Gary Nelson

1934-10-06 Los Angeles, California, USA 37 Credits

Biography

An American television and film director. He has directed many well-know television series, including Gunsmoke, The Patty Duke Show, Gilligan's Island and Happy Days among dozens of others. In addition, Nelson has directed five films, including two for Walt Disney Pictures. In 1978, Nelson was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directoral Achievement for Washington: Behind Closed Doors. He was married to actress Judi Meredith and has two sons. Nelson has semi-retired, but continues to occasio...

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as Self - Director, Allan Quatermain

7.2
Acting

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yor...

Melanie Darrow

Melanie Darrow

1997

Director

Directing

A flamboyant female defense attorney takes on a seemingly airtight case, defending an apparently gold-digging husband against the charge of murdering ...

Fast Company

Fast Company

1995

Director

Directing

A homicide detective is assigned to solve a murder case. The trouble is that his wife, a reporter, has been assigned by her employer to cover the same...

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995

Director

Directing

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Director

Directing

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

1993

Director

4.5
Directing

A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbl...

The Return of Ironside

The Return of Ironside

1993

Director

4.8
Directing

After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting wit...

The Sands of Time

The Sands of Time

1992

Director

Directing

Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

Revolver

Revolver

1992

Director

Directing

Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major ...

The Hit Man

The Hit Man

1991

Director

Directing

When a desperate kid tries to steal the car of a famous movie director to help his family pay their debt to a predatory lender, the director and his s...

The Lookalike

The Lookalike

1990

Director

3.7
Directing

A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again!

1989

Director

5.3
Directing

KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.

Police Story: The Watch Commander

Police Story: The Watch Commander

1988

Director, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him ca...

Shooter

Shooter

1988

Director

5.5
Directing

"Shooter" (a.k.a., Matt Thompson, a.k.a., Gruwald) is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thomp...

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

1986

Finance, Director

4.7
Directing

After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow...

Murder in Three Acts

Murder in Three Acts

1986

Director

5.7
Directing

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural unt...

The Baron and the Kid

The Baron and the Kid

1984

Director

Directing

Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whose reunion with his long-lost son (Greg Webb) sets ...

More Than Murder

More Than Murder

1984

Director

4.2
Directing

Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.

For Love and Honor

For Love and Honor

1983

Director

10.0
Directing

A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments...

Murder Me, Murder You

Murder Me, Murder You

1983

Director

6.6
Directing

Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

Murder in Coweta County

Murder in Coweta County

1983

Director

6.8
Directing

Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control...

Jimmy the Kid

Jimmy the Kid

1982

Director

5.1
Directing

Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.

The Pride of Jesse Hallam

The Pride of Jesse Hallam

1981

Director

5.0
Directing

Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The big city ch...

The Black Hole

The Black Hole

1979

as Drone with Mask Removed (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposed...

The Black Hole

The Black Hole

1979

Director

5.8
Directing

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposed...

A Movie Star's Daughter

A Movie Star's Daughter

1979

Director

8.5
Directing

A shy teen enrolls in a new school and doesn't make friends easily. Then, overnight, everyone wants to be her friend, once it is discovered that her f...

It's a Mile from Here to Glory

1978

Director

Directing

A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on others for his day-to-day living.

To Kill a Cop

To Kill a Cop

1978

Director

Directing

Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are o...

Freaky Friday

Freaky Friday

1976

Director

6.1
Directing

School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life....

Panache

Panache

1976

Director

Directing

A stylish comedy swashbuckler mixing romance, masterful swordplay, political treachery, and 20th-Century pratfalls in 17th-Century France, this film w...

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers

1975

Director

6.8
Directing

A young boy gets along better with the animals he befriends around his family's Canadian farm than with the people he lives with.

Medical Story

Medical Story

1975

Director

Directing

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

1974

Director

5.5
Directing

A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri...

Santee

Santee

1973

Director

5.3
Directing

Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hun...

Molly and Lawless John

Molly and Lawless John

1972

Director

3.0
Directing

Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handso...

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

1971

Director

Directing
Secrets of the Pirate's Inn

Secrets of the Pirate's Inn

1969

Director

7.0
Directing

A gang of kids helps a sea captain search for a pirate’s treasure that’s rumored to be hidden somewhere in the old dilapidated inn the sea captain jus...