Screenplay: Bill Walsh

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


Mary Poppins

1964 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Julie Andrews · Dick Van Dyke · David Tomlinson · Glynis Johns

Plot A magical nanny takes the two young children of a wealthy London banker on a journey into playful worlds and eccentric characters, eventually showing them and their cold-hearted father the...

7.1

90K votes

7.1

90K votes

Bedknobs & Broomsticks

1971 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Angela Lansbury · David Tomlinson · Roddy McDowall · Sam Jaffe

Plot When a mail-order apprentice witch (Angela Lansbury) is saddled with three sibling refugees from London during World War II, the outlook is grim. But the kids soon discover her secret...

6.7

15K votes

6.7

15K votes

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Peter Ustinov · Dean Jones · Suzanne Pleshette · Elsa Lanchester

Plot In this comedy, Peter Ustinov is the famous pirate's ghost that returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife who was a notorious witch, so that...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Byron Paul

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Nancy Kwan · Akim Tamiroff · Arthur Malet

Plot Lt. Robin Crusoe (Dick Van Dyke) is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house,...

6.2

185 votes

6.2

185 votes

The AbsentMinded Professor

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Fred MacMurray · Nancy Olson · Keenan Wynn · Tommy Kirk

Plot College professor Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

5.8

403 votes

5.8

403 votes

The Shaggy Dog

1959 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jean Hagen · Tommy Kirk · Annette Funicello

Plot After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines, mail carrier Wilson Daniels sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring...

5.5

66 votes

5.5

66 votes

That Darn Cat!

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Hayley Mills · Dean Jones · Dorothy Provine · Roddy McDowall

Plot The fur flies when a smart Siamese cat goes undercover and Hayley Mills and Dean Jones team up for mystery, adventure and wild comedy on Disney DVD. When the irrepressible...

5.3

466 votes

5.3

466 votes

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

1975 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Peter Ustinov · Helen Hayes · Clive Revill · Derek Nimmo

Plot This is a light, frothy family comedy that revolves around British Lord Southmere (Derek Nimmo), who has smuggled a piece of microfilm containing "Lotus X" out of China. Once back...

5.2

357 votes

5.2

357 votes

Son of Flubber

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Fred MacMurray · Nancy Olson · Keenan Wynn · Tommy Kirk

Plot Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and...

5.2

83 votes

5.2

83 votes

Herbie Rides Again

1974 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Helen Hayes · Ken Berry · Stefanie Powers · John McIntire

Plot Alonzo Hawk is a mean-spirited property developer who has bought several blocks of land in the downtown district in order to build a gigantic shopping mall. There is one problem...

5.1

2K votes

5.1

2K votes

Bon Voyage!

1962 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction James Neilson

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jane Wyman · Michael Callan · Deborah Walley

Plot The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his...

5.1

42 votes

5.1

42 votes

The Love Bug (TV)

1997 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

4.4

187 votes

4.4

187 votes

Flubber

1997 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Les Mayfield

Cast Robin Williams · Marcia Gay Harden · Christopher McDonald · Raymond J. Barry

Plot Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where...

4.3

27K votes

4.3

27K votes

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

1964 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Tommy Kirk · Annette Funicello · Leon Ames · Stuart Erwin

Plot Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.

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The Littlest Outlaw

1955 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Andrés Velázquez · Pedro Armendáriz · Joseph Calleia · Rodolfo Acosta

Plot Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The...

Not rated

Not rated

Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Kevin Corcoran · Henry Calvin · Gene Sheldon · Bob Sweeney

Plot Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.

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The Shaggy Dog (TV)

1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Dennis Dugan

Cast Ed Begley Jr. · Sharon Lawrence · Jon Polito · James Cromwell

Plot An old ring believed to possess love powers turns a museum manager's (Ed Begley Jr.) shy son (Scott Weinger) into a sheep dog.

Not rated

Not rated

Scandalous John

1971 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Brian Keith · Alfonso Arau · Michele Carey · Rick Lenz

Plot A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Not rated

Not rated