Bruce Bilson

Directing

Bruce Bilson

Born — Died

1928-05-19 — 2026-01-16

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Bruce Bilson (May 19, 1928 – January 16, 2026) was an American film and television director. He is most notable for his work as a regular director on the spy spoof Get Smart. He won the 1967–1968 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the third season Get Smart episode "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye". Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Bilson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade poster
7.0

The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade

1992

B.J. and the Bear poster
9.0

In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

B.J. and the Bear

1978

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall poster
6.3

Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

1980

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't poster
6.2

Upset by rumors that Halloween may end, Dracula calls his mild-mannered monsters together and delivers an ultimatum - either regain their frightening image, or leave his Transylvania castle forever.

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't

1979

The North Avenue Irregulars poster
6.6

When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.

The North Avenue Irregulars

1979

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe poster
8.0

Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

1976

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West poster
4.1

This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers across the prairie. Among the passengers are two wealthy Bostonians, an aspiring showgirl, a teacher, and bachelor. The story is adapted from Dusty's Trail, a television sitcom.

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

1976

The Girl who Came Gift Wrapped poster
7.0

So how can a swinging bachelor learn a lesson about love? As magazine publisher Michael Green celebrates his big 4-0, he finds a bikini-clad Sandy Benson wrapped in a big bow as a birthday present supposedly courtesy of his drinking buddies. After trading barbs with the former beauty pageant winner, they find they have an attraction of sorts and she sticks around. Romance abounds as this country girl goes looking for romance in the big city in a typical television romantic comedy fashion.

The Girl who Came Gift Wrapped

1974

Gidget's Summer Reunion poster
6.0

Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband’s old surfing friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget’s niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend.

Gidget's Summer Reunion

1985

Pleasure Cove poster
7.0

The story of a posh seaside vacation resort, and the lives and adventures of its guests and staff.

Pleasure Cove

1979

Dead Man on the Run poster
7.5

A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.

Dead Man on the Run

1975

24 Behind the Scenes: The Editing Process poster
6.0

Join the cast and crew for a probing look behind the scenes of the popular US drama series. Keifer Sutherland introduces the programme, which includes in-depth interviews with creators, producers, actors, writers and editors as well as an in-depth exploration of the editing process.

24 Behind the Scenes: The Editing Process

2006

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders poster
5.7

To salvage his job and the circulation of his magazine, an editor decides to publish an expose revealing the inside story of the famed cheerleading squad and plants his reporter/girlfriend among the girls.

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

1979

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders poster
5.7

To salvage his job and the circulation of his magazine, an editor decides to publish an expose revealing the inside story of the famed cheerleading squad and plants his reporter/girlfriend among the girls.

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

1979

Chattanooga Choo Choo poster
6.7

The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he is to inherit $1 million in this comedy.

Chattanooga Choo Choo

1984

No artwork available
NR

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A student film about college life on the UCLA campus in the 1950s. From the Motion Picture Division in the Department of Theatre Arts at UCLA.

University U.S.A.

1950

No artwork available
NR

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A student film about college life on the UCLA campus in the 1950s. From the Motion Picture Division in the Department of Theatre Arts at UCLA.

University U.S.A.

1950