Direction: James Frawley

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


Columbo: Try and Catch Me (TV)

1977 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Ruth Gordon · Mariette Hartley · G.D. Spradlin

Plot An aging but successful and wealthy crime fiction writer blames her nephew for the death of her niece. One night she invites her nephew up to the house to sign...

6.7

291 votes

6.7

291 votes

Columbo: How to Dial a Murder (TV)

1978 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Nicol Williamson · Kim Cattrall · Joel Fabiani

Plot Dr. Eric Mason is a self-controlled man and he teaches how to get control over one's own life. His wife died suddenly because of an inexplicable accident and his best...

6.7

291 votes

6.7

291 votes

Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Shonda Rhimes · Rob Corn · Chandra Wilson · Tony Phelan

Cast Ellen Pompeo · Patrick Dempsey · Katherine Heigl · Sandra Oh

Plot TV Series (2005-Present Day). 17 Seasons. Meet Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible. Meredith...

6.6

30K votes

6.6

30K votes

Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder (TV)

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Trish Van Devere · Laurence Luckinbill · James McEachin

Plot An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover (who is also her boss); Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6.5

271 votes

6.5

271 votes

Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove

Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials,...

6.4

119 votes

6.4

119 votes

Columbo: Murder, a Self Portrait (TV)

1989 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Patrick Bauchau · Fionnula Flanagan · Shera Danese

Plot Columbo investigates the apparent drowning of a famous painters first wife.

6.4

210 votes

6.4

210 votes

Columbo: Murder, Smoke and Shadows (TV)

1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Fisher Stevens · Molly Hagan · Nan Martin

Plot An egocentric wunderkind director murders a childhood friend who threatens to expose his negligent complicity in the death of his sister years earlier.

6.4

231 votes

6.4

231 votes

Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective (TV)

1989 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Lindsay Crouse · Julie Montgomery · Peter Jurasik

Plot When a successful sex therapist with a best selling book and a hit TV show is crushed to learn her business partner/lover is cheating on her, she plots appropriate revenge.

6.3

204 votes

6.3

204 votes

Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Donald P. Bellisario · Virgil W. Vogel · James Frawley · Harvey S. Laidman

Cast Stephen Collins · Jeff MacKay · John Calvin · Marta DuBois

Plot TV Series (1982). 22 episodes. Jake Cutter is a pilot and adventurer in Boragora, the port in the Marivella Islands in 1938. He flies his Grumman Goose amphibian on inter-island...

6.3

401 votes

6.3

401 votes

American Gothic (TV Series)

1995 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Shaun Cassidy · Michael Nankin · James Frawley · Michael Lange

Cast Gary Cole · Lucas Black · Paige Turco · Brenda Bakke

Plot The story takes place in the fictional town of Trinity, South Carolina, and revolves around Caleb Temple (Lucas Black) and the town's corrupt sheriff, Lucas Buck (Gary Cole). Though appearing...

6.3

64 votes

6.3

64 votes

Law & Order (TV Series)

1990 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Dick Wolf · Constantine Makris · Jace Alexander · Edwin Sherin

Cast Jerry Orbach · Paul Sorvino · Dennis Farina · S. Epatha Merkerson

Plot TV Series (1990-2010). 20 Seasons. 456 Episodes. In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet forever intertwined forces. There's the police...

6.2

9K votes

6.2

9K votes

Ally McBeal (TV Series)

1997 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction David E. Kelley · Mel Damski · Jonathan Pontell · Bill D'Elia

Cast Calista Flockhart · Greg Germann · Jane Krakowski · Peter MacNicol

Plot TV Series (1997-2002). 5 Season. 112 Episodes. Ally McBeal is a single young lawyer looking for love and fullfillment in life. She works for a Boston Law firm with her...

6.0

52K votes

6.0

52K votes

Hansel and Gretel (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)

1983 · Movie · 52 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Rick Schroder · Bridgette Andersen · Paul Dooley · Joan Collins

Plot If taking candy from strangers is a bad idea, then eating candy houses is a definite no-no! In this re-telling of the tale by the Brothers Grimm, Hansel (NYPD Blue's...

6.0

232 votes

6.0

232 votes

Picket Fences (TV Series)

1992 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David E. Kelley · Michael Pressman · Mel Damski · Michael Schultz

Cast Tom Skerritt · Kathy Baker · Holly Marie Combs · Justin Shenkarow

Plot TV Series (1992-1996). 4 Seasons. Picket Fences deals with life in a small town in this case the town of Rome, Wisconsin and centres around the Brock Family. Jimmy Brock...

6.0

659 votes

6.0

659 votes

Chicago Hope (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction David E. Kelley · Bill D'Elia · Michael Dinner · Lou Antonio

Cast Adam Arkin · Hector Elizondo · Christine Lahti · Mark Harmon

Plot TV Series (1994-2000). 6 Seasons. 141 Episodes. The lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago. Television medical drama in soap-opera style. Surgeons Jeffrey Geiger and...

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Ed (TV Series)

2000 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jon Beckerman · Rob Burnett · Don Scardino · Timothy Busfield

Cast Tom Cavanagh · Julie Bowen · Rachel Cronin · Jana Marie Hupp

Plot TV Series (2000-2004). Ed Stevens is a contracts lawyer at a high-profile New York City firm. Around the same time he splits with his wife (she slept with a mailman),...

5.8

379 votes

5.8

379 votes

The Muppet Movie

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast The Muppets · Charles Durning · Austin Pendleton · Mel Brooks

Plot Kermit the Frog is discovered playing banjo in the Florida swamps by a talent agent and told that he has promise. And so Kermit sets out for Hollywood to find...

5.7

979 votes

5.7

979 votes

Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Brad Buckner · Eugenie Ross-Leming · Harvey S. Laidman · Burt Brinckerhoff

Cast Kate Jackson · Bruce Boxleitner · Beverly Garland · Mel Stewart

Plot A housewife, Mrs. King, is handed a package by a secret agent who who is being pursued by bad guys. The secret agent, Lee Stetson, then has to track down...

5.7

189 votes

5.7

189 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

Cagney & Lacey (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Avedon · Barbara Corday · Reza Badiyi · Sharron Miller

Cast Tyne Daly · Sharon Gless · Al Waxman · Meg Foster

Plot Television police drama starring two female cops as partners. Their contrasting personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) strengthen them as a team, allowing each a different perspective on...

5.4

203 votes

5.4

203 votes