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