Direction: Abner Biberman

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


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Collin Wilcox Paxton · Richard Long · Pamela Austin · Suzy Parker

Synopsis In a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. One young woman desperately wants to hold onto her own identity.

7.2

75 votes

7.2

75 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Dummy (TV)

1962 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Cliff Robertson · Frank Sutton · George Murdock · John Harmon

Synopsis Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Too bad he didn't clear those plans with Willie first.

7.1

107 votes

7.1

107 votes

The Fugitive (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins · Jerry Hopper · Walter Grauman · Alexander Singer

Cast David Janssen · Barry Morse · William Conrad · Paul Birch

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1967). 4 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Dr. Richard Kimble, an Indiana pediatrician, is accused, arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. Kimble claims he was on his way home from a drive when the murder occurred,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Untouchables (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Walter Grauman · Stuart Rosenberg · Paul Wendkos · John Peyser

Cast Robert Stack · Nicholas Georgiade · Abel Fernandez · Paul Picerni

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963). 4 Seasons. 119 Episodes. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

7.0

615 votes

7.0

615 votes

The Outer Limits (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Stevens · Joseph Stefano · Gerd Oswald · Byron Haskin

Cast Robert Duvall · Robert Culp · Dabney Coleman · Martin Landau

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1965). 49 episodes. Information from wikipedia.org: There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume....

6.8

704 votes

6.8

704 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

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Michael Constantine · Paul Fix · George Lindsey · Ivan Dixon

Synopsis The Sun doesn't rise on a small town where an execution is scheduled to take place.

6.2

54 votes

6.2

54 votes

The Virginian (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 75 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall · Abner Biberman · Anton Leader · William Witney

Cast James Drury · Doug McClure · Rusty Lane · Clu Gulager

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1971). 9 Seasons. 249 Episodes. The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Col. MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more...

6.2

189 votes

6.2

189 votes

Gun for a Coward

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jeffrey Hunter · Janice Rule · Chill Wills

Synopsis A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in...

5.8

157 votes

5.8

157 votes

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Pat Hingle · Nan Martin · Ruth White · Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis Horace Ford longs for his childhood which was not as idyllic as he remembers it.

5.8

45 votes

5.8

45 votes

Gilligan's Island (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · Leslie Goodwins · Gary Nelson · Jerry Hopper

Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1967). 3 Seasons. 98 episodes. Gilligan's Island was an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive and ultimately escape from a previously...

5.7

290 votes

5.7

290 votes

The Price of Fear

1956 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Merle Oberon · Lex Barker · Charles Drake · Gia Scala

Synopsis The co-owner of a racetrack discovers that his partner has sold out to a gangster. The gangster plans to take sole control of the track and plans to get rid of his new partner. The partner's problems are just beginning,...

5.4

35 votes

5.4

35 votes

Too Many Thieves

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Peter Falk · Britt Ekland · Joanna Barnes · Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things. He spends a good deal of time dodging more bad guys than in the average film, but that is because this is just...

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The Night Runner

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Ray Danton · Colleen Miller · Merry Anders · Eddy Waller

Synopsis A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Realizing that he can't handle the pressures of big-city life, and not wanting to commit...

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Ben Casey (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction James E. Moser · Leo Penn · Irving Lerner · Sydney Pollack

Cast Vince Edwards · Sam Jaffe · Jeannie Bates · Franchot Tone

Synopsis TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 153 Episodes. Gritty realistic hospital drama featuring manly Dr. Casey against the medical establishment, at first under the watchful eye of Dr. Zorba and later under the thumb of Chief of Surgery Dr. Freeland.

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The Golden Mistress

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast John Agar · Rosemarie Stack · Jacques Molant · André Narcisse

Synopsis Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure...

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Direction Boris Sagal · Walter Doniger · Fred Jackman Jr. · Ted Post

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Kurt Russell · Mark Allen · Meg Wyllie

Synopsis Twelve-year-old Jamie McPheeters, along with his ne'er-do-well father and a ragtag group of pioneers, travel westward from Paducah, Kentucky to the California gold fields in 1849.

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Sam Benedict (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction E. Jack Neuman · Abner Biberman · Richard Donner · Ida Lupino

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Richard Rust · Joan Tompkins · Ross Elliott

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1963). 1 season. 28 episodes. Sam Benedict was a lawyer show starring Edmond O'Brein, based on the career of famous attorney Jake Ehrlich, who served as a technical consultant to the show.

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Colt 45 (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Lee Sholem · Leslie H. Martinson · William J. Hole Jr. · Herbert L. Strock

Cast Wayde Preston · Kenneth MacDonald · Arthur Space · Don 'Red' Barry

Synopsis TV Series. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman but was in fact a government agent tracking down notorious badguys. His cousin Sam took the lead when the studio had contract disputes with the original star.

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