Direction: Robert Butler

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Butler. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Disneyland (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 120 min. · United States

Direction Hamilton Luske · Norman Tokar · James Neilson · Wilfred Jackson

Cast Walt Disney · Paul Frees · Clarence Nash · Roger Mobley

Plot The Walt Disney anthology television series is a television series that has been produced by the Walt Disney Company under several different titles since 1954. These include Disneyland (1954–1958), Walt...

7.3

61 votes

7.3

61 votes

Hill Street Blues (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Steven Bochco · Michael Kozoll · Gregory Hoblit · Christian I. Nyby II

Cast Daniel J. Travanti · Michael Conrad · Michael Warren · Bruce Weitz

Plot TV Series (1981-1987). 7 Seasons. 146 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct in New York. The original "ensemble drama," this is the...

7.2

18K votes

7.2

18K votes

The Fugitive (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins · Jerry Hopper · Walter Grauman · Alexander Singer

Cast David Janssen · Barry Morse · William Conrad · Paul Birch

Plot TV Series (1963-1967). 4 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Dr. Richard Kimble, an Indiana pediatrician, is accused, arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. Kimble claims he was on...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Untouchables (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Walter Grauman · Stuart Rosenberg · Paul Wendkos · John Peyser

Cast Robert Stack · Nicholas Georgiade · Abel Fernandez · Paul Picerni

Plot TV Series (1959-1963). 4 Seasons. 119 Episodes. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

7.0

615 votes

7.0

615 votes

Out on a Limb (TV Miniseries)

1987 · Series · 235 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Charles Dance · John Heard · Anne Jackson

Plot Shirley MacLaine plays herself in this TV mini-series based on her autobiographical best-seller which delves into her new age beliefs and its effects on her personal and public lives. John...

6.9

43 votes

6.9

43 votes

Mission: Impossible (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Kessler · Reza Badiyi · Barry Crane · Paul Krasny

Cast Greg Morris · Peter Lupus · Peter Graves · Barbara Bain

Plot TV Series (1966-1973). 7 Seasons. 171 Episodes. An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. The...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Hogan's Heroes (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Fein · Albert S. Ruddy Production · Gene Reynolds · Edward H. Feldman

Cast Bob Crane · Werner Klemperer · John Banner · Robert Clary

Plot TV Series (1965-1971). Colonel Hogan leads a ragtag band of POW's caught behind German lines. The bumbling Germans give Hogan and his crew plenty of opportunities to sabotage their war...

6.7

57 votes

6.7

57 votes

Columbo: Double Shock (TV)

1973 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Peter Falk · Martin Landau · Jeanette Nolan · Tim O'Connor

Plot A smarmy TV chef and his identical twin brother, a rigidly proper banker, are suspects in the electrocution of their rich uncle.

6.6

332 votes

6.6

332 votes

Star Trek: The Cage - Pilot Episode (TV)

1988 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Susan Oliver · Leonard Nimoy · Majel Barrett

Plot Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

6.4

162 votes

6.4

162 votes

Columbo: Publish or Perish (TV)

1974 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Peter Falk · Jack Cassidy · Mickey Spillane · Mariette Hartley

Plot A publisher hires a bomb enthusiast to murder a bestselling author of sex novels. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6.4

257 votes

6.4

257 votes

The Twilight Zone: Caesar and Me (TV)

1964 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Jackie Cooper · Morgan Brittany · Sarah Selby · Don Gazzaniga

Plot When Irish ventriloquist Jonathan West cannot find any work, his dummy Caesar suggests that he turn to robbery.

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 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

Star Trek (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 47 min. · United States

Direction Gene Roddenberry · Marc Daniels · Joseph Pevney · Vincent McEveety

Cast William Shatner · Leonard Nimoy · DeForest Kelley · Grace Lee Whitney

Plot TV Series (1966-1969). 3 Seasons. 80 Episodes. Capt. Kirk and the crew of the Starship U.S.S. Enterprise explore space and defend the United Federation of Planets. It is the 23rd...

6.3

16K votes

6.3

16K votes

The Twilight Zone: The Encounter (TV)

1964 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Neville Brand · George Takei

Plot A man, Fenton, is cleaning out his attic when a Japanese gardener, Arthur Takamori, stops by asking if he would like his grass cut. Fenton invites him up for a...

6.3

49 votes

6.3

49 votes

Remington Steele (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gleason · Robert Butler · Seymour Robbie · Don Weis

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Stephanie Zimbalist · Doris Roberts · James Read

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 5 Seasons. 94 Episodes. When Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), a beautiful young private detective begins her own business (Laura Holt investigations), she soon discovers that no one...

6.3

20K votes

6.3

20K votes

Kung Fu (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ed Spielman · Richard Lang · Jerry Thorpe · Marc Daniels

Cast David Carradine · Keye Luke · Radames Pera · Philip Ahn

Plot TV Series (1972-1975). 3 Seasons. 63 Episodes. He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine, schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin...

6.2

8K votes

6.2

8K votes

The Blue Knight (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harvey S. Laidman · Robert Butler · J. Lee Thompson · Ralph Senensky

Cast George Kennedy · John Steadman · Barbara Rhoades · Lee Weaver

Plot TV Series (1975-1976). 2 seasons. 25 episodes. The exploits of Los Angeles beat cop Bumper Morgan.

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

The Waltons (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Earl Hamner Jr. · Harry Harris · Philip Leacock · Ralph Waite

Cast Jon Walmsley · Eric Scott · Kami Cotler · Earl Hamner Jr.

Plot TV Series (1971-1981). 9 seasons. 213 episodes. In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on...

5.7

87 votes

5.7

87 votes

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

1972 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Kurt Russell · Cesar Romero · Joe Flynn · Jim Backus

Plot Dexter (Kurt Russell) has an idea for a formula to render things invisible. Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn) is less than impressed and sets his hopes for winning a lucrative science...

5.7

188 votes

5.7

188 votes

Creeped Out (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bede Blake · Robert Butler · Steve Hughes · Bruce McDonald

Cast Aurora Aksnes · William Romain · Jaiden Cannatelli · Kyle Harrison Breitkopf

Plot TV Series (2017-2019). 2 Seasons. 23 Episodes. Each episode is a different story set in a different place and time, with different characters exploring their way through the unexplained.

5.2

203 votes

5.2

203 votes