Direction: Barry Shear

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Barry Shear. 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

6.6

70 votes

Night Gallery (TV)

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Barry Shear · Steven Spielberg

Cast Joan Crawford · Ossie Davis · Richard Kiley · Roddy McDowall

Plot In the pilot of the television series "Night Gallery" (1970), Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first...

6.5

203 votes

6.5

203 votes

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Sam Rolfe · E. Darrell Hallenbeck · Joseph Sargent · John Brahm

Cast Robert Vaughn · David McCallum · Leo G. Carroll · Barbara Moore

Plot TV Serie (1964-1968). 4 Seasons. 105 episodes. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kullyakin are the two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, who fight evil (primarily an organization...

6.5

197 votes

6.5

197 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

Across 110th Street

1972 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear

Cast Anthony Quinn · Yaphet Kotto · Anthony Franciosa · Paul Benjamin

Plot Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

6.2

571 votes

6.2

571 votes

Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Glen A. Larson · Bruce Bilson · Jeffrey Hayden · Alexander Singer

Cast Ben Murphy · Pete Duel · Dennis Fimple · Ford Rainey

Plot TV Series (1971-1973). Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks",...

6.1

33 votes

6.1

33 votes

Police Woman (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert E. Collins · Alvin Ganzer · John Newland · Barry Shear

Cast Angie Dickinson · Earl Holliman · Charles Dierkop · Ed Bernard

Plot TV Series (1974-1978). 4 temporadas. 91 episodes. The show revolves around Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. William...

5.8

120 votes

5.8

120 votes

Tarzan (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States

5.7

92 votes

5.7

92 votes

McCloud (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 120 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Kessler · Russ Mayberry · Lou Antonio · E.W. Swackhamer

Cast Dennis Weaver · J.D. Cannon · Terry Carter · Ken Lynch

Plot TV Series (1970-1977). Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of Taos, N.M. is assigned to the 21st Precinct of the NYPD to study local police methods, and where he can stay close...

5.6

399 votes

5.6

399 votes

Daniel Boone (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

5.6

219 votes

5.6

219 votes

Wild in the Streets

1968 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear

Cast Shelley Winters · Christopher Jones · Diane Varsi · Hal Holbrook

Plot Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later...

5.5

64 votes

5.5

64 votes

The Deadly Trackers

1973 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear · Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Harris · Rod Taylor · Al Lettieri · Neville Brand

Plot Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood...

5.4

195 votes

5.4

195 votes

The Todd Killings

1971 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear

Cast Robert F. Lyons · Richard Thomas · Belinda Montgomery · Sherry Miles

Plot Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into...

4.1

26 votes

4.1

26 votes

Strike Force (TV)

1975 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear

Cast Cliff Gorman · Don Blakely · Richard Gere · Ed Grover

Plot A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

3.9

21 votes

3.9

21 votes

Power (TV)

1980 · Movie · 240 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear · Virgil W. Vogel

Cast Joe Don Baker · Karen Black · David Groh · Howard Da Silva

Plot Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself...

Not rated

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Short Walk to Daylight (TV)

1972 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear

Cast James Brolin · Don Mitchell · James McEachin · Abbey Lincoln

Plot Eight people are trapped in a New York subway after an earthquake, and try to find their way out.

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Not rated

City of Angels (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · Robert Douglas · Douglas Heyes · Hy Averback

Cast Wayne Rogers · Pepper Martin · Meredith Baxter · Steve Kanaly

Plot TV Series (1976-). 13 episodes. Wayne Rogers plays a determined but unethical private detective, Jake Axminster, who looks out for himself -and somewhat less aggressively for his clients- amid the...

Not rated

Not rated

Startime (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer · Alfred Hitchcock · Greg Garrison · Gordon Rigsby

Cast Dean Martin · Marian Anderson · Alice Backes · Jerry Lewis

Plot TV Series (1959-1960). 1 season. 33 episodes. An anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety broadcast in color.

Not rated

Not rated