Known for Directing
Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien: Omen II (1978). Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
December 13, 1920
Died
December 29, 1998 (age 78)
Birthplace
Freeport, Pennsylvania, USA
Filmography
81 films, 59 shows


Mrs. Weekley's Lover
2025 · 54m
country: United Kingdom
Mrs. Weekley starts an affair with a young writer named D.H. Lawrence.
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
The ageing William Shakespeare has retreated to Warwickshire in search of an elusive inner peace. Disillusioned by human cruelty he is further dismayed to find the greed and injustices that drove him from London to Stratford are as prevalent in his rural retreat as they were in the capital. (BBC Genome)


The Diamond Trap
1988 · 1h 33m
country: United States
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
1987 · 1h 31m
country: United States
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
1986 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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
1985 · 1h 44m
country: United States
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
1985 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
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
1985 · 2h 23m
country: Unknown
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn


He's Not Your Son
1984 · 1h 30m
country: United States
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
1983 · 1h 32m
country: United States
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
Ghost Dancing
1983 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
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
1983 · 1h 40m
country: United States
This romantic melodrama features a book editor falling in love with his art director.


Drop-Out Father
1982 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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
1981 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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
1980 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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.


In Hiding
1980 · 1h
country: Unknown
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.


The Final Countdown
1980 · 1h 43m
country: United States
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.


The Gift
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.


Damien - Omen II
1978 · 1h 47m
country: United States
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.


When the Actors Come
1978
country: Unknown
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary. The Count is delighted to have an excuse for re-opening the old family theatre, closed since his childhood. But other members of his household wonder whether these unexpected guests should be made quite so welcome.


For Tea on Sunday
1978
country: Unknown
An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party.


The Island of Dr. Moreau
1977 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.


A Circle of Children
1977 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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.


The Achurch Letters
1977 · 1h
country: Unknown
1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.


The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976 · 1h 42m
country: United States
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.


Dad
1976
country: Unknown
'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face truths they would rather forget.


The Hemingway Play
1976 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.


Echoes of a Summer
1976 · 1h 39m
country: Canada
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
1974 · 1h 18m
country: United States
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
1974 · 1h 14m
country: United States
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.


Tom Sawyer
1973 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.


The Man Hunter
1972 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
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
1972 · 1h 14m
country: United States
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.


Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · 1h 38m
country: United States
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.


Wild Women
1970 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840


The 5-Man Army
1969 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.


Something for a Lonely Man
1968 · 2h
country: United States
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
1967 · 1h
country: Unknown
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
1967 · 1h 48m
country: Germany
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.


And Did Those Feet ?
1965 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.


Ride the Wild Surf
1964 · 1h 41m
country: United States
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.


Everything's Ducky
1961 · 1h 20m
country: United States
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.