Bert I. Gordon

Directing

Bert I. Gordon

Born — Died

1922-09-24 — 2023-03-08

Place of birth

Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Bert Ira Gordon (born September 24, 1922 in Kenosha, WI) was an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as The Amazing Colossal Man and Village of the Giants. Most of Gordon's work was in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he used rear-projection to create the special effects. His nickname "Mister B.I.G." was a reference both to his initials and to his preferred technique for making super-sized creatures. Gordon held a degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He began his career directing television commercials before moving to film in 1954 to produce Serpent Island. In 1957, he began his prolific association with American Internatio…

Known for

Empire of the Ants poster
5.0

A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.

Empire of the Ants

1977

The Food of the Gods poster
5.0

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

The Food of the Gods

1976

Earth vs. the Spider poster
4.8

Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.

Earth vs. the Spider

1958

Attack of the Puppet People poster
5.1

A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

Attack of the Puppet People

1958

The Magic Sword poster
4.3

The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.

The Magic Sword

1962

Beginning of the End poster
4.0

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

Beginning of the End

1957

Film credits

Behind the camera

Empire of the Ants poster
5.0

A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.

Empire of the Ants

1977

Empire of the Ants poster
5.0

A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.

Empire of the Ants

1977

The Food of the Gods poster
5.0

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

The Food of the Gods

1976

The Food of the Gods poster
5.0

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

The Food of the Gods

1976

The Food of the Gods poster
5.0

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

The Food of the Gods

1976

Earth vs. the Spider poster
4.8

Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.

Earth vs. the Spider

1958

Earth vs. the Spider poster
4.8

Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.

Earth vs. the Spider

1958

Attack of the Puppet People poster
5.1

A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

Attack of the Puppet People

1958

Attack of the Puppet People poster
5.1

A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

Attack of the Puppet People

1958

The Magic Sword poster
4.3

The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.

The Magic Sword

1962

The Magic Sword poster
4.3

The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.

The Magic Sword

1962

Beginning of the End poster
4.0

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

Beginning of the End

1957

Beginning of the End poster
4.0

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

Beginning of the End

1957

The Mad Bomber poster
5.1

Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.

The Mad Bomber

1973

The Mad Bomber poster
5.1

Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.

The Mad Bomber

1973

The Mad Bomber poster
5.1

Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.

The Mad Bomber

1973

Tormented poster
5.1

A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.

Tormented

1960

Tormented poster
5.1

A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.

Tormented

1960

Village of the Giants poster
3.7

"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.

Village of the Giants

1965

Village of the Giants poster
3.7

"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.

Village of the Giants

1965

Picture Mommy Dead poster
5.7

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

Picture Mommy Dead

1966

Picture Mommy Dead poster
5.7

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

Picture Mommy Dead

1966

The Amazing Colossal Man poster
4.7

Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.

The Amazing Colossal Man

1957

The Amazing Colossal Man poster
4.7

Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.

The Amazing Colossal Man

1957

The Amazing Colossal Man poster
4.7

Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.

The Amazing Colossal Man

1957

Famous Ghost Stories poster
6.0

A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist introducing the ghost story to follow. It's really an edited version of Gordon's 1960 film Tormented, starring Richard Carlson as a jazz musician haunted by the spirit of an old flame he let fall from a lighthouse.

Famous Ghost Stories

1961

Famous Ghost Stories poster
6.0

A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist introducing the ghost story to follow. It's really an edited version of Gordon's 1960 film Tormented, starring Richard Carlson as a jazz musician haunted by the spirit of an old flame he let fall from a lighthouse.

Famous Ghost Stories

1961

Famous Ghost Stories poster
6.0

A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist introducing the ghost story to follow. It's really an edited version of Gordon's 1960 film Tormented, starring Richard Carlson as a jazz musician haunted by the spirit of an old flame he let fall from a lighthouse.

Famous Ghost Stories

1961

Burned at the Stake poster
5.7

In 1692 Salem, young Ann Putnam and Reverend Parris have accused more than 20 people of witchcraft and sent them to their deaths. After they accuse a five-year-old girl, her father's will to save her magically teleports him into modern-day Salem, where he searches for the reincarnation of Ann Putnam in order to save his daughter.

Burned at the Stake

1981

Burned at the Stake poster
5.7

In 1692 Salem, young Ann Putnam and Reverend Parris have accused more than 20 people of witchcraft and sent them to their deaths. After they accuse a five-year-old girl, her father's will to save her magically teleports him into modern-day Salem, where he searches for the reincarnation of Ann Putnam in order to save his daughter.

Burned at the Stake

1981

Burned at the Stake poster
5.7

In 1692 Salem, young Ann Putnam and Reverend Parris have accused more than 20 people of witchcraft and sent them to their deaths. After they accuse a five-year-old girl, her father's will to save her magically teleports him into modern-day Salem, where he searches for the reincarnation of Ann Putnam in order to save his daughter.

Burned at the Stake

1981

Satan's Princess poster
3.5

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman

Satan's Princess

1989

Satan's Princess poster
3.5

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman

Satan's Princess

1989

The Boy and the Pirates poster
5.7

Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.

The Boy and the Pirates

1960

The Boy and the Pirates poster
5.7

Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.

The Boy and the Pirates

1960

Necromancy poster
4.6

After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy company. Frank's new boss, the mysterious Mr. Cato, explains that Frank's position will involve magic. Cato, who seemingly holds enormous influence over the town, pursues the power of necromancy and believes that Lori holds the key that will help him resurrect his own dead son.

Necromancy

1972

Necromancy poster
4.6

After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy company. Frank's new boss, the mysterious Mr. Cato, explains that Frank's position will involve magic. Cato, who seemingly holds enormous influence over the town, pursues the power of necromancy and believes that Lori holds the key that will help him resurrect his own dead son.

Necromancy

1972

Necromancy poster
4.6

After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy company. Frank's new boss, the mysterious Mr. Cato, explains that Frank's position will involve magic. Cato, who seemingly holds enormous influence over the town, pursues the power of necromancy and believes that Lori holds the key that will help him resurrect his own dead son.

Necromancy

1972

The Cyclops poster
4.5

A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.

The Cyclops

1957

The Cyclops poster
4.5

A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.

The Cyclops

1957