Directing

Don Medford

Born 1917-11-26 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

Donald Muller (November 26, 1917, Detroit, Michigan - December 12, 2012, West Hills, California), known professionally as Don Medford, was an American television director who directed over 75 TV series between 1951 and 1989, and who also directed three movies. Medford directed the final two-part episode of the 1960s television series The Fugitive and the final episode of the 1980s television series The Colbys. He also directed the violent 1971 Western film The Hunting Party.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Hunting Party poster
6.2

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

The Hunting Party

1971

The Organization poster
6.3

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.

The Organization

1971

The Clone Master poster
6.0

In 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

Feathertop poster
NR

A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.

Feathertop

1955

Ghostbreakers poster
4.5

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.

Ghostbreakers

1967

To Trap a Spy poster
5.9

The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop the assassination of an African head of state with the help of a simple housewife.

To Trap a Spy

1965

The November Plan poster
7.0

A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.

The November Plan

1977

Something For An Empty Briefcase poster
NR

Joe wants a different future than one as a petty hoodlum and when he attempts to rob an aspiring dancer Noli, he glimpses the possibilities. He imagines purchasing a briefcase as a start but his crime partner is reluctant to let him go.

Something For An Empty Briefcase

1953

Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool poster
5.5

A man tells the story of his coming to adulthood when he left home at age 18 and learned the consequences of telling a lie to impress a girl.

Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool

1954

Sizzle poster
10.0

A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal booze for the mob.

Sizzle

1981

Incident in San Francisco poster
5.7

A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him.

Incident in San Francisco

1971

Frankenstein poster
10.0

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, working in a castle on a remote Swiss island, attempts to create a perfect man but his resultant creation turns out to be a murderous beast who must be destroyed.

Frankenstein

1952

No artwork available
NR

Musician Joey Crown is down on his luck. An alcoholic, he can't find work because no one trusts him. Broke, he hocks his trumpet but then steps in front of truck which knocks him onto the sidewalk. He awakens in a strange world where no one can see him and he presumes that he has died. He eventually bumps into someone who can in fact see him, a fellow horn player who tells him that it's still within Joey's power to decide on life or death.

A Passage for Trumpet

Father of Hell Town poster
NR

In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.

Father of Hell Town

1985

A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan poster
NR

This special is a wonderful retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband, and their servants.

A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan

1956

The Evil Within poster
NR

Scientist perfects a chemical unleashing the beast within, but before he can create an antidote, his neglected wife accidentally is dosed when he has to rush a batch home to keep it refrigerated. Her mild resentment of his endless hours at the lab accelerates into a torrent, after she gobbles pie on which the potion dripped.

The Evil Within

1953

The Dark, Dark Hours poster
NR

A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.

The Dark, Dark Hours

1954

Coach of the Year poster
7.7

An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.

Coach of the Year

1980

Rebel Range poster
NR

A Union law allows homes vacated by confederates to be sold at auction. A woman comes back to claim her home irregardless of the fact that it is lawfully occupied.

Rebel Range

Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI

1967