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