Directing

Walter Doniger

Born — Died

1917-07-01 — 2011-11-24

Place of birth

New York City, New York, United States

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

Walter Doniger was an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer known for his work in action dramas and television series. A graduate of Harvard Business School, he began his career as a screenwriter in the early 1940s with Universal Pictures. During World War II, Doniger collaborated on training films for the U.S. Army, which influenced his later work. He directed films such as Cease Fire! (1953), one of the first 3-D war films, and Safe at Home! (1962), featuring baseball legends Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Transitioning to television, Doniger directed episodes of popular series including Cheyenne, Maverick, and Peyton Place, where he directed 64 episodes. His dy…

Known for

Stone Cold poster
6.2

Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff into an undercover operation that entails infiltrating The Brotherhood – a powerful Mississippi biker gang linked in the murder of government officials as well as dealing drugs with the mafia.

Stone Cold

1991

The Guns of Fort Petticoat poster
6.3

Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

1957

Along the Great Divide poster
7.4

US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?

Along the Great Divide

1951

Rope of Sand poster
5.8

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

Rope of Sand

1949

Duffy of San Quentin poster
6.2

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Duffy of San Quentin

1954

Alaska Seas poster
6.7

A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business.

Alaska Seas

1954

Behind the camera

Stone Cold poster
6.2

Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff into an undercover operation that entails infiltrating The Brotherhood – a powerful Mississippi biker gang linked in the murder of government officials as well as dealing drugs with the mafia.

Stone Cold

1991

The Guns of Fort Petticoat poster
6.3

Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

1957

Along the Great Divide poster
7.4

US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?

Along the Great Divide

1951

Rope of Sand poster
5.8

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

Rope of Sand

1949

Duffy of San Quentin poster
6.2

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Duffy of San Quentin

1954

Duffy of San Quentin poster
6.2

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Duffy of San Quentin

1954

Duffy of San Quentin poster
6.2

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Duffy of San Quentin

1954

Alaska Seas poster
6.7

A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business.

Alaska Seas

1954

Hold Back the Night poster
6.4

A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war.

Hold Back the Night

1956

Safe at Home! poster
5.0

A young boy brags to his friends that he knows baseball Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, and must learn his lesson when he travels to the Yankees' spring training camp to prove his non-existent friendship.

Safe at Home!

1962

Mad Bull poster
8.0

An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.

Mad Bull

1977

Kentucky Woman poster
6.5

A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.

Kentucky Woman

1983

Kentucky Woman poster
6.5

A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.

Kentucky Woman

1983

Kentucky Woman poster
6.5

A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.

Kentucky Woman

1983

House of Women poster
5.4

An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.

House of Women

1962

The Steel Cage poster
7.0

Drama set in San Quentin prison.

The Steel Cage

1954

Mob Town poster
8.0

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

Mob Town

1941

The Adventure of the Speckled Band poster
NR

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

1949

Unwed Mother poster
5.2

A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets pregnant and he's on his way to jail.

Unwed Mother

1958

The Steel Jungle poster
5.6

The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.

The Steel Jungle

1956

The Steel Jungle poster
5.6

The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.

The Steel Jungle

1956

Danger in the Pacific poster
7.0

Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent Leo Marzeli in search of rare minerals. They soon run afoul of crooked trader Tagani, who's been busily stockpiling weapons in the hills on behalf of his Nazi partners.

Danger in the Pacific

1942

Cease Fire! poster
5.6

A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with reenactments in which real veterans of the Korean War portray members of a platoon sent out on a reconnaissance mission near the end of the conflict. Though peace is imminent, violence unexpectedly erupts. A day that begins with the calm and mundane is transformed into a heated battle that typifies the cruel and unpredictable nature of war.

Cease Fire!

1953

Desperate Search poster
6.0

A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.

Desperate Search

1952