Direction: Bruce Kessler
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Bruce Kessler. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
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
It Takes a Thief (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 51 min. · United States
Direction Roland Kibbee · Don Weis · Jack Arnold · Michael Caffey
Cast Robert Wagner · Malachi Throne · Edward Binns · Fred Astaire
6.6
70 votes
6.6
70 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
The Commish (TV Series)
1991 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Miles Watkins · Rachel Feldman · Barbara Amato · Richard Compton
Cast Michael Chiklis · Kaj-Erik Eriksen · Theresa Saldana · Melinda McGraw
Plot Tony Scali is the police commissioner in a small town, where solutions to difficult situations often require considerable creativity. Tony's easygoing manner and clever intellect are much more useful to...
6.3
26 votes
6.3
26 votes
The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)
1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Arnold Laven · Ivan Dixon · Rod Holcomb
Cast William Katt · Robert Culp · Connie Sellecca · Michael Paré
Plot TV Series (1981-1983). 3 Seasons. 44 Episodes. A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close encounter in the Southern California...
6.3
6K votes
6.3
6K votes
The A-Team (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael O'Herlihy · Dennis Donnelly
Cast George Peppard · Mr. T · Dwight Schultz · Dirk Benedict
Plot TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 98 Episodes. Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.
6.0
29K votes
6.0
29K votes
Marcus Welby, M.D (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Victor · Marc Daniels · Leo Penn · Russ Mayberry
Cast Robert Young · James Brolin · Elena Verdugo · Pamela Hensley
Plot (TV Series). 1969-1976. 7 Seasons. 169 Episodes. The show is about doctors Marcus Welby, a general practitioner and Steven Kiley, Welby's young assistant. The two try to treat people as...
6.0
118 votes
6.0
118 votes
The Fall Guy (TV Series)
1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Glen A. Larson · Daniel Haller · Michael Lange · Hollingsworth Morse
Cast Lee Majors · Heather Thomas · Douglas Barr · Markie Post
Plot TV Series (1981-1986). The adventures of a film stunt performer who moonlights as a bounty hunter when movie work is slow.
5.9
54 votes
5.9
54 votes
Adam-12 (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Jack Webb · Robert A. Cinader · Dennis Donnelly · Phil Rawlins
Cast Martin Milner · Kent McCord · William Boyett · Fred Stromsoe
5.8
35 votes
5.8
35 votes
MacGyver (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction Lee David Zlotoff · Charles Correll · William Gereghty · Michael Vejar
Cast Richard Dean Anderson · Dana Elcar · Bruce McGill · Robin Mossley
Plot TV Series (1985-1992). 7 Seasons. 139 Episodes. Angus Macgyver is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on...
5.8
18K votes
5.8
18K votes
Riptide (TV Series)
1984 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael Lange · Bob Bralver
Cast Perry King · Joe Penny · Thom Bray · Jack Ging
Plot Three vietnam veterans (Nick Ryder, Cody Allen and Murray Bozinsky) now work as private eyes in sunny southern California. Nick and Cody are the muscles and Murray is a computer...
5.8
25 votes
5.8
25 votes
I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Sheldon · Hal Cooper · Claudio Guzmán · Gene Nelson
Cast Barbara Eden · Larry Hagman · Bill Daily · Hayden Rorke
Plot Captain Tony Nelson is an astronaut. While on a mission, he discovered a mysterious bottle. Opening it, he released Jeannie (a Genie) who was so overjoyed at her release she...
5.8
398 votes
5.8
398 votes
Baretta (TV Series)
1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Don Medford · Bernard L. Kowalski · Robert Douglas
Cast Robert Blake · Tom Ewell · Michel D. Roberts · Ed Grover
Plot Streetwise, undercover, unconventional cop Baretta solves crimes, often using disguises, with the help of stoolie Rooster and pet cockatoo Fred.
5.8
247 votes
5.8
247 votes
The Young Riders (TV Series)
1989 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ed Spielman · Virgil W. Vogel · James Keach · Lee H. Katzin
Cast Stephen Baldwin · Josh Brolin · Ty Miller · Gregg Rainwater
Plot TV Series (1989-1992). 3 Seasons. 68 Episodes. Set just before the American Civil War, this series presented a highly fictionalized account of the heyday of the Pony Express. Its focus...
5.7
832 votes
5.7
832 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
The Monkees (TV Series)
1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction James Frawley · Bob Rafelson · Alexander Singer · Bruce Kessler
Cast Davy Jones · Micky Dolenz · Peter Tork · Michael Nesmith
Plot Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in circa-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of...
5.4
56 votes
5.4
56 votes
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Glen A. Larson · James Sheldon · Dick Harwood · Sidney Hayers
Cast Claude Akins · Brian Kerwin · Mills Watson · Leann Hunley
Plot Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of "El camionero y su mono" (1979), as B.J.'s occasional nemesis. He now...
5.1
280 votes
5.1
280 votes
B.J. and the Bear (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Christian I. Nyby II · Bruce Bilson · Charles R. Rondeau · Gil Bettman
Cast Greg Evigan · Linda McCullough · Eric Server · Candi Brough
Plot TV Serie (1979-1981). B.J. McCay was a good-looking young trucker who traveled around the country in his big red & white rig, with a single companion - his pet chimp,...
4.5
104 votes
4.5
104 votes
Simon, King of the Witches
1971 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Bruce Kessler
Cast Allyson Ames · Sharon Berryhill · Jerry Brooke · Norman Burton
Plot Simon, a young man with magic power, invokes the help of the evil forces in order to take revenge of a man who cheated him with a bad cheque.
4.5
35 votes
4.5
35 votes
Cruise Into Terror (TV)
1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Bruce Kessler
Cast Dirk Benedict · John Forsythe · Frank Converse · Lynda Day George
4.0
28 votes
4.0
28 votes