Gary Nelson

Directing

Gary Nelson

Born 1934-10-06 · Los Angeles, California, USA

An American television and film director. He has directed many well-know television series, including Gunsmoke, The Patty Duke Show, Gilligan's Island and Happy Days among dozens of others. In addition, Nelson has directed five films, including two for Walt Disney Pictures. In 1978, Nelson was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directoral Achievement for Washington: Behind Closed Doors. He was married to actress Judi Meredith and has two sons. Nelson has semi-retired, but continues to occasionally teach the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Nelson (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold poster
4.8

After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

1986

The Black Hole poster
5.8

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

The Black Hole

1979

Freaky Friday poster
6.1

School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.

Freaky Friday

1976

Medical Story poster
7.0

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

Medical Story

1975

Shooter poster
6.2

"Shooter" (a.k.a., Matt Thompson, a.k.a., Gruwald) is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets involved in the lives of the soldiers he meets and "shoots." There's Ngoc, the Vietnamese photo lab tech; Klause, a German photographer swiping Buddhas; Rene, a French photographer who carries an AK-47; Stork, Matt's superstitious roommate who is also a photographer; Rizzo, the irascible editor; Lan, an American-educated Vietnamese reporter; and Tracey, an embassy worker who is Matt's former flame.

Shooter

1988

Melanie Darrow poster
9.0

A flamboyant female defense attorney takes on a seemingly airtight case, defending an apparently gold-digging husband against the charge of murdering his older, wealthy wife.

Melanie Darrow

1997

Murder in Three Acts poster
5.9

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Murder in Three Acts

1986

Get Smart, Again! poster
5.4

KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.

Get Smart, Again!

1989

Murder Me, Murder You poster
7.3

Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

Murder Me, Murder You

1983

The Sands of Time poster
10.0

Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

The Sands of Time

1992

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers poster
6.7

A young boy gets along better with the animals he befriends around his family's Canadian farm than with the people he lives with.

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers

1975

Molly and Lawless John poster
3.3

Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handsome young man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation, however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows that she's learned how to assert herself.

Molly and Lawless John

1972

To Kill a Cop poster
NR

Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.

To Kill a Cop

1978

The Return of Ironside poster
5.1

After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting with the joys of a rest deserved well with Katherine, his wife, in their vineyard recently bought. However, a few days after his official departure, he is contacted by persons in charge for the police force of Denver, which offers the post of general manager temporarily to him their services, following the assassination for preceding occupying of the station in question. Initially reticent, Ironside ends up yielding and, with the agreement of his wife, agrees to take up the challenge, the more so as he has pleasure to find Susan, the girl of the one of her former assistants.

The Return of Ironside

1993

Santee poster
5.5

Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.

Santee

1973

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert poster
6.2

A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

1993

The Baron and the Kid poster
8.0

Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whose reunion with his long-lost son (Greg Webb) sets the stage for a series of adventures as they join forces to open a pool hall. Based on a hit song written by Cash, the film also stars Richard Roundtree, Tracy Pollan, June Carter Cash and Darren McGavin. The Cash family patriarch performs on the soundtrack.

The Baron and the Kid

1984

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice poster
10.0

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Secrets of the Pirate's Inn poster
8.0

A gang of kids helps a sea captain search for a pirate’s treasure that’s rumored to be hidden somewhere in the old dilapidated inn the sea captain just inherited from his dead brother. Along the way, they unravel a series of clues which lead to a variety of hidden passages and trap doors. But they are not alone in their quest for Jean Lafitte’s pirate goodies!

Secrets of the Pirate's Inn

1969

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder poster
7.0

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou poster
10.0

Two young boys must retrieve a church bell from the depths of a murky lagoon in a Louisiana swamp. Complicating matters is the fact that the lagoon is home to a large and deadly alligator.

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

1971

Murder in Coweta County poster
7.0

Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.

Murder in Coweta County

1983

More Than Murder poster
5.1

Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.

More Than Murder

1984

The Lookalike poster
3.7

A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter

The Lookalike

1990