James L. Conway

Directing

James L. Conway

Born 1950-10-27 · New York City, New York, USA

James L. Conway (born October 27, 1950 in New York City, U.S.) is an American film and television director, producer, and writer, studio executive, and novelist. Movies Conway directed include The Boogens and Hangar 18. Television series he worked on include The Magicians, Aquarius, Supernatural, Smallville, Psych, 90210, Charmed, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, University Hospital, Burke's Law (the 1994 remake), Paradise, and Matt Houston. Conway also directed the TV movies Last of the Mohicans and Incredible Rocky Mountain Race and the NBC mini-series Greatest Heroes of the Bible. From 1996 to 2002, Conway served as Executive Vice President of Spelling Television, working on many television series including 7th Heaven, Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210. Conway began writing novels in 2012. His novels include Dead and Not So Buried (2012), Sexy Babe (2012) and In Cold Blonde (2013).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

California Gold Rush poster
7.0

Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever.

California Gold Rush

1981

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior poster
6.1

When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant Commander Worf to discover the Klingons' true intentions.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior

1995

Hangar 18 poster
5.2

During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.

Hangar 18

1980

Earthbound poster
5.0

A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.

Earthbound

1981

Star Trek: Enterprise - In a Mirror, Darkly poster
NR

Set in the dark and oppressive Mirror Universe, Commander Archer leads a mutiny in a bold attempt to seize control of an advanced starship - a vessel from the future that may be the key to saving the Terran Empire.

Star Trek: Enterprise - In a Mirror, Darkly

2014

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow poster
6.8

A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1980

The Boogens poster
5.5

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootlegging tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

The Boogens

1981

Last of the Mohicans poster
6.5

During the French and Indian War in colonial America, a white scout, with two of his Indian brothers, helps a British officer escort two women through dangerous territory, with both French troops and hostile Indians after them.

Last of the Mohicans

1977

The Lincoln Conspiracy poster
6.0

Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.

The Lincoln Conspiracy

1977

Star Trek: Enterprise - Broken Bow poster
NR

In the mid-22nd century, the Earth ship Enterprise is launched under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. When the crew rescues an alien from a crashed spaceship, Earth gets its first look at the alien's race - the Klingons. Archer and his crew must walk a fine line as they attempt to communicate with the Klingon pilot, whose language is completely unknown, and whose homeworld wants him back. Is this the beginning of friendship...or interstellar war?

Star Trek: Enterprise - Broken Bow

2013

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6.5

In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black man and freed slave who has lost his papers. Locals with a grudge against Lincoln and a hatred of African-Americans frame Henry for stealing, and it's up to Lincoln to defend the man and find the vital clue that will set him free.

Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter

1978

The Bermuda Triangle poster
5.6

Documentary on with strange goings-on in the 'devil's triangle'.

The Bermuda Triangle

1979

Jailbirds poster
7.7

Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed together.

Jailbirds

1991

The Fall of the House of Usher poster
6.5

After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

The Fall of the House of Usher

1979

The Fall of the House of Usher poster
6.5

After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

The Fall of the House of Usher

1979

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race poster
6.0

An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells the story of the epic cross-country race between a young Mark Twain and his rival, Mike Fink. The bulk of the film depicts the race, which proves to be more a test of character than of stamina

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

1977

In Search of Historic Jesus poster
4.8

This examination of historical sources speculates on the accuracy of the biblical depiction of Jesus.

In Search of Historic Jesus

1979

Beyond and Back poster
6.8

A documentary with interviews of people who claimed to have died and then come back from the dead.

Beyond and Back

1978

Nashville Grab poster
9.0

A dashing, fast-living country singer almost turns Nashville upside-down after he is kidnapped by a pair of conniving female convicts determined to use him as a passport to freedom.

Nashville Grab

1981

The Story of Noah poster
2.0

A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.

The Story of Noah

1978

Legend of the Wild poster
6.0

Patchwork movie edited from episodes from the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977).

Legend of the Wild

1981

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival poster
9.0

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

1978

The Adventures of Nellie Bly poster
5.5

A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend through her exposes of corruption and inhumane conditions in New York of the 1880s in "The New York World."

The Adventures of Nellie Bly

1981

In Search of Noah's Ark poster
4.0

An investigation into the theory that Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's Ark.

In Search of Noah's Ark

1976