Direction: Nicholas Colasanto

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


Columbo: Swan Song (TV)

1974 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Colasanto

Cast Peter Falk · Johnny Cash · Ida Lupino · John Dehner

Synopsis A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo.

6.7

309 votes

6.7

309 votes

Columbo: Étude in Black (TV)

1972 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Colasanto · John Cassavetes · Peter Falk

Cast Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · James Olson · Blythe Danner

Synopsis An amoral conductor murders the gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6.7

444 votes

6.7

444 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

Synopsis 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 combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

Columbo (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 120 min. · United States

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Patrick McGoohan · Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · J. P. Finnegan · Robert Culp · Michael Lally

Synopsis TV Series (1971-1978). 12 Seasons. 69 Episodes. Columbo is a scruffy-looking cop who is often underestimated by his fellow officers, and by the murderer du jour. Despite his appearance and superficial absentmindedness, he solves all of his cases and manages...

6.2

12K votes

6.2

12K votes

S.W.A.T. - SWAT (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Hamner · George McCowan · Bruce Bilson · Harry Falk

Cast Steve Forrest · Robert Urich · Rod Perry · Mark Shera

Synopsis TV Series (1975-1976). 2 Seasons. 37 Episodes. This series features the missions of the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics team. They are a team of highly trained and heavily armed police officers who's purpose is to make...

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K 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

Synopsis 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 to his girl, Chris Coughlin, a writer for her father's...

5.6

399 votes

5.6

399 votes

Direction Glen A. Larson · James Sheldon · Dick Harwood · Sidney Hayers

Cast Claude Akins · Brian Kerwin · Mills Watson · Leann Hunley

Synopsis 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 stars in his own series. He is not as corrupt...

5.1

280 votes

5.1

280 votes

Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Mort Green · David Karp · Tom Gries · Sutton Roley

Cast Ron Harper · Cesare Danova · Brendon Boone · Christopher Cary

Synopsis TV Series (1967-1968). 1 season. 26 episodes. Inspired by the film "The Dirty Dozen", this series chronicles the adventures of a group of convicts recruited into the U.S. Army by the offer of a post-war parole. Commanded by West Point...

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Run for Your Life (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benedict · Leslie H. Martinson · Michael Ritchie · Leo Penn

Cast Ben Gazzara · Nicholas Colasanto · Jack Krupnick · Fernando Lamas

Synopsis TV Series. 86 episodes. Ben Gazzara plays a successful lawyer who is told in the first episode is told by his doctor that he will die in one to two years. He decides to do all of the things he...

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Felony Squad (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George McCowan · Allen Reisner · Lawrence Dobkin · Robert Butler

Cast Howard Duff · Dennis Cole · Ben Alexander · Frank Maxwell

Synopsis TV Series (1966-1969). The program starred Howard Duff (as Sergeant Sam Stone) and Dennis Cole (as Detective Jim Briggs) as investigators in a major crimes unit. The setting was an unidentified West Coast city. Duff's character was the veteran who...

Not rated

Not rated