Howard W. Koch

Production

Howard W. Koch

Born — Died

1916-04-11 — 2001-02-16

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

42 titles

Howard Winchel Koch was an American producer and director of film and television.

Known for

Dinah! poster
7.0

Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.

Dinah!

1974

Ghost poster
7.2

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Ghost

1990

Airplane II: The Sequel poster
6.1

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

The Sea Hawk poster
7.2

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

The Sea Hawk

1940

The Odd Couple poster
7.4

In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.

The Odd Couple

1968

A New Leaf poster
7.3

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

A New Leaf

1971

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Ghost poster
7.2

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Ghost

1990

Airplane II: The Sequel poster
6.1

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

The Sea Hawk poster
7.2

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

The Sea Hawk

1940

The Odd Couple poster
7.4

In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.

The Odd Couple

1968

A New Leaf poster
7.3

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

A New Leaf

1971

Andy Hardy Comes Home poster
5.0

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

Andy Hardy Comes Home

1958

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever poster
6.7

Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970

Macabre poster
6.0

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.

Macabre

1958

The Last Mile poster
6.5

Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.

The Last Mile

1959

Plaza Suite poster
6.2

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.

Plaza Suite

1971

Some Kind of Hero poster
5.6

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Some Kind of Hero

1982

The Girl in Black Stockings poster
6.1

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.

The Girl in Black Stockings

1957

Frankenstein 1970 poster
5.4

The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Frankenstein 1970

1958

The Black Sleep poster
6.2

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...

The Black Sleep

1956

Once Is Not Enough poster
5.2

An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.

Once Is Not Enough

1975

Jungle Heat poster
5.5

Japanese communists attempt to take over Hawaii and only Dr. Jim Ransom can stop them.

Jungle Heat

1957

Last of the Red Hot Lovers poster
5.7

A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

1972

Big House, U.S.A poster
6.5

A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.

Big House, U.S.A

1955

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? poster
8.0

At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercial interruption. Barbara Eden, Cloris Leachman, Diahann Carroll and others appear and join in the singing and dancing and mugging.

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?

1976

Untamed Youth poster
4.1

Two sisters are arrested for skinny-dipping on their way to Los Angeles and are sentenced to labor work on a farm.

Untamed Youth

1957

Shining Victory poster
6.1

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.

Shining Victory

1941

Revolt at Fort Laramie poster
6.6

At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux, they unite their forces to fight them.

Revolt at Fort Laramie

1957

Shield for Murder poster
6.7

A crooked police detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep the stolen money.

Shield for Murder

1954

Beachhead poster
5.8

On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.

Beachhead

1954

Badge 373 poster
5.7

When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.

Badge 373

1973

Badge 373 poster
5.7

When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.

Badge 373

1973

Emergency Hospital poster
7.3

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

Emergency Hospital

1956

Hell Bound poster
5.8

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Hell Bound

1957

War Drums poster
5.8

The friendship between a white man & an Apache chief is tested when they fall in love with the same woman

War Drums

1957

The Broken Star poster
6.9

A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.

The Broken Star

1956

Voodoo Island poster
4.6

A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.

Voodoo Island

1957

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NR

Eliot Ness and his team work to prevent the attempted assassination of President Elect FDR in Miami Beach in 1933.

The Gun of Zangara

1960

Star Spangled Girl poster
5.6

A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.

Star Spangled Girl

1971

Quincannon, Frontier Scout poster
5.2

A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.

Quincannon, Frontier Scout

1956

Fort Bowie poster
5.9

Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.

Fort Bowie

1958

Hot Cars poster
5.8

Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.

Hot Cars

1956

Crime Against Joe poster
5.9

Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.

Crime Against Joe

1956

Rebel in Town poster
7.1

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death

Rebel in Town

1956

Three Bad Sisters poster
4.3

Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.

Three Bad Sisters

1956

Desert Sands poster
5.0

The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.

Desert Sands

1955