David Anspaugh

Directing

David Anspaugh

Born

1946-09-24 (80)

Place of birth

Decatur, Indiana, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Anspaugh (born September 24, 1946) is an American television and film director. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Anspaugh studied at Indiana University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, after which he taught high school in Colorado. His work as an associate producer on television movies led to his producing and directing Hill Street Blues, for which he won two Emmy Awards. He followed this with St. Elsewhere and Miami Vice before making his feature film debut with Hoosiers. His additional screen credits include Fresh Horses, Rudy, Moonlight and Valentino, and The Game of Their Lives. An upcoming move is being made called Little Red Wagon which wil…

Known for

Hoosiers poster
7.0

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Hoosiers

1986

Rudy poster
7.4

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

Rudy

1993

The Game of Their Lives poster
5.8

During the 1950 World Cup, the hastily assembled U.S. soccer team enters as heavy underdogs when matched up against the highest-ranked team in competition — England.

The Game of Their Lives

2005

Fresh Horses poster
5.3

A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.

Fresh Horses

1988

WiseGirls poster
5.5

Meg, Raychel and Kate are three waitresses at a restaurant frequented by mob bosses. Their lives become complicated when one of the women witnesses a crime, and the three friends suddenly find themselves entangled in their customers’ dangerous world.

WiseGirls

2002

Moonlight and Valentino poster
5.6

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

Moonlight and Valentino

1995

Behind the camera

Hoosiers poster
7.0

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Hoosiers

1986

Rudy poster
7.4

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

Rudy

1993

The Game of Their Lives poster
5.8

During the 1950 World Cup, the hastily assembled U.S. soccer team enters as heavy underdogs when matched up against the highest-ranked team in competition — England.

The Game of Their Lives

2005

Fresh Horses poster
5.3

A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.

Fresh Horses

1988

WiseGirls poster
5.5

Meg, Raychel and Kate are three waitresses at a restaurant frequented by mob bosses. Their lives become complicated when one of the women witnesses a crime, and the three friends suddenly find themselves entangled in their customers’ dangerous world.

WiseGirls

2002

Moonlight and Valentino poster
5.6

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

Moonlight and Valentino

1995

Swing Vote poster
5.8

A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.

Swing Vote

1999

Little Red Wagon poster
6.4

With nothing more than a blazing spirit of philanthropy and his beat-up red wagon, Zach sets out to help homeless children in America. In the process, he sweeps his fractured family - and ultimately the entire country - along with him.

Little Red Wagon

2012

Two Against Time poster
4.7

This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.

Two Against Time

2002

L.A. County 187 poster
7.0

It's another night in L.A. County 187 for policeman Walter Drazin and his team, but when they find the corpses of an Asian family in a burned down club, arson and murder come to the fore. As Drazin investigates the guests of the club, the sordid truth about the city's underworld activities rears its ugly head.

L.A. County 187

2003

The Last Leaf poster
8.6

An Easter Parable: As lingering pneumonia takes her will to live, a young girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drops from a dying vine outside her window. Her neighbor, an elderly artist frustrated by his inability to paint what is in his heart, follows the example of the Savior and makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her life. In doing so, he creates the masterpiece he has been struggling to paint.

The Last Leaf

1983

In the Company of Darkness poster
6.5

An undercover policewoman (Helen Hunt) alarms her colleague lover (Jeff Fahey) as she role-plays to lure out a serial killer (Steven Weber) to secure evidence for the case.

In the Company of Darkness

1993

Deadly Care poster
6.7

True story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.

Deadly Care

1987