Direction: Daryl Duke

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


The Silent Partner

1978 · Movie · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Elliott Gould · Christopher Plummer · Susannah York · Céline Lomez

Plot A bank teller (Elliot Gould) is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

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

Columbo: Caution, Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (TV)

1991 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Peter Falk · George Hamilton · Peter Haskell · Penny Johnson

Plot Columbo investigates a self-proclaimed security expert turned crime show host for the murder of a rival with incriminating evidence of pornography.

6.3

227 votes

6.3

227 votes

Columbo: Columbo Cries Wolf (TV)

1990 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Peter Falk · Ian Buchanan · Rebecca Staab · Alan Scarfe

Plot When the business-savvy publisher of a "Playboy"-type men's magazine wants to sell her stock to a Rupert Murdoch-like media tycoon, she apparently disappears on a London-bound flight.

6.3

207 votes

6.3

207 votes

The Thorn Birds (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Series · 477 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Rachel Ward · Barbara Stanwyck · Christopher Plummer

Plot Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as an ambitious Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart, whose life in Australia between 1920 and 1962...

5.7

3K votes

5.7

3K votes

Tai-Pan

1986 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Bryan Brown · Joan Chen · John Stanton · Tim Guinee

Plot Tai-Pan is Chinese for "supreme leader". This is the man with real power to his hands. And such a Tai-Pan is Dirk Struan who is obsessed by his plan to...

4.5

69 votes

4.5

69 votes

The Bold Ones: The Senator (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke · Robert Day · John Badham

Cast Hal Holbrook · Sharon Acker · Cindy Eilbacher · Michael Tolan

Plot TV Series (1970-1971). 8 Episodes. Hays Stowe is a new senator who comes to Washington DC with his wife Erin and daughter Norma. He arrives full of optimism that being...

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Shadow of the Hawk

1987 · Movie · 109 min. · South Korea

Direction George McCowan · Daryl Duke

Cast Jan-Michael Vincent · Marilyn Hassett · Chief Dan George · Pia Shandel

Plot The Westernized grandson of a shaman returns to the wilderness to learn more about his Native American heritage. When he encounters powerful evil spirits, he enlists the aid of his...

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name (TV)

1973 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Tom Courtenay · Dean Jagger · Paul Stanley · Marianne Jones

Plot A young priest is sent by his bishop deep into the seacoast wilds of British Columbia to a parish of Kwakiutl Native Americans called Kingcome. The Tsawataineuk live in an...

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Payday

1973 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Rip Torn · Ahna Capri · Elayne Heilviel · Michael C. Gwynne

Plot A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates...

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Griffin and Phoenix (TV)

1976 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Peter Falk · Jill Clayburgh · John Lehne · Dorothy Tristan

Plot Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has...

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Direction Rod Serling · Daryl Duke · Don Taylor

Cast William Windom · Diane Baker · John Randolph · Martine Beswick

Plot After years of competition in business, lonely widower Randy Lane recalls better times when he and his wife used to visit a local bar. / Crippled Marius Davis uses astral...

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Hard Feelings

1982 · Movie · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Carl Marotte · Charlayne Woodard · Grand L. Bush · Vincent Bufano

Plot It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in...

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The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jud Taylor · Robert E. Collins · Jeffrey Hayden · Leonard Horn

Cast David Hartman · E.G. Marshall · John Saxon · Robert Walden

Plot Dr. Benjamin Craig was an extremely successful neurosurgeon who had become so well-known and well-renowned in his field that he was able to open his own very exclusive clinic called...

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Fatal Memories (TV)

1992 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Shelley Long · Helen Shaver · David McIlwraith · Sara Botsford

Plot Fact based story about a woman who after 20 years starts having memories of her own molestation by her father and the murder of one of her childhood playmates by...

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Ghost Story (Circle of Fear) (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall · Daryl Duke · Paul Stanley · Robert Day

Cast Sebastian Cabot · Sheila Larken · Jodie Foster · Martin Sheen

Plot TV Series (1972-1973). 23 episodes. An anthology of suspense dramas concentrating on individuals confronted with supernatural occurrences. On January 1973, beginning with the 14th episode, the series title changed from...

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The Psychiatrist (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke · Steven Spielberg · Jeff Corey · Jerrold Freedman

Cast Roy Thinnes · Luther Adler · Pete Duel · John Rubinstein

Plot Dr. James Whitman is a psychiatrist at a major LA facility who shakes things up with newer techniques, like group therapy. Dr. Altman is his sometime mentor who helps him...

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