Richard Compton

Directing

Richard Compton

Born 1938-03-02 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Richard Compton was a director, primarily for television, after starting his career as an actor in the 1950s in government propaganda movies, eventually moving to television in the 60s, where he was best known for portraying a Romulan in several episodes of Star Trek. He directed movies in the 60s with very limited success before moving to directing for television in the 70s and 80s.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The California Kid poster
6.3

A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.

The California Kid

1974

Babylon 5: The Gathering poster
6.4

The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of space stations built by humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer, Jeffrey Sinclair, who has the responsibility of finding the culprit. Otherwise, the space station will fail in its role of bringing many alien races together.

Babylon 5: The Gathering

1993

Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge poster
8.0

Duell McCall is an outlaw on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Captured by the law and coerced into helping rescue the daughter of the evil local land baron, he finds himself drawn into an ever-deepening web of lies that threatens to cost him his life.

Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge

1988

Return to Macon County poster
6.6

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.

Return to Macon County

1975

Return to Macon County poster
6.6

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.

Return to Macon County

1975

Macon County Line poster
5.9

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.

Macon County Line

1974

Macon County Line poster
5.9

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.

Macon County Line

1974

Deadman's Curve poster
5.4

Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their wave to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on their way to becoming rock and roll legends, they have to cope with a devastating car crash that leaves Jan brain-damaged and their dreams shattered.

Deadman's Curve

1978

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys poster
5.2

Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

1971

Ransom poster
6.5

A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.

Ransom

1977

Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier poster
7.6

Welcome to the bay... Mitch and his friends enter the sink or swim world that is BAYWATCH.

Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier

1989

Ravagers poster
4.5

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.

Ravagers

1979

The Keys poster
8.0

Brothers, shipped off by their divorced New York mom to live with their businessman dad in the Florida Keys, find him caught up in a land war against a drug lord and developer who wants to build a massive casino complex.

The Keys

1992

Super Force poster
3.8

The time: the near future. Astronaut Zach Stone (Ken Olandt) returns from a heroic Mars mission to find his brother murdered -- and his country losing its battle against rampant violence, corruption and anarchy. Determined to avenge his brother's death, and to fight back against the mounting tide of barbarism, Stone transforms himself into an ultra-high-tech, one-man vigilante army: the Super Force. Equipped with invincible body armor and as awesome arsenal of futuristic weaponry, he wages an apocalyptic, inner-city war against the sinister conspiracy lead by the inscrutably evil Tao Satori (G. Gordon Liddy). A high impact, special effects-filled sci-fi adventure!

Super Force

1990

Kojak : Error Fatal poster
8.0

Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposed, Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame.

Kojak : Error Fatal

1989

Home for the Holidays poster
6.1

After their parents are killed in a terrible accident, the four McMurrin children live with their loving Aunt Martha. Martha wants to adopt the children but the town's bitter old banker stands in their way. However, the children's courage and ingenuity triumph and they become a family just before the holidays.

Home for the Holidays

2005

Angels Die Hard poster
6.0

Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.

Angels Die Hard

1970

Angels Die Hard poster
6.0

Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.

Angels Die Hard

1970

Kojak: It's Always Something poster
6.7

After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.

Kojak: It's Always Something

1990

Like Mother Like Daughter poster
2.8

A sleazebag seduces both a nightclub owner and her teenage daughter.

Like Mother Like Daughter

1970

The Gun Runner poster
3.0

Government agents hire a mercenary to infiltrate a crime ring that's selling guns to a right-wing militia in Texas.

The Gun Runner

1969

The Gun Runner poster
3.0

Government agents hire a mercenary to infiltrate a crime ring that's selling guns to a right-wing militia in Texas.

The Gun Runner

1969

No artwork available
NR

A deputy catches Duell and is bringing him in and some men who want the reward try to get Duell from the deputy. There's a gunfight and Duell's the only one left alive. He then assumes the deputy's identity and goes to the nearest town and claims the deputy to be Duell McCall. He gets the reward was about to leave the town when his ruse is discovered and he is arrested. He's about to be hanged when Nora comes and spends some time with him. He's about to be hanged when the daughter of the wealthiest man in town is abducted. He then offers to help Duell escape if he brings her back. Duell goes and finds her but she tells him why the man wants her back. Duell hesitates to turn her over to the man, so holds Nora captive till Duell brings her back.

Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge

1988