John Newland

Directing

John Newland

Born 1917-11-23 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

John Newland was an American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter. In 1959, Newland became the host and director of the paranormal television series One Step Beyond. The series ended its run in 1961 and Newland later hosted its short-lived counterpart The Next Step Beyond in 1978. Following the demise of his One Step Beyond, Newland directed one of the early 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes called "The Double Affair". His episode was given additional footage and released to cinemas as a motion picture titled The Spy with My Face. In 1966 he produced and directed all episodes but one of the serious spy series The Man Who Never Was for which he also served as a writer. Some episodes were strung together and released outside the United States as a film called Danger Has Two Faces. He later directed episodes of The Sixth Sense, and Police Woman. In addition to acting, directing, and screenwriting, he produced several television movies.

Acting credits

Gentleman's Agreement poster
7.0

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

Gentleman's Agreement

1947

T-Men poster
6.7

Two T-men, U.S. Treasury agents, go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

T-Men

1947

Nora Prentiss poster
6.2

Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become heavily involved, and Talbot finds himself faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.

Nora Prentiss

1947

The Adventures of Dusty Bates poster
5.3

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

The Adventures of Dusty Bates

1947

Purgatory poster
4.2

Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

Purgatory

1988

Sons of Adventure poster
9.0

This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.

Sons of Adventure

1948

Homicide for Three poster
5.7

While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.

Homicide for Three

1948

The Challenge poster
7.5

Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.

The Challenge

1948

13 Lead Soldiers poster
6.2

Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two soldiers were part of a set of thirteen which formed the key to a hidden vault of treasure. Following some clever sleuthing and set-up on Drummond's part, the guilty man is trapped in the vault,which is hidden behind the fireplace.

13 Lead Soldiers

1948

Behind the camera

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark poster
6.1

A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

1973

Timestalkers poster
5.4

History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West and he is soon joined by beautiful time-traveler Georgia in a time-skipping adventure to stop her colleague from the future from erasing her from existence.

Timestalkers

1987

My Lover, My Son poster
4.2

A woman deals with an unhappy marriage, the death of her lover, and her son's involvement in a crime.

My Lover, My Son

1970

Arch of Triumph poster
5.2

A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.

Arch of Triumph

1984

The Spy with My Face poster
5.6

Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.

The Spy with My Face

1965

The Legend of Hillbilly John poster
6.3

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

The Legend of Hillbilly John

1974

Crawlspace poster
5.8

A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.

Crawlspace

1972

Too Good to Be True poster
5.0

A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.

Too Good to Be True

1988

Angel City poster
6.0

Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

Angel City

1980

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death poster
7.0

Joan Crawford plays a widow named Joan Fairchild who stumbles upon a group of ESP enthusiasts that decide to use their abilities to scare her to death. Extended version of an episode of the series "The Sixth Sense". This was Joan Crawford's last acting role. Aired Sep 30, 1972.

Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death

1972

That Night! poster
8.5

When a driven business man suffers a series of heart attacks, he and his family must reassess their values.

That Night!

1957

A Sensitive, Passionate Man poster
5.5

The marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism.

A Sensitive, Passionate Man

1977

The Deadly Hunt poster
9.0

A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.

The Deadly Hunt

1971

The Deadly Hunt poster
9.0

A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.

The Deadly Hunt

1971

Overboard poster
3.0

Attractive, affluent married couple Mitch and Lindy Garrison sail their yacht to Tahiti to recharge their relationship and add spice to their upper-middle-class lives, but things don't go as planned when they wind up falling overboard.

Overboard

1978

Danger Has Two Faces poster
7.0

A U.S. spy and East German police duke it out in a battle of wits, fisticuffs and killing. The spy assumes the ID of a wealthy look-alike that the commies kill. But will his wife spill the beans in this Cold War espionage thriller?

Danger Has Two Faces

1968

The Violators poster
7.5

A New York City probation officer, noted for his sympathy with delinquents, put to a severe test when his daughter falls for a boy whom circumstances force into breaking the law.

The Violators

1957

The Suicide's Wife poster
7.0

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.

The Suicide's Wife

1979