Directing
Richard Michaels
Born
1936-02-15 (90)
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Known for
Directing
Credits
26 titles
Richard Michaels is an American television director and producer whose career spanned several decades, particularly from the 1960s through the 1990s. He is best known for directing over 50 episodes of the classic sitcom Bewitched (1964–1972), significantly contributing to its enduring popularity. Michaels also directed television movies such as ...And Your Name Is Jonah (1979) and Homeward Bound (1980). His work is characterized by a keen sense of comedic timing and a deep understanding of television production.
Known for
6.4Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
Red River
1988
5.6When Nancy and her teenage son move to Deerview, the small, old-fashioned community will never be the same. Nancy soon realizes she is the only woman in town who would rather crack a joke than an egg. But the town gets their biggest laugh when Nancy organizes a mother-son football game with the unathletic housewives.
Backfield in Motion
1991
6.8A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.
Silence of the Heart
1984
6.7In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Berlin Tunnel 21
1981
6.7A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.
...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979
6.0Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
1990
Behind the camera
6.4Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
Red River
1988
5.6When Nancy and her teenage son move to Deerview, the small, old-fashioned community will never be the same. Nancy soon realizes she is the only woman in town who would rather crack a joke than an egg. But the town gets their biggest laugh when Nancy organizes a mother-son football game with the unathletic housewives.
Backfield in Motion
1991
6.8A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.
Silence of the Heart
1984
6.7In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Berlin Tunnel 21
1981
6.7A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.
...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979
6.0Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
1990
8.0A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Canadian correspondent on the trail of a human interest story.
My Husband Is Missing
1978
Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on Bell's relationship with a father-less handicapped boy, and his efforts to be a big brother to him. The boy ends up being an inspiration for Bell when his disease makes the athlete more afflicted than the boy.
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
1991
5.6A young reporter forces her way into a veteran newswoman's life.
Her Wicked Ways
1991
10.0Caroline Landry's husband has a sudden mid-life crisis and their idealistic 20-year marriage breaks apart when he leaves her for a younger woman. With the help of her friends and children, Caroline learns to pick herself up again and do the impossible - move on with her life.
Love and Betrayal
1989
4.8A father gets a crash course in the outdoors in this made for television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way through a series of mishaps.
Father and Scout
1994
5.6True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
The Children Nobody Wanted
1981
6.0The film details the life of Ray Mancini, a World Boxing Association world lightweight champion boxer from 1982 to 1984, Hollywood actor and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
1985
9.0A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.
Scared Straight! Another Story
1980
10.0Carolyn Sapp, Miss America 1992 (and a non-actress), plays herself in this drama based on her personal story of abuse and betrayal at the hands of the man she loved, Nu'u Fa'aola, a Samoan pro-football player for the New York Jets.
Miss America: Behind the Crown
1992
6.5A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
The Plutonium Incident
1980
8.2A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the bus in New York City on her way to Vermont, and reluctantly accepts the help of a hard-nosed reporter in tracking him down after being given the runaround from the police.
Rockabye
1986
5.0The relationship among a divorced man, his incurably ill teenage son, and his long-estranged father is explored when the youngster joins his dad for one final summer vacation and they end up at the grandfather's vineyard where he reconciles the two older men.
Homeward Bound
1980
9.0A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children.
Once Upon a Family
1980
6.6A youthful trio plan a caper with the use of astrology.
How Come Nobody's on Our Side?
1974
7.0A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
1983
7.5A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
1977
5.2A happy-go-lucky veterinary student, paralyzed for life in a college polo meet, finds love with a young woman who leaves her fiancée to help him overcome his handicap.
Leave Yesterday Behind
1978
5.0The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Having Babies II
1977
5.6A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.
Blue Skies Again
1983
A British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood.
Indiscreet
1988
