Direction: Don Taylor

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


Night Gallery (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price

Plot Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery...

6.9

166 votes

6.9

166 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Deadly (TV)

1957 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

6.8

79 votes

6.8

79 votes

The Wild Wild West (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Garrison · Irving J. Moore · Robert Sparr · Alan Crosland Jr.

Cast Robert Conrad · Ross Martin · Dick Cangey · Red West

Plot TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 104 Episodes. James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight...

6.4

463 votes

6.4

463 votes

The Final Countdown

1980 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Kirk Douglas · Martin Sheen · Katharine Ross · James Farentino

Plot The US aircraft carrier Nimitz under Captain Matthew Yelland departs from Pearl Harbor on manoeuvres. But then the Nimitz is caught in a mysterious storm that appears out of nowhere...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

The Rifleman (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis · Arnold Laven · Arthur H. Nadel · Gene Nelson

Cast Chuck Connors · Johnny Crawford · Paul Fix · Bill Quinn

Plot The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized Winchester rifle.

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Damien: Omen II

1978 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor · Mike Hodges

Cast William Holden · Lee Grant · Jonathan Scott Taylor · Robert Foxworth

Plot It is seven years later after Damien Thorn’s father tried to kill him. He is now a teenager, living in Chicago with his uncle Richard, the head of the multi-national...

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Tom Sawyer

1973 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Johnny Whitaker · Celeste Holm · Warren Oates · Jeff East

Plot Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

5.8

477 votes

5.8

477 votes

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1977 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Burt Lancaster · Michael York · Nigel Davenport · Barbara Carrera

Plot 1912. After their ship is wrecked at sea, two sailors are washed up on a tropical island. Creatures in the forest kill one, but the other, Andrew Braddock, is found...

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

The 5-Man Army

1969 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Don Taylor · Italo Zingarelli

Cast Bud Spencer · Peter Graves · James Daly · Nino Castelnuovo

Plot Set during the Mexican Revolution, a man known only as "The Dutchman" has a plan, and brings in four of his old acquaintences, including an old army buddy and a...

5.4

188 votes

5.4

188 votes

Escape From The Planet of The Apes

1971 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Bradford Dillman · Ricardo Montalban

Plot The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to...

5.4

4K votes

5.4

4K votes

Dennis the Menace (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton · William D. Russell · Don Taylor · Jeffrey Hayden

Cast Jay North · Herbert Anderson · Gloria Henry · Bill Booth

Plot TV Series (1959-1963) 146 episodes. The live-action adaptation of the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name. Dennis Mitchell was a loveable young boy, dressed in overalls and carrying...

4.9

55 votes

4.9

55 votes

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

1976 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Lee Marvin · Oliver Reed · Robert Culp · Elizabeth Ashley

Plot Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years...

4.6

120 votes

4.6

120 votes

Wild Women (TV)

1970 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Hugh O´Brian · Anne Francis · Marilyn Maxwell · Marie Windsor

Plot Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840.

4.2

38 votes

4.2

38 votes

Listen to Your Heart (TV)

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Kate Jackson · Tim Matheson · Cassie Yates · George Coe

Plot This romantic melodrama features a book editor falling in love with his art director.

Not rated

Not rated

Ghost of a Chance (TV)

1987 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Redd Foxx · Dick Van Dyke · Brynn Thayer · Richard Romanus

Plot A piano player is accidentally shot and killed by a policeman. He is sent back to earth to get the cop to help his son audition for a talent search,...

Not rated

Not rated

Dead of Night (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

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Not rated

Alfred Hitchcock presents: Total Loss (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Nancy Olson · Ralph Meeker · Dave Willock · Barbara Lord

Plot Jan Manning is having serious financial problems. She runs a dress shop but sales are down and she doesn't have her late husband's knack at purchasing, the end result being...

Not rated

Not rated

Beasts (TV Miniseries)

1976 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Taylor · Richard Bramall · Don Leaver · Donald McWhinnie

Cast Michael Kitchen · Bernard Horsfall · Patrick Magee · Anthony Bate

Plot An anthology series concerning bestial horror created by Nigel Kneale. A clumsy shopgirl becomes convinced that there is something sinister living behind the walls of the shop where she works....

Not rated

Not rated

Alcoa Theatre (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 24 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey · Alvin Ganzer · Don McDougall · Robert Ellis Miller

Cast Jack Lemmon · David Niven · Robert Ryan · Charles Boyer

Plot When The Alcoa Hour dramatic anthology series moved from Sunday night to Monday, both the name and the format were changed. Instead of having a completely different cast for each...

Not rated

Not rated

Everything's Ducky

1961 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Mickey Rooney · Buddy Hackett · Jackie Cooper · Joanie Sommers

Plot Two sailors sneak a talking duck on board their ship. Complications ensue.

Not rated

Not rated