Known for Directing
Filmography
28 films


Copycat
1995 · 2h 4m · US
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.


Necessary Roughness
1991 · 1h 48m · US
When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?


She's Out of Control
1989 · 1h 37m · US
A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.


Spellbinder
1988 · 1h 39m · US
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.


Short Circuit
1986 · 1h 38m · US
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.


American Flyers
1985 · 1h 53m · US
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.


The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 · 1h 43m · US
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.


Mr. Mom
1983 · 1h 31m · US
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...


The Entity
1982 · 2h 5m · US
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.


S.O.B.
1981 · 2h 1m · US
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.


The Killing of Randy Webster
1981 · 1h 40m · US
When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.


10
1979 · 2h 2m · US
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.


Norma Rae
1979 · 1h 50m · US
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.


Damien - Omen II
1978 · 1h 47m · US
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.


Casey's Shadow
1978 · 1h 57m · US
Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey's Shadow, may just be a champion.


Special Delivery
1976 · 1h 39m · US
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.


Walking Tall Part II
1975 · 1h 49m · US
The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wife's death at the hand of the mob, Sheriff Pusser blows up their moonshine operation. With Buford breathing down their necks, the syndicate hires two hitmen; one a maniacal race car driver, the other a deadly gunslinger. Any other man would've hightailed it out of there, but then Pusser is no ordinary man.


Miles To Go Before I Sleep
1975 · 1h 18m · US
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.


Thomasine & Bushrod
1974 · 1h 35m · US
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.


Pray for the Wildcats
1974 · 1h 40m · US
Three ad agency executives are pressured into taking a motorbike trip to Baja by a big-ticket client. Along the way, the client is spurned by a young woman whose boyfriend sticks up for her. The client later disables their van, leading to their deaths in the desert. When the executives piece together what has happened, it leads to a showdown.


The Laughing Policeman
1973 · 1h 52m · US
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.


Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973 · 1h 43m · US
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.


Hot Summer Week
1972 · 1h 19m · US
Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in the area.


Top of the Heap
1972 · 1h 30m · US
A Black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.


The Grasshopper
1970 · 1h 38m · US
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.


Flareup
1969 · 1h 40m · US
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.


Number One
1969 · 1h 40m · US
A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.