John Llewellyn Moxey

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

Behind the camera

The City of the Dead poster
6.5

In 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

The Night Stalker poster
6.9

Wisecracking 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

Nightmare in Badham County poster
5.9

Two 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

Circus of Fear poster
5.5

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Circus of Fear

1966

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence poster
5.9

A 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

Genesis II poster
5.9

A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.

Genesis II

1973

Home for the Holidays poster
5.5

An 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

Lady Mobster poster
5.0

Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather's staunchest defender.

Lady Mobster

1988

Intimate Strangers poster
5.0

The 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

Where Have All the People Gone poster
5.9

A 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

Escape poster
5.7

A 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

The Death of Me Yet poster
7.5

The 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

A Hatful of Rain poster
7.0

A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

A Hatful of Rain

1968

I, Desire poster
5.7

A 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

The House That Would Not Die poster
5.8

A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.

The House That Would Not Die

1970

No Place to Hide poster
6.9

A 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

A Taste of Evil poster
6.1

On 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

Conspiracy of Terror poster
7.0

A 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

Dial M for Murder poster
7.5

Wealthy 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

Foxhole in Cairo poster
6.6

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Foxhole in Cairo

1960

Foxhole in Cairo poster
6.6

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Foxhole in Cairo

1960

Hardcase poster
6.2

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.

Hardcase

1972

Through Naked Eyes poster
4.6

A 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

San Francisco International poster
4.3

This 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

The Violation of Sarah McDavid poster
4.5

Sarah 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

The Children of An Lac poster
6.4

Based 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

The Courage and the Passion poster
9.0

The 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

Charlie's Angels poster
NR

The 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

The Cradle Will Fall poster
4.0

Kathy 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

Sanctuary of Fear poster
8.0

A 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

The President's Mistress poster
6.8

A 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

Panic in Echo Park poster
5.4

A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.

Panic in Echo Park

1977

The Last Child poster
7.3

In 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

The Solarnauts poster
6.0

A pilot for an unproduced British science fiction space adventure series.

The Solarnauts

1967

The Bounty Man poster
6.4

Kinkaid 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

Face of a Stranger poster
7.7

A 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

Smash-Up on Interstate 5 poster
5.5

In 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

Ricochet poster
7.0

Solicitor 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

Ebony, Ivory and Jade poster
7.5

In 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

The Solitary Man poster
7.5

A 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