Direction: James Sheldon
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by James Sheldon. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 59
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
The Twilight Zone: It's a Good Life (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction James Sheldon
Cast Bill Mumy · John Larch · Cloris Leachman · Don Keefer
Synopsis On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
7.4
143 votes
7.4
143 votes
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
Synopsis 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 circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make...
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K 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 Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction James Sheldon
Cast Philip Abbott · Lili Darvas · Patricia Smith · Bill Mumy
Synopsis A toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother.
6.9
101 votes
6.9
101 votes
The Twilight Zone: A Penny for Your Thoughts (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction James Sheldon
Cast Dick York · June Dayton · Dan Tobin · Cyril Delevanti
Synopsis Bank clerk Hector Poole develops telepathic powers after tossing a coin to a newspaper vendor that miraculously stands on its edge. He discovers the positive and negative effects of listening in on other peoples thoughts, plans and fantasies.
6.5
96 votes
6.5
96 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
Synopsis 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 Hale) and investigator Paul Drake (William Hopper), he often finds...
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K 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
Route 66 (TV Series)
1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich · Arthur Hiller · Tom Gries · George Sherman
Cast Martin Milner · George Maharis · Glenn Corbett · Elizabeth MacRae
Synopsis Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the...
6.3
25 votes
6.3
25 votes
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 120 min. · United States
Direction Jules Irving · Bill Bixby · Ted Post · James Sheldon
Cast Peter Strauss · Gregg Henry · James Carroll Jordan · Susan Sullivan
Synopsis TV Series (1976-1977). 21 episodes. This is the sequel to the mini-series, RICH MAN, POOR MAN.
6.3
54 votes
6.3
54 votes
The Equalizer (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Michael Sloan · Richard Lindheim · Alan Metzger · Tobe Hooper
Cast Edward Woodward · Keith Szarabajka · Robert Lansing · Mark Margolis
Synopsis Robert McCall is a tough-as-nails, no-BS private eye who went into business for himself after leaving the shadowy agency he once worked for. McCall works on behalf of those whose problems the police cannot - or will not - get...
6.2
102 votes
6.2
102 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
McMillan & Wife (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 90 min. · United States
Direction Leonard Stern · Robert Michael Lewis · Lou Antonio · James Sheldon
Cast Rock Hudson · Susan Saint James · Nancy Walker · John Schuck
Synopsis TV Series (1971-1977). 40 episodes. San Francisco attorney Stuart McMillan is named Commissioner of the San Francisco Police Department. With his pretty, but somewhat kooky, wife Sally, her hard-drinking housekeeper Mildred, and his assistant, the dimwitted Seargent Charlie Enright, Mac...
6.1
288 votes
6.1
288 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
Synopsis 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 and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country...
6.0
38 votes
6.0
38 votes
The Twilight Zone: I Sing the Body Electric (TV)
1962 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction William F. Claxton · James Sheldon
Cast Josephine Hutchinson · David White · Vaughn Taylor · Doris Packer
Synopsis A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
6.0
62 votes
6.0
62 votes
The Twilight Zone: Still Valley (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction James Sheldon
Cast Gary Merrill · Vaughn Taylor · Mark Tapscott · Jack Mann
Synopsis In June 1863, Confederate soldiers come across a warlock who can help bring victory to the Southern cause.
6.0
61 votes
6.0
61 votes
Family (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction Jay Presson Allen · Richard Kinon · Edward Parone · Glenn Jordan
Cast Kristy McNichol · Meredith Baxter · Sada Thompson · James Broderick
Synopsis TV Series (1976-1980). 5 seasons. 86 episodes. The show featured Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, a happily married middle-class couple living in Pasadena, California. Doug is an independent lawyer, and Kate was a housewife (she...
5.8
30 votes
5.8
30 votes
The Twilight Zone: The Whole Truth (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction James Sheldon
Cast Jack Carson · Loring Smith · George Chandler · Jack Ging
Synopsis Harvey Hunnicutt is the stereotypical used car salesman: a fast talker who, to put it politely, is prone to stretching the truth about the cars he sells. He buys a used car from an old gentleman paying him far less...
5.7
71 votes
5.7
71 votes
Family Affair (TV Series)
1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Don Fedderson · Edmund L. Hartmann · James Sheldon · Charles Barton
Cast Brian Keith · Kathy Garver · Anissa Jones · Johnny Whitaker
Synopsis Bill Davis is a single bachelor living in Manhattan with his butler Giles French. He is enjoying his life of freedom until his late brother's three children show up (twins Buffy and Jody, age 6, and Cissy, age 15). Soon...
5.7
36 votes
5.7
36 votes
The Waltons (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Earl Hamner Jr. · Harry Harris · Philip Leacock · Ralph Waite
Cast Jon Walmsley · Eric Scott · Kami Cotler · Earl Hamner Jr.
Synopsis TV Series (1971-1981). 9 seasons. 213 episodes. In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on Walton's Mountain. The story is told through the eyes of...
5.7
87 votes
5.7
87 votes