Writing
John D.F. Black
Born — Died
1932-12-30 — 2018-11-29
Place of birth
USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
18 titles
Known for
6.4Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Shaft
1971
1.0Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovered? Plenty! On December 13, 2016 fans can experience Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, a newly produced multi-part documentary featuring footage from the cutting room floor, long preserved in film canisters by the Roddenberry Estate. The origins of the classic series are explored with new interviews featuring cast and production personnel combined with newly-found deleted scenes, alternate angles, outtakes, behind the scenes moments, and original visual effects elements to tell the definitive story on the making and enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry's creation.
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
2016
6.2Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in September of 1966. This 2-hour documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and the original films.
50 Years of Star Trek
2016
6.0An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
A Shadow in the Streets
1975
6.3This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing, would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.
Nobody's Perfect
1968
6.0A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
The Carey Treatment
1972
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
6.2Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in September of 1966. This 2-hour documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and the original films.
50 Years of Star Trek
2016
5.8Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovered? Plenty! On December 13, 2016 fans can experience Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, a newly produced multi-part documentary featuring footage from the cutting room floor, long preserved in film canisters by the Roddenberry Estate. The origins of the classic series are explored with new interviews featuring cast and production personnel combined with newly-found deleted scenes, alternate angles, outtakes, behind the scenes moments, and original visual effects elements to tell the definitive story on the making and enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry's creation.
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
2016
2000s · 2 titles
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.4Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Shaft
1971
6.0An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
A Shadow in the Streets
1975
6.3This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing, would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.
Nobody's Perfect
1968
6.0A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
The Carey Treatment
1972
8.0The Cetacean is called upon to recover a space probe that crashes in the sea, and Mark soon learns that the probe is covered with thousands of tiny alien beings. They intend to learn all they can about the human race by invading host bodies and controlling them. Mark must return them to space before they destroy all humanity.
Man from Atlantis III: Killer Spores
1977
6.0In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
The Clone Master
1978
6.0In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
The Clone Master
1978
Dinner guests of a wealthy millionaire must justify their own existence or face the penalty of death.
Survival
1976
6.7A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. Feature film edited together from three first-season episodes of the NBC western series LAREDO
Three Guns for Texas
1968
7.4A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
Thief
1971
6.1Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971
4.0A mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls.
The Unearthly
1957
10.0No synopsis available yet.
L'ANIME CHE OGNI OBESO HA BISOGNO
2026

