Stuart Gillard

Directing

Stuart Gillard

Born

1950-04-28 (76)

Place of birth

Coronation, Alberta, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

49 titles

​Stuart Gillard is a Canadian film and television director, writer and actor, best known for directing the feature length film "RocketMan".

Known for

Three's Company poster
7.6

When two single girls, Janet and Chrissy, need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment, they decide to offer a room to Jack, a man they find passed out in the bathtub after the going-away party for their last roommate. However, hijinks ensure when Jack must pretend to be gay in order to throw off the scent of the trio's conservative landlady.

Three's Company

1977

Eight Is Enough poster
6.2

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.

Eight Is Enough

1977

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III poster
5.5

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1993

A Year in the Life poster
7.2

Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.

A Year in the Life

1987

Twitches Too poster
6.7

Reunited witch twins Camryn and Alex adjust to their new life as supernatural beings while at the same time trying to maintain a normal existence in this sequel to the magical Disney Channel original movie Twitches. But they soon find themselves going head to head with the forces of darkness that threaten to destroy their world. Luckily, their birth mother, the powerful Miranda, is on hand to help out.

Twitches Too

2007

Virus poster
6.3

Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.

Virus

1980

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 7 titles

F.I.S.T. poster
6.5

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

F.I.S.T.

1978

The Neptune Factor poster
5.1

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

The Neptune Factor

1973

Steel Cowboy poster
9.0

An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill collectors, agrees to haul a cargo of stolen cattle with his good ol' buddy.

Steel Cowboy

1978

Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story poster
6.0

The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of its benefits -- and some of its burdens.

Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story

1979

She Cried Murder poster
6.6

Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto the tracks to her death. Hoping to dispel the presumption that the woman committed suicide, Sarah contacts the police. But when they arrive to take her statement, she recognizes one of the detectives as the killer. Can she get anyone to believe her before she becomes his next victim?

She Cried Murder

1973

No artwork available
9.0

A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.

Why Rock the Boat?

1974

The Rowdyman poster
4.0

Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, womanizing and drinking and rejecting responsibility because he sees no reason to take life seriously. Surprisingly enough, despite his devil-may-care attitude, he has several important people in his life. He maintains a special relationship with Stan, an old mentor who lives in a nursing home, and Ruth, the only woman he truly cares about. Andrew is his best friend but grows tired of Will's antics, and he is soon to be married and moving on. Will constantly has something up his sleeve but his pranks inevitably bring pain and tragedy to those closest to him, forcing him to reevaluate his life and make some difficult decisions.

The Rowdyman

1972

Series credits

Three's Company poster
7.6

When two single girls, Janet and Chrissy, need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment, they decide to offer a room to Jack, a man they find passed out in the bathtub after the going-away party for their last roommate. However, hijinks ensure when Jack must pretend to be gay in order to throw off the scent of the trio's conservative landlady.

Three's Company

1977

Eight Is Enough poster
6.2

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.

Eight Is Enough

1977

A Year in the Life poster
7.2

Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.

A Year in the Life

1987

Blind Ambition poster
6.3

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

Blind Ambition

1979

Behind the camera

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III poster
5.5

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1993

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III poster
5.5

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1993

Twitches Too poster
6.7

Reunited witch twins Camryn and Alex adjust to their new life as supernatural beings while at the same time trying to maintain a normal existence in this sequel to the magical Disney Channel original movie Twitches. But they soon find themselves going head to head with the forces of darkness that threaten to destroy their world. Luckily, their birth mother, the powerful Miranda, is on hand to help out.

Twitches Too

2007

Hatching Pete poster
5.5

Pete is very inconspicuous at school, unlike his extrovert mate Cleatis who's happy to don a chicken suit and be the school mascot, but unfortunately, Cleatis is allergic to the suit. When there's an uproar at the chicken's disappearance, Pete is forced into the limelight as the school's basketball reputation is at stake.

Hatching Pete

2009

Avalon High poster
6.2

Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.

Avalon High

2011

Twitches poster
6.7

Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But when Camryn leaves Alex to face the darkness alone, will Coventry be doomed? Or will the sisters multiply their magic by standing together?

Twitches

2005

Paradise poster
6.0

After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the unwholesome appetite of the Jackal, a sheik who wants Sarah for himself. However, the desert also holds temptation and love. David and Sarah hide out in an oasis and build a life for themselves, discovering each other in new ways.

Paradise

1982

Paradise poster
6.0

After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the unwholesome appetite of the Jackal, a sheik who wants Sarah for himself. However, the desert also holds temptation and love. David and Sarah hide out in an oasis and build a life for themselves, discovering each other in new ways.

Paradise

1982

Girl vs. Monster poster
6.3

Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these monsters who are out for revenge.

Girl vs. Monster

2012

Going to the Mat poster
6.7

Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he's a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just might work.

Going to the Mat

2004

WarGames: The Dead Code poster
5.0

Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.

WarGames: The Dead Code

2008

The Scream Team poster
6.6

Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.

The Scream Team

2002

Full-Court Miracle poster
5.8

Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.

Full-Court Miracle

2003

RocketMan poster
5.2

An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in jeopardy, but is in danger of emerging as a hero when his new colleagues need him to save them from the unforgiving surface of the red planet.

RocketMan

1997

The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream poster
6.9

A world class ice skater eager to take the top prize in the biggest competition around finds his dreams going up in flames after his partner suffers a debilitating injury in this romantic sports drama starring Matt Lanter, Francia Rosa, and Christy Carlson Romano. Zack (Lanter) was headed for the gold when his partner suffered an injury that made competing impossible, but could a feisty female hockey player prove the key to keeping his illustrious career on track? Alexandra is an amateur Latina hockey player who has never skated professionally and doesn't much care for Zack, though a little determination goes a long way in helping Zack convince her to join him on the ice. Now, as this unlikely pair begins the arduous training process that could make them both bona-fide superstars, the girl with the icy attitude finds her handsome partner's warmth and charm bringing about a most unexpected thaw.

The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream

2008

The Initiation of Sarah poster
5.5

A sorority girl unwittingly becomes the focus of a battle between good and evil.

The Initiation of Sarah

2006

Mega Piranha poster
3.2

When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.

Mega Piranha

2010

Mega Piranha poster
3.2

When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.

Mega Piranha

2010

Kart Racer poster
6.2

Fourteen-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upcoming IKF Regional Championships rekindles their relationship as they pursue the dream together.

Kart Racer

2003

Crimes of Fashion poster
4.6

Brooke, a plain but creative and hard-working student at the top fashion school in the nation, who has come a long way from her tough childhood spent going from one foster home to another as an orphan. She has always dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, and is thrilled to finally be on her way. But, when the grandfather she never knew about passes away, her life is suddenly turned upside down. Not only has he left her his estate, but he's left her in charge of the family business, as mob boss to one of the top crime syndicates that has been trying to go legit. If that isn't enough, the handsome new student she's falling for is actually an undercover FBI agent aiming to get dirt on her to bring down the family empire.

Crimes of Fashion

2004

Riverworld poster
4.7

Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.

Riverworld

2010

The Return of the Shaggy Dog poster
4.2

The Return of the Shaggy Dog is a 1987 two-part television movie midquel to the 1959 feature film, The Shaggy Dog, set before the events of The Shaggy D.A..

The Return of the Shaggy Dog

1987

A Friend of the Family poster
4.4

After she narrowly escaped rape by attackers in Toronto, artist Alison Shaw and her devoted hunky husband Darrin, a construction worker, move to a rural small town in Ontario and nest a dream home. The locals are welcoming, especially David Snow, who makes Darrin his partner in an Antiques business and gallery for her art, but then she believes David is the serial killer behind a number of murders on women looking rather like her- given his excellent reputation, nobody believes her. Even after they move to Vancouver, her obsession remains focused and Darrin had had enough...

A Friend of the Family

2005

Spring Fever poster
3.6

Sexy Las Vegas showgirl Stevie Castle and society snob Celia Berryman are two tough-minded mothers of two very precocious young tennis champs. This unlikely duo meet and immediately clash at a tennis tournament which will name one of their daughters national champion. Meanwhile, young KC and Missy are caught up in their mothers' battle - until a mutual love of tennis draws them together to conspire to break away from the pressures of competition. The girls decide to spend 24 hours doing every wild and crazy thing they had ever dreamed up... and end up learning a lesson in grown up ways that will last them forever.

Spring Fever

1982

If You Could See What I Hear poster
5.0

A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.

If You Could See What I Hear

1982

A Man Called Sarge poster
2.8

In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers lead by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.

A Man Called Sarge

1990

A Man Called Sarge poster
2.8

In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers lead by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.

A Man Called Sarge

1990

The Escape poster
4.5

Clayton, at the age of nineteen, is convicted for a crime he did not commit. Ten years afterwards, after having taken all the abuses against him in prison, he decides to escape, without caring about the consequences.

The Escape

1998

Shades of Love: Indigo Autumn poster
5.5

The story of a young widow determined not to fall in love again. But she suddenly finds herself attracted to an older man.

Shades of Love: Indigo Autumn

1988

Shades of Love: Indigo Autumn poster
5.5

The story of a young widow determined not to fall in love again. But she suddenly finds herself attracted to an older man.

Shades of Love: Indigo Autumn

1988

Bach's Fight for Freedom poster
5.7

A young boy helps the rebellious Johann Sebastian Bach fight for his artistic freedom.

Bach's Fight for Freedom

1995

No artwork available
NR

Benjamin Franklin helps a rebel leader in her fight for America's independence in 1778.

Taking Liberty

1993