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George McCowan (June 27, 1927 – November 1, 1995) was a Canadian film (mostly TV movies) and TV director in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
McCowan began his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He moved to the United States from Canada in 1967 and stayed there.
He is most notable for directing seven episodes of Charlie’s Angels, directing episodes of S.W.A.T., and directing episodes of Starsky and Hutch. He worked more often with such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Fantasy Island, and Hart to Hart. McCowan directed the 1971 Canadian hockey film Face-Off, the 1972 film, The Magnificent Seven Ride!, the 1972 horror film, Frogs, and the 1976 film Shadow of the Hawk.
McCowan also directed the film H. G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come and the 1970 television war movie,The Challenge, but for the latter he chose to be credited as Alan Smithee.
McCowan died in 1995 in Santa Monica, California.
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George McCowan Biography / Wiki
| Name | George McCowan |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Paris, Ontario, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1927-06-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 68 |
| Deathday | 1995-11-01 |
George McCowan Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Run, Simon, Run | Director | 1970-12-01 | A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother’s killer…. |
| Carter’s Army | Director | 1970-01-27 | A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their… |
| The Shape of Things to Come | Director | 1979-05-04 | Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what’s left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity’s continued survival depends on a… |
| The Magnificent Seven Ride! | Director | 1972-08-01 | Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend’s request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers … |
| Frogs | Director | 1972-03-10 | Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett … |
| The Love War | Director | 1970-03-10 | Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they’ve taken human form and they c… |
| The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again | Director | 1970-11-16 | Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home tow… |
| Murder on Flight 502 | Director | 1975-11-21 | On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands…. |
| Face-Off | Director | 1971-11-12 | Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with thei… |
| Shadow of the Hawk | Director | 1976-07-14 | Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Mike, the grandson of Native American shaman Old Man Hawk who is called back to his village to help defeat evil forces th… |
| The Ballad of Andy Crocker | Director | 1969-11-18 | Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business in… |
| The Monk | Director | 1969-10-22 | Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he meets Mr… |
| Love Hate Love | Director | 1971-02-09 | Ryan O’Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance w… |
| If Tomorrow Comes | Director | 1971-12-07 | In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbo… |
| The Challenge | Director | 1970-02-10 | All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single s… |
| Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol | Director | 1972-01-30 | An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall… |
| The Face of Fear | Director | 1971-10-08 | A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon… |
| Return of the Mod Squad | Director | 1979-05-18 | Three undercover detectives who once worked together are called back to team up again after several attempts are made on the life of their former comm… |
| To Kill the King | Director | 1974-09-13 | Lance Henriksen is a successful restauranteur who is having a hot n’ heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one r… |
| The July Group | Director | 1980-07-01 | A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested. The film also questions whether their attem… |
| The inbreaker | Director | 1974-04-04 | Film directed by George Mccowan… |
| Cannon [Pilot] | Director | 1971-03-26 | In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man’s wife of suspicion in his death…. |
| Return to Fantasy Island | Director | 1978-01-20 | A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Ca… |
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| Director | Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the street… | ||
| Director | The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the character… | ||
| Director | Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth… | ||
| Director | Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone … | ||
| Director | Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives…. | ||
| Director | Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series The show starred Allan Royal as journalist Tom Kirkwood, who chronicled the nightly police beat of detec… | ||
| Director | Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie’s Angels are everything a man could dream of… and way more than they could ever handle! Rec… | ||
| Director | A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware tha… | ||
| Director | The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking “hippie” undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973… | ||
| Director | Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the … | ||
| Director | The Ugliest Girl in Town is a short-lived American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC. It ran from September 26, 1968 to January 30, 1969. Timoth… | ||
| Director | Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series stars Burt Reynolds as the title character. Reruns of D… | ||
| Director | The New People is a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a tri… | ||
| Director | Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966 to January 31, 1969, a span encompa… | ||
| Director | S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California c… | ||
| Director | Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew p… | ||
| Director | Judd for the Defense is an American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967 to September 19, 1969…. | ||
| Director | The Forest Rangers was a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. It was a co-production between CBC Television and ITC Entertainment an… | ||
| Director | The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS’ lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin a… | ||
| Director | The Silent Force is a police crime drama series focused on three US Government undercover agents fighting against organized crime in southern Californ… | ||
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| Director | A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all d… | ||
| Director | The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working … | ||
| Director | Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was film… | ||
| Director | Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 epis… | ||
| Director | Bring ‘Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O’Neal. The series was shown in the United Stat… | ||
| Director | Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout’s classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25, 1981… | ||
| Director | The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for … | ||
| Director | Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm… | ||
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