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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

114

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-05-13

Deathday

2000-07-26 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Don Weis

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Don Weis (May 13, 1922 - July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director.

Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as Bannerline (1951), Just This Once (1952), You for Me (1952) and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953).

Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others.

Weis won two Directors Guild of America Awards for television direction in 1956 and again in 1958.

Weis died in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 78 years of age.

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Crew

1950

The Men as Dialogue Coach

Directing

1989

Brand New Life as Director

1988		Murphy's Law as Director
1988		Freddy's Nightmares as Director

1986

The Wizard as Director

1985		MacGyver as Director
1985		Eye to Eye as Director

1984		Crazy like a Fox as Director
1984		Partners in Crime as Director
1984		Cover Up as Director

1983

Lottery! as Director

1982		Remington Steele as Director
1982		Matt Houston as Director
1982		Bring 'Em Back Alive as Director
1982		Cagney & Lacey as Director
1982		T. J. Hooker as Director

1981		Simon & Simon as Director
1981		Code Red as Director
1981		The Munsters' Revenge as Director
1981		Hill Street Blues as Director
1981		Flamingo Road as Director

1980		Back to the Planet of the Apes as Director
1980		The Six O'Clock Follies as Director
1980		Beyond Westworld as Director

1979

Delta House as Director

1978		The Millionaire as Director
1978		Zero to Sixty as Director
1978		Fantasy Island as Director

1977		The Love Boat as Director
1977		The San Pedro Beach Bums as Director
1977		CHiPs as Director

1976		Charlie's Angels as Director
1976		Spencer's Pilots as Director
1976		Crackle of Death as Director
1976		Demon and the Mummy as Director

1975		Matt Helm as Director
1975		Starsky & Hutch as Director
1975		Barbary Coast as Director
1975		Bronk as Director
1975		S.W.A.T. as Director
1975		Baretta as Director

1974		Planet of the Apes as Director
1974		Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Director
1974		Petrocelli as Director
1974		Firehouse as Director
1974		Happy Days as Director

1973

The Magician as Director

1972

M*A*S*H as Director

1970

The Immortal as Director

1969

The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Director

1968		Now You See It, Now You Don't as Director
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Director
1968		Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? as Director

1967		Mannix as Director
1967		The Danny Thomas Hour as Director
1967		The King's Pirate as Director
1967		Ironside as Director
1967		The Longest Hundred Miles as Director

1966		The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini as Director
1966		Batman as Director

1965

Billie as Director

1964		Pajama Party as Director
1964		The Munsters as Director
1964		Looking for Love as Director

1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre as Director
1963		Burke's Law as Director
1963		The Patty Duke Show as Director
1963		Channing as Director
1963		Vacation Playhouse as Director
1963		Critic's Choice as Director

1962

The Virginian as Director

1961		Alcoa Premiere as Director
1961		The New Bob Cummings Show as Director
1961		The Dick Van Dyke Show as Director
1961		87th Precinct as Director

1960		The Andy Griffith Show as Director
1960		Checkmate as Director

1959		The Gene Krupa Story as Director
1959		The Detectives as Director
1959		The Twilight Zone as Director
1959		The Dennis O'Keefe Show as Director
1959		The Troubleshooters as Director

1957		Perry Mason as Director
1957		The Thin Man as Director
1957		M Squad as Director
1957		Mr. Adams and Eve as Director

1956		Ride The High Iron as Director
1956		General Electric Summer Originals as Director

1955		The 20th Century Fox Hour as Director
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Director
1955		The Jane Wyman Show as Director
1955		Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid as Director

1954		The Adventures of Hajji Baba as Director
1954		Studio 57 as Director
1954		Dear Phoebe as Director

1953		Skip Taylor as Director
1953		The Affairs of Dobie Gillis as Director
1953		A Slight Case of Larceny as Director
1953		Remains to Be Seen as Director
1953		Half a Hero as Director
1953		I Love Melvin as Director
1953		General Electric Theater as Director

1952		You for Me as Director
1952		Just This Once as Director

1951		It's a Big Country as Director
1951		Bannerline as Director
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Director
1951		The Prowler as Script Supervisor
1951		M as Script Supervisor

1949		Mrs. Mike as Script Supervisor
1949		The Red Pony as Script Supervisor

Production

1965

Billie as Producer

Sound

1948

No Minor Vices as Dialogue Editor

Writing

1952

You for Me as Writer