Peter Baldwin

Directing

Peter Baldwin

Born 1931-01-11 · Winnetka, Illinois, United States

Peter Baldwin (1931–2017) was an American director, producer, actor, and screenwriter for television. Baldwin started his career as a contract player at Paramount Studios and eventually became a television director with an extensive résumé. As well as directing every episode of The Brady Bunch, he also directed a few episodes of The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1971. He won an Emmy in 1988 for The Wonder Years.

Acting credits

Stalag 17 poster
7.7

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

Stalag 17

1953

The Tin Star poster
7.0

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

The Tin Star

1957

I Married a Monster from Outer Space poster
6.0

Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

1958

Teacher's Pet poster
6.8

The rugged editor of a city newspaper poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

Teacher's Pet

1958

The Trap poster
6.9

Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...

The Trap

1959

The Turning Point poster
6.3

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.

The Turning Point

1952

The Mattei Affair poster
7.5

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.

The Mattei Affair

1972

The Space Children poster
4.2

A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.

The Space Children

1958

The Possessed poster
6.8

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

The Possessed

1965

Short Cut to Hell poster
5.8

A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit; she tries to convince him to surrender before it's too late.

Short Cut to Hell

1957

Love in Rome poster
5.5

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

Love in Rome

1960

The Girls of Pleasure Island poster
5.8

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.

The Girls of Pleasure Island

1953

Escape by Night poster
7.0

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.

Escape by Night

1960

The Weekend Murders poster
6.1

An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...

The Weekend Murders

1970

The Ghost poster
6.3

A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.

The Ghost

1963

Little Boy Lost poster
8.0

A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

Little Boy Lost

1953

Desert War poster
7.0

A woman is discovered in a shelled-out truck in the Libyan Desert by a small group of soldiers.

Desert War

1962

I soliti rapinatori a Milano poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

I soliti rapinatori a Milano

1961

Behind the camera

Meet Wally Sparks poster
4.7

Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal.

Meet Wally Sparks

1997

A Very Brady Christmas poster
6.2

Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?

A Very Brady Christmas

1988

Lots of Luck poster
7.5

A middle-aged Annette Funicello stars in this made-for-Disney film about a blue-collar family whose lives are forever transformed when they win the lottery.

Lots of Luck

1985

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island poster
5.2

The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist.

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

1981

The Brady Girls Get Married poster
5.4

Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.

The Brady Girls Get Married

1981

Space Force poster
5.0

The comic adventures that befall a crew of astronauts assigned to a remote military space station.

Space Force

1978

No artwork available
NR

The Wexelblatts and the Burleys are two newly young married couples, who were all friends from Warren Harding High School, now trying to adjust to married life and changing lifestyles.

The Lovebirds

1979

Great Day poster
NR

Pilot that was not picked up by ABC about the escapades of skid-row bums living at an inner-city mission.

Great Day

1977

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency poster
5.7

Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open arms, but the neighbors are not so sure and then Henrietta escapes.

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

1984

No artwork available
7.0

A writer and a painter decide to leave the big city and move to the country. In order to support themselves, the couple design greeting cards.

Shakespeare Loves Rembrandt

1974