William A. Graham

Directing

William A. Graham

Born — Died

1926-05-15 — 2013-09-12

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

William A. Graham is an American television and film director. Graham directed episodes of many TV series including The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, The Big Valley, Batman and Ironside. He also produced and directed the romance adventure sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). Graham was the director of Elvis Presley's final acting in a motion picture, Change of Habit in 1969. Description above from the Wikipedia article  William A. Graham (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  

Known for

Behind the camera

Return to the Blue Lagoon poster
6.2

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Return to the Blue Lagoon

1991

Return to the Blue Lagoon poster
6.2

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Return to the Blue Lagoon

1991

Larry poster
6.7

A man who has been confined from early childhood to a dubiously run home for the mentally challenged is transferred to a state mental hospital when the home is shut down. Staff discover that, despite outward appearances, the man was wrongly confined and is of average intelligence.

Larry

1974

Honky poster
5.1

Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.

Honky

1971

Show Girl poster
NR

A live recording of Carol Channing's revue on Broadway, filmed for early Canadian pay-TV.

Show Girl

1961

21 Hours at Munich poster
6.3

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

21 Hours at Munich

1976

Jigsaw poster
7.0

In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himself accused of murder after being found unconscious in the apartment of a slain state official.

Jigsaw

1972

Marriage: Year One poster
6.0

A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.

Marriage: Year One

1971

Shark Kill poster
5.3

Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.

Shark Kill

1976

The Amazing Howard Hughes poster
6.4

The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.

The Amazing Howard Hughes

1977

Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway poster
NR

Aired on Omnibus , Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about the town of New Rochelle, New York. The title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway. The story concerns a romance between a maid who stands to inherit a fortune and an unpopular out-of-towner. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1906 and was briefly revived in 1912. Broadcast live on television on March 15, 1959.

Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

1959

Calendar Girl Murders poster
4.9

During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black gloved killer. When the killer begins to strike again, going in the order of the calendar itself, a hard nosed cop realizes that he needs to solve the mystery, or risk all of the models ending up in the morgue!

Calendar Girl Murders

1984

Women of San Quentin poster
5.0

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Women of San Quentin

1983

A Friend to Die For poster
6.3

Who could have stabbed popular, beautiful cheerleader Stacy to death? It could have been antisocial Goth girl Monica; it could've been angst-ridden Jill -- or maybe it was the plain girl nobody suspected.

A Friend to Die For

1994

Blood Crime poster
5.5

For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. Enraged, Pruitt pummels the man. Once at the ER, however, she changes her mind and names a male nurse as her attacker. But before Pruitt can make amends, he learns that his victim, the son of Sheriff Morgan McKenna, is dead

Blood Crime

2002

Waterhole #3 poster
5.9

After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.

Waterhole #3

1967

Dying to Belong poster
5.5

When a girl's friend is killed by a college hazing, she is the only one who can find out the truth.

Dying to Belong

1997

Police Story: The Freeway Killings poster
6.2

Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

1987

Contract on Cherry Street poster
6.8

A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

Contract on Cherry Street

1977

Change of Habit poster
5.3

Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would be poorly received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.

Change of Habit

1969

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story poster
6.1

The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery conviction to his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player.

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

1978

The Man Who Captured Eichmann poster
6.2

Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

1996

Sleeping with the Devil poster
7.2

Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang, and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it is too late does Rebecca discover that Strang has a very dark side...

Sleeping with the Devil

1997

Thief poster
7.4

A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.

Thief

1971

Billy the Kid poster
6.9

Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.

Billy the Kid

1989

Where the Lilies Bloom poster
5.9

A family of Appalachian children lives together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Where the Lilies Bloom

1974

Beauty's Revenge poster
5.7

An obsessive small town beauty queen goes to great lengths to keep the love of her life from reconciling with his ex-girlfriend.

Beauty's Revenge

1995

Congratulations, It's a Boy! poster
6.5

A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

1971

Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside poster
7.0

Two New York City cops investigate a drug-smuggling ring that they believe is run by New York-based foreign diplomats.

Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside

1973

The Last Ninja poster
3.6

A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.

The Last Ninja

1983

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer poster
4.8

An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

1999

The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James poster
5.3

This movie looks at the last years (not days, as implied in the title) of famous outlaws, Frank and Jesse James. The film opens in 1877 with the brothers trying to settle down after 15 years of thievery. Frank is shown to be a book-loving and family-oriented man, while brother Jesse is a money-hungry womanizer. The movie follows their lives through Jesse's death at the hands of the "rotten little coward" Bob Ford and Frank's death in 1892.

The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James

1986

The Doomsday Flight poster
6.5

A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.

The Doomsday Flight

1966

The Intruders poster
5.0

The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.

The Intruders

1970

Birds of Prey poster
5.8

Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. Harry goes into pursuit which leads to an exciting conclusion.

Birds of Prey

1973

Bed of Lies poster
6.0

Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.

Bed of Lies

1992

Rage! poster
8.0

In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.

Rage!

1980

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers poster
7.0

A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-run by a drunk driver.

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

1983

Cindy poster
7.0

A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.

Cindy

1978

Submarine X-1 poster
6.2

After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.

Submarine X-1

1968