Directing

Marc Daniels

Born — Died

1912-01-27 — 1989-04-23

Place of birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Marc Daniels (January 27, 1912 – April 23, 1989), born Danny Marcus, was an American television director. He directed on TV programs such as I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Hogan's Heroes, and more. From Wikipedia.

Known for

Star Trek poster
8.0

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Star Trek

1966

Fame poster
9.0

A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.

Fame

1978

Planet Earth poster
5.8

The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent. The hero: Dylan Hunt, a handsome, vigorous 20th-century scientist awakened from suspended animation - just the "breeder" a Confederacy dominatrix has been waiting for! Can Hunt defy the Confederacy and free his downtrodden fellow males, or is he doomed to slavery on Planet Earth? A sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II.

Planet Earth

1974

Lucy Calls the President poster
7.5

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friends and Secret Service agents invade her home in preparation for the big dinner summit.

Lucy Calls the President

1977

Special People poster
10.0

Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.

Special People

1984

The Backbone of America poster
NR

An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.

The Backbone of America

1953

Series credits

Behind the camera

Fame poster
9.0

A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.

Fame

1978

Planet Earth poster
5.8

The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent. The hero: Dylan Hunt, a handsome, vigorous 20th-century scientist awakened from suspended animation - just the "breeder" a Confederacy dominatrix has been waiting for! Can Hunt defy the Confederacy and free his downtrodden fellow males, or is he doomed to slavery on Planet Earth? A sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II.

Planet Earth

1974

Lucy Calls the President poster
7.5

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friends and Secret Service agents invade her home in preparation for the big dinner summit.

Lucy Calls the President

1977

Special People poster
10.0

Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.

Special People

1984

The Backbone of America poster
NR

An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.

The Backbone of America

1953

Ricochet poster
NR

An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.

Ricochet

1961

Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts poster
7.5

A human scientist capable of living underwater discovers similar alien life inhabiting human bodies, and looks to them for a clue to his origin.

Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts

1977

The Father Knows Best Reunion poster
5.7

First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best." Jim and Margaret Anderson invite their children and grandchildren for a visit to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

The Father Knows Best Reunion

1977

He's Fired, She's Hired poster
6.5

Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is hired by the Freddie Fox agency when she uses her husband's résumé to get the job. He remains at home, raising their three children, coaxing his wife while trying to write the "great American novel."

He's Fired, She's Hired

1984

She Loves Me Not poster
NR

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student

She Loves Me Not

1949

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol poster
7.0

Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2,000 first prize to promote his bank.

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

1979

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol poster
7.0

Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2,000 first prize to promote his bank.

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

1979

The Power and the Glory poster
9.0

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.

The Power and the Glory

1963

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo poster
6.3

A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson and he takes matter into his own hands.

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

1986

Mrs. Miniver poster
7.0

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

Mrs. Miniver

1960

Have I Got a Christmas for You poster
NR

Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk humorously attempt jobs they have never done before.

Have I Got a Christmas for You

1977

Jane Eyre poster
7.0

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Jane Eyre

1961

All the Money in the World poster
4.5

A young boy gets a wish from a leprechaun, and wishes for all the money in the world. He then learns about the real-life ramifications of such a wish.

All the Money in the World

1983

The Twentieth Century poster
NR

A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.

The Twentieth Century

1949

Prudence and the Chief poster
7.0

A young widow takes her two children and mother and opens a school in the untamed West and immediately comes into conflict with the local Indians

Prudence and the Chief

1970

Squeeze a Flower poster
8.0

When greed threatens the livelihood of an Italian monastery, a monk flees with the formula for their special liquor.

Squeeze a Flower

1970

The Magic Boy's Easter poster
8.0

12-year-old Josh has a crippling disease in his leg and is cynical about the abilities of his doctor to assist him. After a visit from a Magician, he has a vivid dream in which he discovers that he doesn't need to be alone and that miracles are real. His faith in Jesus Christ is renewed and Josh wakes up with confidence that a miracle can save his leg.

The Magic Boy's Easter

1989

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Light That Failed

1961

Space Seed poster
NR

While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.

Space Seed

1967