мюзикл по роману Марка Твена. Номинант на три «Оскара» и два «Золотых глобуса». Тому Сойеру и Геку Финну, двум мальчишкам-сорванцам из маленького американского городка, всегда есть чем заняться. Они рыбачат на реке Миссисипи, играют в пиратов или подшучивают над кем-то. Приезд в город красавицы Бекки Тэтчер нисколько не усмиряет их пыл, а только подливает масла в огонь. Когда Гек внезапно попадает в беду, Том Сойер оказывается единственным, кто может прийти ему на помощь в трудной ситуации. Ведь мальчишек связывает не только общее веселое детство, но и настоящая мужская дружба.
Dead of Night: The Exorcism
Writer
Four wealthy, middle-class friends gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.
Dead of Night: The Exorcism
Director
Four wealthy, middle-class friends gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.
The Man Hunter
Director
A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the suspect's wife.
Heat of Anger
Director
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
Бегство с планеты обезьян
Director
Это третья серия из пяти, рассказывающих о жизни на Земле в конце 40-го века от Рождества Христова. Две самые продвинутые обезьяны — Зира и Корнелий — настолько далеко зашли в своих научных исследованиях, что обнаружили способ перемещения во времени и решили разобраться в причинах безобразий, происходящих на родной планете.Для этого они отправляются в двадцатый век и оказываются в американском Лос-Анджелесе. Почему это они решили, что в таком виде в Америке можно разгуливать просто так, безнаказанно? Ошибочка вышла! Янки устраивают настоящее «сафари» на экзотические биологические объекты…
Wild Women
Director
Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840
Армия пяти
Poker Player (uncredited)
Разного рода занятости (от самурая до подрывника) пятеро человек объединяются чтобы провернуть ограбление поезда на котором будет перевозиться груз в $500,000 золотом, надежно охраняемый мексиканской армией. Четверо из пяти идут на это дело ради личного обогащения.
Армия пяти
Director
Разного рода занятости (от самурая до подрывника) пятеро человек объединяются чтобы провернуть ограбление поезда на котором будет перевозиться груз в $500,000 золотом, надежно охраняемый мексиканской армией. Четверо из пяти идут на это дело ради личного обогащения.
Something for a Lonely Man
Director
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
The Enemy
Director
During the Battle of the Bulge, word goes out to watch for German soldiers dressed as GIs. That's when black sergeant Chris Christiansen begins wondering if the GI who befriended him is really a friend--or the enemy.
Jack of Diamonds
Director
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
Ride the Wild Surf
Director
A group of friends go to Hawaii during the height of surfing season, to compete with other surf bums and find girlfriends along the way.
The Savage Guns
Mike Summers
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former Confederate officer, Mike Summers (Don Taylor) has taken refuge in a small town in the valley. He has married and is hoping to live in peace the rest of his life. Instead, he and his wife and the rest of the town are suffering the depredations of a brutal gunman, Danny Pose (Alex Nicol), and his gang of outlaws. Summers holds off picking up a gun because of his personal vow of non-violence. But the situation deteriorates and a new ally comes into the picture, Steve Fallon (Richard Basehart), a wandering gunslinger who may not be able to handle the bad guys alone.
The Winter's Tale
Director
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
Everything's Ducky
Director
Everything's Ducky is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Two sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duck waddles all over the ship until he escapes.
Love Slaves of the Amazons
Dr. Pete L. Masters
A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."
Ride The High Iron
Hugo Danielchik
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.
The Bold and the Brave
Ewald "Preacher" Wallister
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
Я буду плакать завтра
Wallie
Лишенная нормального детства ее честолюбивой матерью, Кэти, Лиллиан Рот становится звездой Бродвея и Голливуда, когда ей не исполнилось и двадцати лет. Накануне свадьбы Дэвид Тредман, влюбленный в нее с детства, умирает в больнице, и Лиллиан делает свой первый глоток на пути к алкоголизму…
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
Johnny Dark
Duke Benson
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.
Лагерь для военнопленных №17
Lt. James Dunbar
Когда двое сбежавших американских заключённых Второй Мировой были убиты, немецкий военнопленный, спекулянт лагерных казарм, Джей Джей Сефтон стал подозреваться в доносе.
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Lt. Jimmy Gilmartin
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.
Место назначение Гоби
Jenkins
Ричард Уидмарк возглавляет группу людей, посланных в Монголию для исследования погоды. Уидмарк должен провести своих людей через зловещую пустыню к побережью моря, где их ждет свобода. На них нападают японцы, но монгольский вождь спасает их, за что ему дарят сёдла для его шестидесяти лошадей.
Japanese War Bride
Jim Sterling
A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.
Submarine Command
Lt. Cmdr. Peter Morris
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
The Blue Veil
Dr. Robert Palfrey
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Летающие морпехи
Lt. Vern 'Cowboy' Blithe
Этот фильм посвящается морскому корпусу США, в особенности морской авиации. Фильм повествует о событиях, начавшихся летом 1942 года на гавайском острове Оахо, когда мирный плеск волн был заглушен ревом атакующих японских истребителей. Японцы захватили цепь островов до Гуадал-канала и американцам пришлось вступить с ними в схватку, несмотря на нехватку людей и вооружения. Эта история о группе американцев, вошедших в корпус пехотинцев ВМФ 247 «Дикие кошки». Представители американского флага наводнили авиабазу на спящем вулкане, что стало неотъемлемым доказательством того, что США всегда будет бороться против агрессии и агрессоров, нарушающих права свободных людей. В эскадрилью назначен майор Дэн Кирби. Ему предстоит навести порядок и дисциплину совместно с капитаном Карлом Гриффином, среди расслабившихся на палящем солнце солдат и офицеров, чтобы дать достойный отпор японским милитаристам…
Маленькая прибыль отца
Buckley Dunstan
Фильм рассказывает, что же происходит в семье адвоката Стэнли Т. Бэнкса недавно выдавшего замуж дочурку Кей. На этот раз Бэнкс, еще не до конца смирившийся с изменением статуса дочери, узнает новую шокирующую новость — он вот-вот станет дедушкой. В отличие от окружающих, Стэнли не склонен считать это событие радостным, но приходится смириться и находить нечто хорошее в нарушении отлаженного, комфортного образа жизни. Дальнейшие события предсказать нетрудно, но очень уж они трогательно поданы.
Target Unknown
Lt. Frank Webster
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
Отец невесты
Buckley Dunstan
Классическая комедия о выживании преданного отца с того момента, когда дочь объявляет о своей помолвке до того, пока последний гость покинет свадебный банкет. Адвокат Стэнли Бэнкс оказывается неподготовленным, когда его дочь Кэй объявляет о своей помолвке с Бакли Данстэном, в то время как жена Элли и сын Томми с энтузиазмом воспринимают новость. Для Стэнли обретение «сына» не повод терять дочку, которая выросла и живет своей жизнью. Может быть, все уладится, если Стэнли примет Бакли и переживет свадьбу.
Ambush
Lt. Linus Delaney
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Поле битвы
Standiferd
Сто первая десантная дивизия США — по прозвищу «Кричащие Орлы» заброшена в один из сельских районов Франции, ее цель противостоять натиску нацистов. Однако из-за плохой поддержки с воздуха и отсутствия боеприпасов одна из частей десантников возглавляемая офицером Холли, попадает в окружение. Парням необходимо прорвать блокаду и отразить основной удар немецких войск на своем направление, но перед этим солдатам и офицерам перестоит преодолеть немало трудностей и невзгод на холодном декабрьском снегу Нормандии, прежде чем они получат долгожданные боеприпасы и вступят в решающий бой, став героями и братьями по оружию…
For the Love of Mary
David Paxton
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Обнаженный город
Det. Jimmy Halloran
Джин Декстер, молодая привлекательная модель, найдена убитой в собственной квартире. Детективы Дэн Мэлдон и Джимми Хэллоран расследуют это убийство. Подозрение падает сразу на нескольких людей, которые к тому же оказываются замешанными в ограблениях квартир...
Песня тонкого человека
Buddy Hollis
В шестом и заключительном фильме о «тонком человеке» Ник и Нора оказываются на благотворительном вечере, устроенном на роскошном лайнере-казино. А позже Тома Дрэйка, лидера джазового оркестра, игравшего в тот вечер, находят убитым. Подозрение падает на Фила Брэнта, владельца лайнера, который просит Ника расследовать это дело…
Time to Kill
George
A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather play cards. But each of them has a dream for the future that they consider impossible. Harry wants a better world for his two kids, Shorty and Eddie want to start a trucking company, Joe wants to learn about engines, and another of the gang just wants to know how to write well. When Frank reveals that he's been studying to get his high school diploma and to have a career in the Navy, the others realize that the educational benefits offered by the Armed Forces Institute can help them achieve their dreams.
The Last Bomb
Gunner
Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
Крылатая победа
Danny 'Pinkie' Scariano
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Swing Shift Maisie
Young Pilot (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.