Leslie Stevens

Writing

Leslie Stevens

Born — Died

1924-02-03 — 1998-04-24

Place of birth

Washington, D.C., USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

31 titles

Leslie Clark Stevens IV was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network, The Outer Limits (1963–1965) and Stoney Burke (1962–63), and Search (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film Incubus (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, est: The Steersman Handbook (1970).

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

Return to the Blue Lagoon poster
6.2

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Return to the Blue Lagoon

1991

Eye of the Cat poster
5.5

A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.

Eye of the Cat

1969

The Left Handed Gun poster
6.0

When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

The Left Handed Gun

1958

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century poster
6.2

Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979

Incubus poster
5.8

On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.

Incubus

1966

Incubus poster
5.8

On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.

Incubus

1966

Three Kinds of Heat poster
5.4

Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London.

Three Kinds of Heat

1987

Three Kinds of Heat poster
5.4

Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London.

Three Kinds of Heat

1987

Private Property poster
6.3

A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.

Private Property

1960

Private Property poster
6.3

A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.

Private Property

1960

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? poster
9.0

A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

1977

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? poster
9.0

A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

1977

Valerie 23 poster
NR

A disabled man is offered a prototype android companion in the form of the beautiful Valerie. But when he begins a romance with his physical therapist, his robot develops feelings of jealousy.

Valerie 23

1995

Portrait of a Murderer poster
9.0

Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.

Portrait of a Murderer

1958

I Love a Mystery poster
6.2

Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.

I Love a Mystery

1973

I Love a Mystery poster
6.2

Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.

I Love a Mystery

1973

The Aquarians poster
6.5

A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean.

The Aquarians

1970

Invitation to a Gunfighter poster
NR

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

Invitation to a Gunfighter

1957

Gordy poster
5.4

A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.

Gordy

1995

Hero's Island poster
5.6

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

Hero's Island

1962

Hero's Island poster
5.6

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

Hero's Island

1962

Where's Charley? poster
NR

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

Where's Charley?

1957

Riding with Death poster
2.9

Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible. He is assigned to transport a chemical called Tripolydine, which is purported to be the most efficient fuel; when the cover is blown on that and he uncovers and stops the Tripolydine fraud, he must then stop a terrorist from blowing up race cars.

Riding with Death

1976

The Marriage-Go-Round poster
4.4

An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!

The Marriage-Go-Round

1961

The Marriage-Go-Round poster
4.4

An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!

The Marriage-Go-Round

1961

Fanfare for a Death Scene poster
7.0

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.

Fanfare for a Death Scene

1964

Fanfare for a Death Scene poster
7.0

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.

Fanfare for a Death Scene

1964

Fer-de-Lance poster
5.4

An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.

Fer-de-Lance

1974

Probe poster
5.8

That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Probe

1972

Adieu Prudence poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adieu Prudence

1985