Cinematography: Bud Thackery

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Bud Thackery. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Thriller (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 49 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · John Brahm · Ida Lupino

Cast Boris Karloff · Richard Peel · Henry Daniell · David Frankham

Plot Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on...

7.2

23 votes

7.2

23 votes

Mike Hammer (TV Series)

1956 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Richard Irving · William Witney · John English

Cast Darren McGavin · Bart Burns · Vito Scotti · Johnny Seven

Plot TV Series (1956-1959) 78 episodes. The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm...

6.5

28 votes

6.5

28 votes

6.4

66 votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Plot Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

Coogan's Bluff

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee J. Cobb · Susan Clark · Tisha Sterling

Plot The film opens with Arizona deputy Walt Coogan (Eastwood) on the trail of an Indian fugitive; on catching him, he handcuffs him outside the house of a married woman with...

5.9

3K votes

5.9

3K votes

Beau Geste

1966 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Heyes

Cast Guy Stockwell · Doug McClure · Leslie Nielsen · Telly Savalas

Plot Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from...

5.6

177 votes

5.6

177 votes

Stranger on the Run (TV)

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Henry Fonda · Anne Baxter · Michael Parks · Dan Duryea

Plot A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert, then he...

5.5

128 votes

5.5

128 votes

The Hanged Man (TV)

1964 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Robert Culp · Edmond O'Brien · Vera Miles · Norman Fell

Plot A gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics.

5.5

27 votes

5.5

27 votes

The Hell with Heroes

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Rod Taylor · Claudia Cardinale · Harry Guardino · Kevin McCarthy

Plot Two former World War II pilots take to running an air-freight company in South Africa after the war. They get mixed up with Lee Harris (Harry Guardino), the dangerous black-market...

5.2

68 votes

5.2

68 votes

Santa Fe Passage

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast John Payne · Faith Domergue · Rod Cameron · Slim Pickens

Plot Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank, whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and...

5.1

75 votes

5.1

75 votes

Gunfight at Black Horse Canyon (TV)

1961 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Dale Robertson · Jack Ging · William Demarest · George Kennedy

Plot Bounty hunters hired by an ex-con focus on the Wells Fargo agent who placed the ex-con in prison.

4.9

31 votes

4.9

31 votes

The Raiders

1963 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast Brian Keith · Robert Culp · Judi Meredith · Jim McMullan

Plot When a group of Texans trying to drive their cattle to a Kansas rail head are bushwacked, they get Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane to aid...

4.9

37 votes

4.9

37 votes

The Plainsman

1966 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich

Cast Don Murray · Guy Stockwell · Abby Dalton · Leslie Nielsen

Plot Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.

4.7

71 votes

4.7

71 votes

Winchester 73 (TV)

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast Tom Tryon · John Saxon · Dan Duryea · John Drew Barrymore

Plot Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating...

4.0

30 votes

4.0

30 votes

The Vampire's Ghost

1945 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast John Abbott · Charles Gordon · Peggy Stewart · Grant Withers

Plot In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life"...

Not rated

Not rated

Accused of Murder

1956 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast David Brian · Vera Ralston · Sidney Blackmer · Virginia Grey

Plot When gangland lawyer Frank Hobart is murdered there are two suspects, Ilona Vanve , beautiful nightclub singer, and a hood named Stan , who has been hired by underworld boss...

Not rated

Not rated

San Antone

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Rod Cameron · Arleen Whelan · Forrest Tucker · Katy Jurado

Plot After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico--now occupied by the French, who are battling Mexican revolutionaries led by Benito Juarez--in...

Not rated

Not rated

Wide Country (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Don Weis · John Brahm · William Witney

Cast Earl Holliman · Andrew Prine · Slim Pickens · Ray Teal

Plot Mitch Guthrie is a champion bronco rider in the rodeo who tries to keep his kid brother, Andy, from pursuing the same life.

Not rated

Not rated

Stranger at My Door

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Macdonald Carey · Patricia Medina · Skip Homeier · Stephen Wootton

Plot Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby...

Not rated

Not rated

Johnny Midnight (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Liam O'Brien · John English · David Orrick McDearmon · Robert Stevens

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Yuki Shimoda · Arthur Batanides · Barney Phillips

Plot 39 Episodes. Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January to December 1960. The series stars Edmond O'Brien as the title character.

Not rated

Not rated