Barry Shear

Directing

Barry Shear

Born — Died

1923-03-23 — 1979-06-13

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Barry Shear (March 23, 1923 in Los Angeles, California - June 13, 1979 in New York City) was an American film director and producer. He directed films such as The Todd Killings in 1971 (based on the serial killer Charles Schmid), and the blaxploitation film Across 110th Street in 1972.

Known for

Across 110th Street poster
6.7

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

Across 110th Street

1972

Night Gallery poster
6.7

This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.

Night Gallery

1969

The Karate Killers poster
5.1

International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.

The Karate Killers

1967

Wild in the Streets poster
5.7

Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.

Wild in the Streets

1968

Strike Force poster
5.9

A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

Strike Force

1975

Starsky & Hutch poster
6.9

A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. This is a TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week and later turned into the TV-series.

Starsky & Hutch

1975

Behind the camera

Across 110th Street poster
6.7

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

Across 110th Street

1972

Night Gallery poster
6.7

This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.

Night Gallery

1969

The Karate Killers poster
5.1

International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.

The Karate Killers

1967

Wild in the Streets poster
5.7

Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.

Wild in the Streets

1968

Strike Force poster
5.9

A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

Strike Force

1975

Starsky & Hutch poster
6.9

A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. This is a TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week and later turned into the TV-series.

Starsky & Hutch

1975

The Deadly Trackers poster
6.0

Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.

The Deadly Trackers

1973

The Todd Killings poster
4.6

Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.

The Todd Killings

1971

The Todd Killings poster
4.6

Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.

The Todd Killings

1971

The Crash of Flight 401 poster
6.8

True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.

The Crash of Flight 401

1978

Short Walk to Daylight poster
6.7

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

Short Walk to Daylight

1972

The Billion Dollar Threat poster
5.5

A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.

The Billion Dollar Threat

1979

The San Pedro Bums poster
7.0

Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs after a robbery of which their buddy was the victim.

The San Pedro Bums

1977

Punch and Jody poster
9.0

When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?

Punch and Jody

1974

The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 poster
5.0

During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.

The Captive: The Longest Drive 2

1976

Undercover with the KKK poster
5.2

The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testified as a key prosecution witness during the trial of several Klansmen for crimes of destruction and murder.

Undercover with the KKK

1979

Around the World with Nellie Bly poster
10.0

Made-for-TV musical inspired by the real-life travels of a celebrated 1800s female newspaper columnist.

Around the World with Nellie Bly

1960

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry poster
7.0

Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to the town and sees Curry in the audience; the man on trial is an impostor who didn't commit the murder he's accused of. Originally a longer duration episode of the TV series Alias Smith and Jones (1971). It occasionally appeared in syndication as a TV movie, under its own name, with the series title bluntly edited out of the regular series' opening credits.

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

1971

Rickles poster
NR

Various comedy sketches with the Master of Insults, Don Rickles.

Rickles

1975

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You poster
8.5

Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

1971

No artwork available
NR

Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".

The Enemy Before Us

1970

A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 poster
NR

A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live from the Adelphi Theatre in New York.

A.N.T.A. Album of 1955

1955

Jarrett poster
4.7

A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls.

Jarrett

1973

Keefer poster
8.0

An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.

Keefer

1978

No artwork available
NR

Tiny Grimes performs "Never Too Old to Swing".

Never Too Old to Swing

1945