Arnold Laven

Directing

Arnold Laven

Born — Died

1922-02-23 — 2009-09-13

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

Arnold Laven was an American film and television director and producer. He was one of the founders and principals of the American film and television production company Levy-Gardner-Laven. Laven was a producer of, among other things, the long-running western television series The Rifleman and The Big Valley. He also directed motion pictures, including Without Warning!, The Rack, The Monster That Challenged the World, Geronimo, Rough Night in Jericho, and Sam Whiskey. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Laven directed dozens of episodes of television series, including episodes of Mannix, The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, The Rockford Files and CHiPs.

Known for

Behind the camera

White Lightning poster
6.2

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

White Lightning

1973

Rough Night in Jericho poster
6.7

The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.

Rough Night in Jericho

1967

Clambake poster
5.8

The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.

Clambake

1967

The Scalphunters poster
6.4

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

The Scalphunters

1968

Geronimo poster
5.5

In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.

Geronimo

1962

Geronimo poster
5.5

In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.

Geronimo

1962

The Glory Guys poster
6.5

Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.

The Glory Guys

1965

The Glory Guys poster
6.5

Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.

The Glory Guys

1965

The Monster That Challenged the World poster
5.6

Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.

The Monster That Challenged the World

1957

Slaughter on 10th Avenue poster
5.8

A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

1957

The Rack poster
6.6

Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?

The Rack

1956

Sam Whiskey poster
5.7

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

Sam Whiskey

1969

Sam Whiskey poster
5.7

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

Sam Whiskey

1969

The Vampire poster
6.2

A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.

The Vampire

1957

Vice Squad poster
6.1

A Los Angeles police captain ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

Vice Squad

1953

Down Three Dark Streets poster
5.8

An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

Down Three Dark Streets

1954

Anna Lucasta poster
6.2

The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.

Anna Lucasta

1958

Back to the Planet of the Apes poster
6.0

Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]

Back to the Planet of the Apes

1980

The Honkers poster
6.0

An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.

The Honkers

1972

Without Warning! poster
6.0

Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears

Without Warning!

1952

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes poster
7.3

When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax. Meanwhile, their friend Burke is captured by the ape authorities and is to be brainwashed by a brilliant ape scientist named Wanda. [The fourth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation"]

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

1980

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love poster
7.0

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

1974

Death Follows a Psycho poster
NR

Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is holding four people hostage and will kill them all unless Griffin delivers the person that the bomber really wants dead.

Death Follows a Psycho

1972

Underground poster
7.0

An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.

Underground

1970