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Don Weis (May 13, 1922 - July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director.
Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as Bannerline (1951), Just This Once (1952), You for Me (1952) and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953).
Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others.
Weis won two Directors Guild of America Awards for television direction in 1956 and again in 1958.
Weis died in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 78 years of age.
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19 December 1978
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
01 March 1951
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
23 June 1978
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
01 December 1959
The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music.
08 March 1949
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley.
15 May 1953
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
01 December 1956
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice.
01 October 1954
In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle.
06 April 1966
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
27 February 1981
The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster robots, including clones of Herman and Grandpa.
05 June 1953
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
12 October 1951
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
19 July 1952
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
20 November 1951
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
11 November 1968
A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, schemes to steal it.
27 February 1952
An heir of a vast fortune is deeply in debt because he spends faster than his very generous trust fund allows.
14 July 1968
Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town.
12 November 1948
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted.
23 December 1949
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan.
14 March 1976
The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
20 July 1967
Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.
14 August 1953
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie.
25 August 1950
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility.
28 March 1976
The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
11 November 1964
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
25 May 1951
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
17 November 1980
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes]
21 January 1967
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
01 January 1955
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
20 March 1953
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park.
24 February 1963
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good.
05 August 1964
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
13 December 1965
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
16 December 1953
This USAF flight training recruitment film follows a trio of aviation cadets as they struggle through the initial "Pre-flight" phase of their training.
11 May 1953
A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.
