Production

Sandy Howard

Born — Died

1927-08-01 — 2008-05-16

Place of birth

Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

22 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sandy Howard  (August 1, 1927 – May 16, 2008) was an American film producer and television producer. A native of the Bronx, New York City, Howard wrote short stories for publication in magazines like Liberty, and worked as a publicist for Broadway shows until he became a director for the Howdy Doody show at the age of nineteen; he later produced the Captain Kangaroo show. He cooperated with Ray Heatherton creating the TV show The Merry Mailman in the early 1950s. He was producer of The Barry Gray Radio Show (1951 – 1958).[2] Among his film productions are A Man Called Horse (1970) and Man in the Wilderness (1971). He contributed as writer on Vice Sq…

Known for

Man in the Wilderness poster
6.3

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.

Man in the Wilderness

1971

The Boys Next Door poster
6.2

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

The Boys Next Door

1986

A Man Called Horse poster
6.5

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.

A Man Called Horse

1970

Vice Squad poster
6.2

An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

Vice Squad

1982

Tarzan and the Trappers poster
4.2

Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot when Schroeder's brother, with the help of money-hungry trader Lapin, hunts a different kind of quarry, human game. Now Tarzan must not only fight to save the animals of the jungle, but he must also save himself. Three episodes of a failed TV series edited for theater release.

Tarzan and the Trappers

1960

Circle of Iron poster
5.6

In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.

Circle of Iron

1978

Behind the camera

Man in the Wilderness poster
6.3

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.

Man in the Wilderness

1971

The Boys Next Door poster
6.2

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

The Boys Next Door

1986

A Man Called Horse poster
6.5

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.

A Man Called Horse

1970

Vice Squad poster
6.2

An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

Vice Squad

1982

Tarzan and the Trappers poster
4.2

Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot when Schroeder's brother, with the help of money-hungry trader Lapin, hunts a different kind of quarry, human game. Now Tarzan must not only fight to save the animals of the jungle, but he must also save himself. Three episodes of a failed TV series edited for theater release.

Tarzan and the Trappers

1960

Circle of Iron poster
5.6

In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.

Circle of Iron

1978

Avenging Angel poster
5.2

Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds herself pitted against an underworld of mob figures who might be more than she's bargained for...

Avenging Angel

1985

Jaguar Lives! poster
4.2

The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.

Jaguar Lives!

1979

Deadly Force poster
5.1

Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.

Deadly Force

1983

Hollywood Vice Squad poster
3.8

A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. She discovers that the girl has become involved in the pornography industry, and goes to the police to get help in finding her.

Hollywood Vice Squad

1986

Gammera the Invincible poster
5.1

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.

Gammera the Invincible

1966

The Neptune Factor poster
5.1

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

The Neptune Factor

1973

Dark Tower poster
3.9

An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.

Dark Tower

1987

KGB: The Secret War poster
6.4

A KGB spy in Los Angeles is recruited by a U.S. agent after being double-crossed by the KGB.

KGB: The Secret War

1985

Diary of a Bachelor poster
4.8

A wealthy young woman about to marry a noted playboy comes across his diary, and as she reads it, she begins to discover that her intended husband isn't quite what he seems to be.

Diary of a Bachelor

1964

Jack of Diamonds poster
4.7

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.

Jack of Diamonds

1967

What Waits Below poster
4.1

The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.

What Waits Below

1984

One Step to Hell poster
7.5

A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."

One Step to Hell

1968

One Step to Hell poster
7.5

A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."

One Step to Hell

1968

Kidnapped poster
4.2

A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the pornographers.

Kidnapped

1988

Savage Harvest poster
6.2

A family in Africa is besieged by a group of lions, driven to desperation by the drought.

Savage Harvest

1981

City of Fear poster
8.3

A Canadian reporter gets mixed up in Cold-War politics, romance and espionage in Eastern Europe.

City of Fear

1965