
Directing
John Llewellyn Moxey
Born — Died
1925-02-26 — 2019-04-29
Place of birth
Argentina
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
John Llewellyn Moxey (sometimes credited as John L. Moxey or John Moxey) (February 26, 1925 – April 29, 2019) was an Argentinian-born British film and television director. He was best-known for the horror film The City of the Dead (also known as Horror Hotel, 1960) and episodes of The Saint, Magnum, P.I. and Murder, She Wrote, as well as many TV movies, including The House That Would Not Die (1970), A Taste of Evil (1971), Home for the Holidays (1972), The Night Stalker (1972), Genesis II (1973), Where Have All the People Gone? (1974), Nightmare in Badham County (1976), Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979), No Place to Hide (1981) and I, Desire (1982). Description above from the Wikipedia article J…
Known for
6.5In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.
The City of the Dead
1960
6.9Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
The Night Stalker
1972
5.9Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
Nightmare in Badham County
1976
5.5A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Circus of Fear
1966
5.9A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
5.9A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Genesis II
1973
Behind the camera
6.5In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.
The City of the Dead
1960
6.9Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
The Night Stalker
1972
5.9Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
Nightmare in Badham County
1976
5.5A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Circus of Fear
1966
5.9A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
5.9A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Genesis II
1973
5.5An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Home for the Holidays
1974
5.0Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather's staunchest defender.
Lady Mobster
1988
5.0The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Intimate Strangers
1977
5.9A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.
Where Have All the People Gone
1974
5.7A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Escape
1971
7.5The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
The Death of Me Yet
1971
7.0A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
A Hatful of Rain
1968
5.7A coroner's assistant, who is also a law student, gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital), prostitutes, a defrocked priest, and vampires.
I, Desire
1982
5.8A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
The House That Would Not Die
1970
6.9A young art student frantically tries to prove that she is being stalked by a mysterious man who has threatened her life, and finds her sanity questioned by her stepmother, the family attorney, and even a psychiatrist.
No Place to Hide
1981
6.1On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
A Taste of Evil
1971
7.0A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
Conspiracy of Terror
1975
7.5Wealthy Margo Wendice's husband (Laurence Harvey) plots her murder to inherit her fortune after discovering her affair, leading to a tense, failed, and improvised criminal scheme. A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
Dial M for Murder
1967
6.6A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Foxhole in Cairo
1960
6.6A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Foxhole in Cairo
1960
6.2A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
Hardcase
1972
4.6A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
Through Naked Eyes
1983
4.3This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
San Francisco International
1970
4.5Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
6.4Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
The Children of An Lac
1980
9.0The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
The Courage and the Passion
1978
NRThe Angels head for wine country to discover what happened to a missing man before he's declared legally dead and the estate goes up for grabs.
Charlie's Angels
1976
4.0Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
The Cradle Will Fall
1983
8.0A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Sanctuary of Fear
1979
6.8A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
The President's Mistress
1978
5.4A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Panic in Echo Park
1977
7.3In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
The Last Child
1971
6.0A pilot for an unproduced British science fiction space adventure series.
The Solarnauts
1967
6.4Kinkaid is a rugged, hard-driving bounty hunter, determined to find outlaw Billy Riddle. He tracks Billy, takes him captive, and starts the long trek to justice. However, this journey may lead him to dire consequences... a gang of cut-throats headed by Angus Keough is pursuing them, after the bounty for themselves.
The Bounty Man
1972
7.7A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.
Face of a Stranger
1964
5.5In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
7.0Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him.
Ricochet
1963
7.5In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
Ebony, Ivory and Jade
1979
7.5A family man must make an adjustment after his wife of fifteen years one day blurts out that she wants a divorce and leaves him to construct a new life.
The Solitary Man
1979
