Screenplay: Hugh Wilson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hugh Wilson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson · Rod Daniel · Will Mackenzie · Asaad Kelada
Cast Gary Sandy · Gordon Jump · Howard Hesseman · Loni Anderson
Plot The staff of a struggling radio station have a chance at success after the new programming director changes the format to rock music.
6.4
125 votes
6.4
125 votes
Police Academy
1984 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson
Cast Steve Guttenberg · Kim Cattrall · Bubba Smith · G.W. Bailey
Plot A big city mayor-elect, eager to make good on a campaign promise to increase-the-peace, waives entry requirements for the police force. The result: mishap, mayhem and mismanagement, as the force...
5.8
23K votes
5.8
23K votes
Guarding Tess
1994 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson
Cast Shirley MacLaine · Nicolas Cage · Austin Pendleton · Edward Albert
Plot Doug (Cage) is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle (MacLaine), widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of...
5.2
3K votes
5.2
3K votes
Blast From the Past
1999 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson
Cast Brendan Fraser · Alicia Silverstone · Sissy Spacek · Christopher Walken
Plot In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his wife Helen (Sissy Spacek) in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile...
4.9
7K votes
4.9
7K votes
Down Periscope
1996 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction David S. Ward
Cast Kelsey Grammer · Lauren Holly · Rob Schneider · Harry Dean Stanton
Plot Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days. With a crew that consists only of weird...
4.7
8K votes
4.7
8K votes
Rough Riders (TV Miniseries)
1997 · Movie · 184 min. · United States
Direction John Milius
Cast Tom Berenger · Sam Elliott · Gary Busey · Brad Johnson
Plot In 1898 the US government decided to intervene on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt decides to experience the...
4.6
30 votes
4.6
30 votes
Rustlers' Rhapsody
1985 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson
Cast Tom Berenger · G.W. Bailey · Marilu Henner · Andy Griffith
Plot While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlehan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in...
4.3
37 votes
4.3
37 votes
Burglar
1987 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson
Cast Whoopi Goldberg · Bobcat Goldthwait · G.W. Bailey · Lesley Ann Warren
3.7
1K votes
3.7
1K votes
Stroker Ace
1983 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Hal Needham
Cast Burt Reynolds · Ned Beatty · Jim Nabors · Parker Stevenson
3.6
84 votes
3.6
84 votes
Dudley Do-Right
2000 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson
Cast Brendan Fraser · Sarah Jessica Parker · Alfred Molina · Eric Idle
Plot Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash,...
2.6
2K votes
2.6
2K votes
Frank's Place (TV Series)
1987 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Hugh Wilson · Richard Dubin · Max Tash · Neema Barnette
Cast Tim Reid · Robert Harper · Daphne Reid · Francesca Roberts
Plot (1987-1988). 1 season. Frank Parish is a professor from Boston, who has not seen his father since he was two. 35 years later, he is told that his father died...
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The Tony Randall Show (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Harvey Medlinsky · Tony Mordente · Michael Zinberg · Asaad Kelada
Cast Tony Randall · Barney Martin · Allyn Ann McLerie · Rachel Roberts
Plot Fastidious Philadelphia Judge Walter Franklin has a plummy housekeeper, a sloppy court clerk, an icy secretary, and an obnoxiously ingratiating Assistant District Attorney.
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The Famous Teddy Z (TV Series)
1989 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Max Tash · Richard Dubin · Hugh Wilson · Frank Bonner
Cast Jon Cryer · Jane Sibbett · Milton Selzer · Erica Yohn
Plot (1989-1990). 1 season. Ted Zakalokis' family has a bakery and it has always been assumed that he would one day work there. But that's not what he wants to do....
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