Directing

Richard A. Colla

Born

1936-04-18 (90)

Place of birth

USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Battlestar Galactica poster
6.9

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

Battlestar Galactica

1978

The Whole World Is Watching poster
9.0

In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a student protest movement charged with the murder of a campus policeman. The problem is that the student, and his supporters, may be more interested in making a statement about their grievances than about his acquittal.

The Whole World Is Watching

1969

Fuzz poster
5.5

Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Fuzz

1972

Live Again, Die Again poster
7.8

After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her.

Live Again, Die Again

1974

Ultimate Deception poster
5.8

Terry is desperate to start a family. Unable to bear her own children, she must rely on adoption, which proves to be a difficult task.

Ultimate Deception

1999

Danielle Steel's Zoya poster
4.9

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

Danielle Steel's Zoya

1997

Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder poster
7.2

Based on a true story, this film recounts the story of Diane Zamora and David Graham, two high school sweethearts who swear to always be together, even as they enter separate military academies. But when David confesses he had an affair with a classmate, Diane has an ultimatum, leading the two into a murderous pact with severe repercussions.

Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder

1997

The Priest Killer poster
NR

A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests. This TV movie was a backdoor pilot for the crime series SARGE and aired as a special-event spinoff of IRONSIDE.

The Priest Killer

1971

The UFO Incident poster
6.6

In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.

The UFO Incident

1975

Growing Up Brady poster
6.2

A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.

Growing Up Brady

2000

The Questor Tapes poster
5.9

Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who's now under suspect of having stolen the android.

The Questor Tapes

1974

Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer poster
3.7

When young Roxanne Ulrich (Chynna Phillips) meets wealthy charmer Herbert Pulitzer (Perry King) and enters the scandal-ridden world of the rich and famous, her life changes forever. After a whirlwind courtship, the two wed, but their marriage is quickly torn apart by drug abuse and affairs. Courteney Cox co-stars in this drama based on Roxanne Pulitzer's 1987 autobiography, written after her headline-making divorce from the publishing heir.

Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer

1989

Naked Lie poster
4.8

They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.

Naked Lie

1989

Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes poster
9.0

This riveting drama explores the explosive professional and private relationship between comedian Roseanne Barr and her volatile husband, Tom Arnold. Based on a true story.

Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes

1994

Blue Valley Songbird poster
4.8

Country singer Leana Taylor (Dolly Parton) struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank (John Terry) as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist (Billy Dean), Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged mother and the death of her father. Through flashbacks, Leana deals with her past as she attempts to move her life forward and begin a recording career.

Blue Valley Songbird

1999

Her Last Chance poster
6.0

Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.

Her Last Chance

1996

Storm and Sorrow poster
6.3

In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on the edge of the Himalayas. She's part of an international climbing expedition that has brought a team of U.S. climbers into the USSR. But completing their mission won't be easy, as Mother Nature and internal divisions hamper their journey up the perilous peak, putting all their lives in jeopardy. This made-for-TV movie is based on a true story.

Storm and Sorrow

1990

Storm and Sorrow poster
6.3

In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on the edge of the Himalayas. She's part of an international climbing expedition that has brought a team of U.S. climbers into the USSR. But completing their mission won't be easy, as Mother Nature and internal divisions hamper their journey up the perilous peak, putting all their lives in jeopardy. This made-for-TV movie is based on a true story.

Storm and Sorrow

1990

Sparks: The Price of Passion poster
6.0

A female mayor of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a stranger and threats of blackmail. On top of all this, the city is under siege by a serial killer who hunts powerful women. When the FBI moves in for the investigation, the chief officer turns out to be the stranger.

Sparks: The Price of Passion

1990

Sparks: The Price of Passion poster
6.0

A female mayor of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a stranger and threats of blackmail. On top of all this, the city is under siege by a serial killer who hunts powerful women. When the FBI moves in for the investigation, the chief officer turns out to be the stranger.

Sparks: The Price of Passion

1990

Web of Deception poster
3.2

A forensic psychatrist of the Police Department falls for a fatal attraction that threatens to terminate his marriage, his career and his life.

Web of Deception

1994

Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story poster
5.2

Cathy Mahone was once married to an Arab and they had a daughter. They have since divorced and shared custody of their daughter. But one day while on one of her visits with her father, he takes her to Jordan. Now the U.S. government cannot officially intervene. So Cathy hires three former special forces men, to go to Jordan and get her daughter back.

Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story

1993

Blind Witness poster
7.0

Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.

Blind Witness

1989

Blind Witness poster
7.0

Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.

Blind Witness

1989

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross poster
8.0

After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

1971

Olly Olly Oxen Free poster
5.3

Albie and his best friend Chris want to come up with something special to celebrate the birthday of their late-grandfather. Something everyone will remember. When granddad was young he flew through the air in a magnificent balloon using the name "The Great Sandusky". What better way to celebrate his life than to recreate that experience for all the world to see! So Albie and Chris decide to re-inflate the old balloon - but they can't do it alone. It will take all the energy and creativity of their new friend, Miss Pudd, to help the boys with their adventure - and before she knows it, to share in their adventure too!

Olly Olly Oxen Free

1978

Stingray poster
8.0

A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. He helps people who have problems and in return, they owe him a favor that he will collect later.

Stingray

1985

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige poster
6.6

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1981

The Tribe poster
6.0

A family tribe of Cro-Magnons faces hardships, such as hunger, animal attacks, Neanderthal attacks, and death from injuries as they migrate to find a more bountiful land to live on.

The Tribe

1974

Zig Zag poster
7.7

A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.

Zig Zag

1970

That Secret Sunday poster
6.8

A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter seeking instant newspaper stardom.

That Secret Sunday

1986

Deadly Medicine poster
4.0

A pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems to be a baby-killer.

Deadly Medicine

1991

When Husbands Cheat poster
3.8

After a woman helps prove her brother-in-law is cheating, she begins to work as a private investigator, but when she starts to suspect her husband is having an affair, she has to decide if she should follow her instincts or chalk it up to paranoia.

When Husbands Cheat

1998

The Other Man poster
8.0

The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.

The Other Man

1970

Dazzle poster
6.0

Beautiful successful photographer battles evil half-sisters and evil land developers to keep the family ranch intact, following her father's death. In the midst of all this, she finds love and fulfillment.

Dazzle

1995

Hidden in Silence poster
7.2

Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain.

Hidden in Silence

1996