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Gordon Douglas (born Gordon Douglas Brickner; December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures.
Gordon Douglas Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gordon Douglas |
| Also Know | Gordon Douglas Brickner, Gordon M. Douglas |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1907-12-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday | 1993-09-29 |
Gordon Douglas Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| You’re Telling Me | Eddie Morgan | 1932-04-16 | In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend’s place for what they tell him will be one night – thou… |
| Looser Than Loose | Young Man | 1930-11-15 | Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain…. |
| Too Many Women | Gordon | 1932-05-14 | College baseball player Mickey Daniels can’t keep his mind on the game when he’s got an eye for the ladies…. |
| The Knockout | Slug, Sophomore Champ | 1932-03-05 | When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter’s place in a bout…. |
| The Fatal Glass of Beer | Student Drinker (uncredited) | 1933-03-03 | The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that “ain’t fit for man nor beast.”… |
| Chickens Come Home | Passerby Outside Apartment | 1931-02-21 | Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo…. |
| Come Clean | Hotel desk clerk | 1931-09-19 | The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and… |
| Let’s Do Things | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | 1931-06-06 | Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub…. |
| Catch-As Catch-Can | Young man (uncredited) | 1931-08-22 | Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight…. |
| On the Loose | Fun House Worker (uncredited) | 1931-12-26 | Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mu… |
| Love Fever | Thelma’s Chauffeur (uncredited) | 1931-04-11 | An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it’s the real thing…. |
| In Name Only | Steward (uncredited) | 1939-08-18 | A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife…. |
| We Are Not Alone | Mr. Selby | 1939-11-25 | A British doctor and his son’s Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife…. |
Gordon Douglas Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Them! | Director | 1954-06-16 | As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists … |
| Zombies on Broadway | Director | 1945-05-01 | Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult…. |
| Harlow | Director | 1965-06-23 | Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both… |
| In Like Flint | Director | 1967-03-15 | Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds t… |
| Barquero | Director | 1970-07-29 | Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river–crossable only … |
| Rio Conchos | Director | 1964-10-28 | Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Co… |
| Tony Rome | Director | 1967-11-10 | Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has se… |
| Walk a Crooked Mile | Director | 1948-09-02 | A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation… |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Director | 1970-07-10 | A police detective’s investigation of a prostitute’s murder points to his best friend…. |
| Lady in Cement | Director | 1968-11-19 | While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after,… |
| The Detective | Director | 1968-05-28 | Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man…. |
| Young at Heart | Director | 1954-12-01 | The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter’s life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming compo… |
| Between Midnight and Dawn | Director | 1950-10-01 | Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are att… |
| The Falcon in Hollywood | Director | 1944-12-08 | Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence–aka Michael Arlen’s literary hero The Falcon–arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find hi… |
| Saps at Sea | Director | 1940-04-29 | Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem… |
| The Nevadan | Director | 1950-01-11 | A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher…. |
| Chuka | Director | 1967-07-23 | A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories…. |
| Stagecoach | Director | 1966-04-21 | A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who’s been thr… |
| Robin and the 7 Hoods | Director | 1964-06-24 | In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Gu… |
| Up Periscope | Director | 1959-03-04 | Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he’s been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy … |
| Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Director | 1950-08-19 | Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime b… |
| Dick Tracy vs. Cueball | Director | 1946-11-22 | A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac…. |
| Follow That Dream | Director | 1962-04-11 | When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his… |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI | Director | 1951-05-02 | A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization…. |
| Mr. Soft Touch | Director | 1949-07-28 | When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WW2 hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club’s … |
| Gildersleeve on Broadway | Director | 1943-10-28 | On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger…. |
| General Spanky | Director | 1936-12-11 | Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wron… |
| San Quentin | Director | 1946-12-16 | An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don’t go as planned…. |
| The Sins of Rachel Cade | Director | 1961-04-02 | A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves…. |
| Slaughter’s Big Rip Off | Director | 1973-08-31 | Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, … |
| Viva Knievel! | Director | 1977-06-10 | The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure…. |
| Only the Valiant | Director | 1951-04-13 | Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteer… |
| Mara Maru | Director | 1952-04-23 | An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines…. |
| The Iron Mistress | Director | 1952-11-19 | In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse’… |
| Fortunes of Captain Blood | Director | 1950-05-19 | When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They’ve been taken prisoner by the Spanish M… |
| The Devil with Hitler | Director | 1942-10-18 | Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the … |
| Sylvia | Director | 1965-02-10 | Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator … |
| Bombers B-52 | Director | 1957-11-22 | Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois…. |
| The McConnell Story | Director | 1955-09-29 | Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every ste… |
| Way… Way Out | Director | 1966-10-26 | A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple…. |
| First Yank into Tokyo | Director | 1945-09-05 | A U.S. pilot (Tom Neal) undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist’s (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets…. |
| Call Me Bwana | Director | 1963-06-14 | A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it  |
| Rogues Of Sherwood Forest | Director | 1950-06-21 | The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father’s tradition. Director Gordon Douglas’ minor 1950 swashbuckler stars John Derek, Diana Lynn, Alan Hale… |
| The Fiend Who Walked The West | Director | 1958-08-01 | Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate…. |
| Fort Dobbs | Director | 1958-04-18 | An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas’ 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richar… |
| Come Fill The Cup | Director | 1951-10-24 | Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back a… |
| Zenobia | Director | 1939-04-21 | A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter’s upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant…. |
| If You Knew Susie | Director | 1948-02-07 | In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they… |
| The Great Gildersleeve | Director | 1942-12-17 | A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew…. |
| Claudelle Inglish | Director | 1961-09-20 | A rural southern girl reaches the age where she’s ready for a little excitement away from home. Director Gordon Douglas’ 1961 drama stars Diane McBain… |
| The Doolins of Oklahoma | Director | 1949-05-27 | When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the lea… |
| The Big Land | Director | 1957-03-01 | Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranch… |
| Came the Brawn | Director | 1938-04-15 | Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his oppon… |
| Gildersleeve’s Bad Day | Director | 1943-05-10 | Gildersleeve has jury duty…. |
| She’s Back on Broadway | Director | 1953-03-14 | When Catherine Terris’s career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs…Broadway! She takes the lead in a… |
| Pay As You Exit | Director | 1936-10-23 | The “Our Gang” kids stage a production of “Romeo and Juliet,” but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa…. |
| Spooky Hooky | Director | 1936-12-24 | The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher’s desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was… |
| Two Too Young | Director | 1936-09-25 | Spanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky’s and Buckwheat’s fireworks…. |
| Bored of Education | Director | 1936-08-20 | Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school…. |
| Hide and Shriek | Director | 1938-06-18 | Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house…. |
| The Charge at Feather River | Director | 1953-07-11 | A frontier scout (Guy Madison) leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women…. |
| Santiago | Director | 1956-07-13 | Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. … |
| Sincerely Yours | Director | 1955-11-05 | He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can reli… |
| Gildersleeve’s Ghost | Director | 1944-06-01 | Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman…. |
| Our Gang Follies of 1938 | Director | 1937-12-18 | Alfalfa gives up being “King of the Crooners” to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots…. |
| The Great Missouri Raid | Director | 1951-02-01 | During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfar… |
| Feed ’em and Weep | Director | 1938-05-06 | It’s Mr. Hood’s birthday and he’s looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. But Darla’s friends show up with living presents, eat his di… |
| Bear Facts | Director | 1938-03-05 | In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he’s a famous bear trainer. Little does he know that Darla’s father owns a circus – and a bear c… |
| Canned Fishing | Director | 1938-02-12 | Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick and Spanky should stay with him while the parents are… |
| Rushin’ Ballet | Director | 1937-04-24 | While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital…. |
| Three Smart Boys | Director | 1937-05-13 | When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, t… |
| Night ‘n’ Gales | Director | 1937-07-24 | Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla’s house, and they drive her father crazy…. |
| Reunion in Rhythm | Director | 1937-01-08 | The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids…. |
| Glove Taps | Director | 1937-02-20 | Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight…. |
| Hearts Are Thumps | Director | 1937-04-03 | The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine’s Day, but Alfalfa can’t resist Darla…. |
| Roamin’ Holiday | Director | 1937-06-11 | The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple…. |
| Framing Youth | Director | 1937-09-11 | Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win…. |
| The Pigskin Palooka | Director | 1937-10-23 | While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he’s back ho… |
| Fishy Tales | Director | 1937-08-28 | Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated…. |
| A Night of Adventure | Director | 1944-06-02 | A lawyer tries to clear his wife’s lover of murder charges…. |
| So This Is Love | Director | 1953-07-15 | Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953…. |
| Girl Rush | Director | 1944-10-21 | During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western minin… |
| Skullduggery | Director | 1970-03-06 | An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man…. |
| The Black Arrow | Director | 1948-03-18 | A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is… |
| Gold of the Seven Saints | Director | 1961-02-18 | Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory…. |
| Broadway Limited | Director | 1941-06-13 | A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought… |
| Yellowstone Kelly | Director | 1959-11-11 | A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly… |
| Niagara Falls | Director | 1941-10-17 | The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room…. |
| Anniversary Trouble | Assistant Director | 1935-03-13 | The gang’s treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father’s money…. |
| Skin Game | Co-Director | 1971-09-30 | Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to t… |
| Aladdin’s Lantern | Director | 1938-09-17 | Spanky and Alfalfa wants to do a show based on the “Aladdin’s Lamp” story with Darla in the cast, but Darla doesn’t want to participate…. |
| The Little Ranger | Director | 1938-08-06 | Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla’s heart…. |
| The Infernal Triangle | Director | 1935-08-17 | … |
| Nevada Smith | Director | 1975-05-03 | A half-breed gunslinger and a friend he hasn’t seen in years join together to escort a shipment of explosives across Utah…. |
| Director | Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 … | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Housekeeper’s Daughter | Screenplay | 1939-10-26 | A mobster’s moll (Joan Bennett) leads a newsman (Adolphe Menjou), cub reporter (John Hubbard) and photographer to a scoop…. |
| Topper Returns | Screenplay | 1941-03-21 | Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it’s Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of h… |
| Kelly the Second | Adaptation | 1936-08-21 | A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer…. |
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