Screenplay: David Jacobs

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by David Jacobs. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Brain Games (TV Series)

2011 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States

Direction Michael Nigro · Trey Nelson · Jeremiah Crowell

Plot TV Series (2011-Present). 8 Seasons. An examination of the nature of human perception and how it can be fooled.

7.4

184 votes

7.4

184 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

Plot 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...

5.8

30 votes

5.8

30 votes

Dallas (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Michael M. Robin · Steve Robin · Jesse Bochco · Millicent Shelton

Cast Larry Hagman · Patrick Duffy · Linda Gray · Steve Kanaly

Plot TV Series (2012-2014). 3 Seasons. 40 Episodes. The story focuses on the offspring of bitter rivals and brothers JR and Bobby Ewing, who clash over the future of the Ewing...

5.3

232 votes

5.3

232 votes

Knots Landing (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Jacobs · Nicholas Sgarro · Lorraine Senna · Joseph L. Scanlan

Cast Michele Lee · Ted Shackelford · Joan Van Ark · Kevin Dobson

Plot A popular night time soap opera, it followed the adventures of five families living in a coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California: Gary and Valene Ewing, relatives of the...

5.2

21 votes

5.2

21 votes

Dallas (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Jacobs · Leonard Katzman · Michael Preece · Irving J. Moore

Cast Barbara Bel Geddes · Jim Davis · Patrick Duffy · Linda Gray

Plot TV Series (1978-1991). 14 Seasons. 357 Episodes. The series revolves around the wealthy Ewing family who occupy a mansion at the sprawling South Fork ranch in posh Braddock Country just...

5.1

4K votes

5.1

4K votes

Secrets of Midland Heights (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gabrielle Beaumont · Fernando Lamas

Cast Robert Hogan · Melora Hardin · Martha Scott · Linda Hamilton

Plot The soap opera featured romantic triangles and secrets among the teens and their parents who populated a fictional midwestern college town called Midland Heights.

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Kingston: Confidential (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Dick Moder · Christian I. Nyby II · Joseph Pevney

Cast Raymond Burr · Pamela Hensley · Art Hindle · Linda Galloway

Plot Publishing magnate R.B. Kingston, with help from his young assistants, solves crimes in his spare time from operating his empire of newspapers and TV stations.

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Paradise (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Jacobs · Robert Porter · Michael Lange · Robert Scheerer

Cast Lee Horsley · Jenny Beck · Matthew Newmark · Brian Lando

Plot In 1890 in the town of Paradise, a professional gunfighter is forced to take custody of his sister's four children and retire to a farm and a quiet life. Nevertheless,...

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Not rated