Direction: Don Weis

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


M*A*S*H (MASH) (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard Hooker · Charles S. Dubin · Alan Alda · Burt Metcalfe

Cast Alan Alda · Loretta Swit · William Christopher · Gary Burghoff

Plot TV Series (1972-1983). 11 Seasons. 251 Episodes. War (Korean War). The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the...

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

Hill Street Blues (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Steven Bochco · Michael Kozoll · Gregory Hoblit · Christian I. Nyby II

Cast Daniel J. Travanti · Michael Conrad · Michael Warren · Bruce Weitz

Plot TV Series (1981-1987). 7 Seasons. 146 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct in New York. The original "ensemble drama," this is the...

7.2

18K votes

7.2

18K votes

6.6

70 votes

The Immortal (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Caffey · Leslie H. Martinson · Don Weis · Robert Douglas

Cast Christopher George · Don Knight · David Brian · Carol Lynley

Plot (TV Series 1969–1971). Test driver Ben Richards discovers his blood contains every immunity known to man--in effect making him immortal. When an elderly billionaire named Maitland learns of Richards' condition,...

6.6

35 votes

6.6

35 votes

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Allen Baron · Alexander Grasshoff · Don McDougall

Cast Darren McGavin · Simon Oakland · Jack Grinnage · Ruth McDevitt

Plot A newspaper reporter investigates strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago.

6.6

98 votes

6.6

98 votes

Happy Days (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 22 min. · United States

Direction Garry Marshall · Jerry Paris · Frank Buxton · Herb Wallerstein

Cast Ron Howard · Henry Winkler · Marion Ross · Anson Williams

Plot TV Series (1974-1984). 11 Seasons. 250 Episodes. The Cunningham family live through the 1950's with help and guidance from the lovable and almost superhuman greaser, Fonzie.

6.5

94 votes

6.5

94 votes

Perry Mason (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Erle Stanley Gardner · Arthur Marks · Jesse Hibbs · William D. Russell

Cast Raymond Burr · William Hopper · Barbara Hale · William Talman

Plot TV Series (1957-1966). 9 Seasons. 271 Episodes. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street (Barbara...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

I Love Melvin

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Una Merkel · Richard Anderson

Plot Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do...

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 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

Alfred Hitchcock presents: The big switch (TV)

1956 · Movie · 24 min. · United States

6.3

203 votes

6.3

203 votes

Planet of the Apes (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Bernard McEveety · Don McDougall · Arnold Laven

Cast Roddy McDowall · Ron Harper · James Naughton · Mark Lenard

Plot Television series about a group of astronauts who travel in time and become marooned on a planet. Unbeknownst to them, they are actually on future Earth. The astronauts encounter an...

6.3

322 votes

6.3

322 votes

Remington Steele (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gleason · Robert Butler · Seymour Robbie · Don Weis

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Stephanie Zimbalist · Doris Roberts · James Read

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 5 Seasons. 94 Episodes. When Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), a beautiful young private detective begins her own business (Laura Holt investigations), she soon discovers that no one...

6.3

20K votes

6.3

20K votes

The Twilight Zone: Steel (TV)

1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Lee Marvin · Joe Mantell · Chuck Hicks · Merritt Bohn

Plot In the near future, boxing has been outlawed and is performed by mechanical robots. With his next and possibly last fight approaching and his robot in need of repair, he...

6.2

64 votes

6.2

64 votes

Petrocelli (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie · Harold Buchman · Irving J. Moore · Herb Wallerstein

Cast Barry Newman · Susan Howard · Albert Salmi · David Huddleston

Plot Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He...

6.0

38 votes

6.0

38 votes

Starsky and Hutch (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction William Blinn · George McCowan · Earl Bellamy · Bob Kelljan

Cast Paul Michael Glaser · David Soul · Bernie Hamilton · Antonio Fargas

Plot TV Series (1975-1979). 4 Seasons. 92 Episodes. Jump into the Zebrathree with two of the coolest undercover cops in town - the soft-spoken Hutch and the street-wise Starsky. They join...

5.9

4K votes

5.9

4K 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

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

Plot 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...

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K votes

Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leonard Freeman · Michael O'Herlihy · Charles S. Dubin · Paul Stanley

Cast Jack Lord · James MacArthur · Kam Fong · Herman Wedemeyer

Plot TV Series (1968-1980). 12 Seasons. 284 episodes. The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve...

5.8

245 votes

5.8

245 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

Simon & Simon (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Philip DeGuere · Vincent McEveety · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Burt Kennedy

Cast Gerald McRaney · Jameson Parker · Mary Carver · Tim Reid

Plot Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency.

5.5

121 votes

5.5

121 votes