Direction: Gary Nelson

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


Get Smart (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buck Henry · Mel Brooks · Gary Nelson · Bruce Bilson

Cast Don Adams · Barbara Feldon · Edward Platt · Robert Karvelas

Plot TV Series (1965-1970). 5 Seasons. 138 Episodes. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created this show as a spoof of James Bond and the many TV imitators that followed in 007's...

6.9

9K votes

6.9

9K votes

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Lee Philips · Gary Nelson · John Erman

Cast Hope Lange · Edward Mulhare · Reta Shaw · Harlen Carraher

Plot Lovely young widow Carolyn Muir, her two young children, and the maid discover that the New England seaside house they've moved into is haunted by the former owner, an old...

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

McMillan & Wife (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction Leonard Stern · Robert Michael Lewis · Lou Antonio · James Sheldon

Cast Rock Hudson · Susan Saint James · Nancy Walker · John Schuck

Plot TV Series (1971-1977). 40 episodes. San Francisco attorney Stuart McMillan is named Commissioner of the San Francisco Police Department. With his pretty, but somewhat kooky, wife Sally, her hard-drinking housekeeper...

6.1

288 votes

6.1

288 votes

Early Edition (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Ian Abrams · Patrick Q. Page · Vik Rubenfeld · Gary Nelson

Cast Kyle Chandler · Shanesia Davis-Williams · Fisher Stevens · Kristy Swanson

Plot TV Series (1996-2000). 4 season. 90 episodes. The show dealt with the life of Gary Hobson (Kyle Chandler), a Chicago man (initially a stock broker, later the owner of McGinty's...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Get Smart, Again! (TV)

1989 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Don Adams · Barbara Feldon · Bernie Kopell · Dick Gautier

Plot Maxwell Smart is called back to duty as KAOS is back causing trouble again, this time with a 'weather machine'. Although instructed to keep his mission secret from his wife,...

5.8

128 votes

5.8

128 votes

Gilligan's Island (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · Leslie Goodwins · Gary Nelson · Jerry Hopper

Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer

Plot TV Series (1964-1967). 3 Seasons. 98 episodes. Gilligan's Island was an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as...

5.7

290 votes

5.7

290 votes

Murder in Three Acts (TV)

1986 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Peter Ustinov · Tony Curtis · Emma Samms · Jonathan Cecil

Plot Peter Ustinov portrays the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for the fifth time in this television movie. Poirot is enjoying a house party with his old friend Arthur Hastings at the...

5.5

166 votes

5.5

166 votes

The Black Hole

1979 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Maximilian Schell · Anthony Perkins · Robert Forster · Joseph Bottoms

Plot The crew of the spaceship Palamino stumbles across the ''lost'' ship U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard, they find the ship is manned...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Freaky Friday

1976 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Barbara Harris · Jodie Foster · John Astin · Patsy Kelly

Plot The original comedy classic that inspired Disney's hilarious hit remake with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Trading places was never so funny, and it could only happen on Friday...

5.4

241 votes

5.4

241 votes

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy · Barry Crane · John Florea · Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Richard Dean Anderson · Roger Wilson · Peter Horton · Drake Hogestyn

Plot TV Series (1982-1983). 22 episodes. The series told the adventures of a parentless family of rowdy brothers trying to run the family ranch in northern California. Into the chaos came...

4.9

141 votes

4.9

141 votes

Santee

1973 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Glenn Ford · Michael Burns · Dana Wynter · Jay Silverheels

Plot Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, only to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter...

4.3

35 votes

4.3

35 votes

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

1986 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Sharon Stone · James Earl Jones · Aileen Marson

Plot After surviving their expedition to King Solomon's Mines, Allan and Jesse have settled down in colonial Africa. They are engaged to be married and Jesse plans that they will travel...

4.2

2K votes

4.2

2K votes

The Lookalike (TV)

1990 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Melissa Gilbert · Diane Ladd · Frances Lee McCain · Jason Scott Lee

Plot A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter.

4.1

28 votes

4.1

28 votes

The Chicago Teddy Bears (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Murray Golden · Gary Nelson · Norman Tokar

Cast Dean Jones · John Banner · Art Metrano · Huntz Hall

Plot Comedic battle between an honest man and his mobster cousin over a Chicago speakeasy.

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Murder Me, Murder You (TV)

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Stacy Keach · Tanya Roberts · Don Stroud · Delta Burke

Plot Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

Not rated

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The Pride of Jesse Hallam (TV)

1981 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Johnny Cash · Brenda Vaccaro · Ben Marley · Eli Wallach

Plot Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Determined to support his family in the city, he decides he...

Not rated

Not rated

The Baileys of Balboa (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton · Bob Sweeney · Bruce Bilson · Gary Nelson

Cast Paul Ford · John Dehner · Sterling Holloway · Les Brown Jr.

Plot Episodes in the life of a beachcombing family.

Not rated

Not rated

Nanny and the Professor (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction A.J. Carothers · Thomas L. Miller · Gary Nelson · Ralph Senensky

Cast Juliet Mills · Richard Long · Kim Richards · David Doremus

Plot TV Series (1970-1971). 3 seasons. 54 episodes. Ever-cheerful Nanny helps the Everett family with her subtly magical abilities, such as seemingly reading minds, seeing the future or making fortunate coincidences...

Not rated

Not rated

Good Morning, World (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson · Danny Dayton · Carl Reiner · George Tyne

Cast Joby Baker · Ronnie Schell · Goldie Hawn · Billy De Wolfe

Plot David Lewis and Larry Clarke are early morning disc jockeys in Los Angeles. Dave is happily married, while Larry thinks of himself as a ladies' man and "swinger." Billy deWolfe's...

Not rated

Not rated

Stick with Me, Kid (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christian I. Nyby II · Gary Nelson

Cast John Gielgud · Leigh Lawson · Kristopher Milnes · Che Grant

Plot Ripley Hillard, a child prodigy for his detective skills, is determined to solve the case of the theft of a diamond in the local museum. To do this, he seeks...

Not rated

Not rated