Larry Shaw

Directing

Larry Shaw

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Larry Shaw is an American film and television director. He is currently a regular director on the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives, where he also serves as a co-executive producer for the show. In the past, Shaw has directed numerous television programs which include 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Lizzie McGuire. In addition to producing for Desperate Housewives, Shaw has also been a producer and director on the series Stingray and was an associate producer on the Hunter TV series which ran from 1984-1991.

Known for

Cadet Kelly poster
6.2

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

Cadet Kelly

2002

Don't Look Down poster
4.4

After a terrible accident, Carla develops a debilitating fear of heights. She joins a counseling group headed by Dr Paul Sadowski, an unconventional therapist who presses people to confront their fears. However, his methods come into question when his patients begin to suffer mysterious accidents.

Don't Look Down

1998

Medusa's Child poster
5.8

Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.

Medusa's Child

1997

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story poster
9.0

Based on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Ice Skating team. When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between the two was motivation for someone.

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

1994

To My Daughter poster
8.0

A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings.

To My Daughter

1990

Mother Knows Best poster
6.1

A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.

Mother Knows Best

1997

Behind the camera

Cadet Kelly poster
6.2

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

Cadet Kelly

2002

Don't Look Down poster
4.4

After a terrible accident, Carla develops a debilitating fear of heights. She joins a counseling group headed by Dr Paul Sadowski, an unconventional therapist who presses people to confront their fears. However, his methods come into question when his patients begin to suffer mysterious accidents.

Don't Look Down

1998

Medusa's Child poster
5.8

Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.

Medusa's Child

1997

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story poster
9.0

Based on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Ice Skating team. When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between the two was motivation for someone.

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

1994

To My Daughter poster
8.0

A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings.

To My Daughter

1990

Mother Knows Best poster
6.1

A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.

Mother Knows Best

1997

Mortal Fear poster
5.5

Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses the same information to play God, millions are at risk. Dr. Jennifer Kessler is the one person who stands in the way of ultimate medical disaster. After witnessing one, then dozens of patients at her hospital mysteriously and unexpectedly die, her search for the truth leads her through a bizarre world of intrigue, passion and controversial secret medical research. As Dr. Kessler races against the clock to find a way to stop catastrophe, she finds herself up against an imposing and terrifying conspiracy implicating the entire U.S. insurance and medical system in the process.

Mortal Fear

1994

No One Could Protect Her poster
5.5

Fact-based drama about a smalltown rape victim who helps the police trap her attacker who has invaded her home again and again.

No One Could Protect Her

1996

The Ultimate Lie poster
5.8

A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a client and discovers to her horror that he is none other than her father.

The Ultimate Lie

1996

Fear Stalk poster
7.0

A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse. The thief begins to make threatening phone calls and withdraws money from her accounts. The stalker becomes more and more dangerous until he finally tries to kill the producer.

Fear Stalk

1989

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal poster
4.2

A dramatized account of a female US Naval officer's ordeal of being sexually harassed at a Naval convention and her legal retaliation.

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

1995

Celeste in the City poster
5.9

Small town girl Celeste Blodgett moves from Bangor, Maine to Manhattan when she gets a job with the New York Examiner, but hears there it's only fact checking, with little prospects for real journalism. Her welcoming young flat neighbor Kyle Halley in an interior designer, who helps her to give her apartment a make-over. At a party she learns her cousin is gay and goes by the new name Dana Harrison; he promises to teach her the city way with a fashionable image transformation, which succeeds with the help of various gay friends. Now she's ready for social life, hoping to impress her boss, reputedly womanizing magazine section editor Mitch Tanzer. He accepts to read her work, but says he can't use it because it's unethical given their personal relationship- then she finds reality is different.

Celeste in the City

2004

The Uninvited poster
5.5

A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experiencing paranormal phenomena. She finds it playful at first, but as it grows increasingly malevolent, she is unable to convince her husband of it, and she must contend with it to protect her family from its influence.

The Uninvited

1996

Living a Lie poster
10.0

Way out west, it's a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry. Her character, manicurist Joanne Johnson, is the kind of woman who stands by her man. She and her husband, Matt (Coyote), have held their marriage and family together, even though times on their small Southwestern ranch have been tough. One night, Matt and a couple of his buddies get drunk in a local saloon before heading home. They're also stewing in anti-Hispanic racial resentment. Matt is having a hard time making a living and has just had to sell off the last chunk of his inherited ranch property to a family named Martinez. The tragic result of their mean-spirited horseplay is a small Mexican church. burned to the ground, two young people critically injured and three men tangled up in fear, loathing, and lies. Joanne senses the awful truth way ahead of her spiteful, narrow-minded pals down at the local beauty parlor, and she sets out to do the right thing.

Living a Lie

1991

Donor poster
5.3

Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs away but has an accident and dies. Kristine tries to find out more about this man, but discovers that all the personnel (including the hospital's director), are hiding something.

Donor

1990

Protect and Surf poster
5.0

A group of young police officers make up for the harsh realities of working on mean streets by sharing a dream house at the beach in California.

Protect and Surf

1989

Police Story: Cop Killer poster
6.5

The best friend and partner of a dedicated cop is killed by a pair of holdup men during a routine traffic check.

Police Story: Cop Killer

1988