Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 6
2022
Director
A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, Volume 6 features the talents of George "Spanky" McFarland, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, ...

The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
2011
Director
The only thing more outrageous than The Little Rascals' antics are their wild imaginations! See what happens when the Gang is left alone to guess at w...

Viva Knievel!
1977
Director
The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.

Nevada Smith
1975
Director
A half-breed gunslinger and a friend he hasn't seen in years join together to escort a shipment of explosives across Utah.

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
1973
Director
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, ...

Skin Game
1971
Co-Director
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 town in...

Barquero
1970
Director
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 ...

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
Director
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

Skullduggery
1970
Director
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.

Lady in Cement
1968
Director
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
1968
Director
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

Tony Rome
1967
Director
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...

Chuka
1967
Director
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

In Like Flint
1967
Director
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...

Way... Way Out
1966
Director
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

Stagecoach
1966
Director
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...

Harlow
1965
Director
Jean Harlow arrives in Los Angeles as a teenager, pushed into showbiz by her mother and stepfather. Kindhearted agent Arthur Landau becomes Jean's men...

Sylvia
1965
Director
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 n...

Rio Conchos
1964
Director
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...

Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
Director
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob bos...

Call Me Bwana
1963
Director
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—t...

Follow That Dream
1962
Director
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...

Claudelle Inglish
1961
Director
A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by be...

The Sins of Rachel Cade
1961
Director
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.

Gold of the Seven Saints
1961
Director
Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory.

Yellowstone Kelly
1959
Director
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...

Up Periscope
1959
Director
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 ...

The Fiend Who Walked the West
1958
Director
A convicted bank robber, serving his sentence and yearning for freedom, becomes entangled with a psychotic, homicidal inmate. This inmate turns on him...

Fort Dobbs
1958
Director
An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richar...

Bombers B-52
1957
Director
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 Big Land
1957
Director
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranch...

Santiago
1956
Director
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
1955
Director
He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive...

The McConnell Story
1955
Director
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...

Young at Heart
1954
Director
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...

Them!
1954
Director
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists ...

So This Is Love
1953
Director
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

The Charge at Feather River
1953
Director
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.

She's Back on Broadway
1953
Director
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...

The Iron Mistress
1952
Director
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'...

Mara Maru
1952
Director
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.

Come Fill the Cup
1951
Director
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...

I Was a Communist for the FBI
1951
Director
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.

Only the Valiant
1951
Director
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...

The Great Missouri Raid
1951
Director
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...

Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
Director
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...

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950
Director
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 bus...

Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1950
Director
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.

Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
Director
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 Nevadan
1950
Director
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

Mr. Soft Touch
1949
Director
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's...

The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Director
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...

Walk a Crooked Mile
1948
Director
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...

The Black Arrow
1948
Director
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...

If You Knew Susie
1948
Director
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...

San Quentin
1946
Director
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
1946
Director
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

First Yank into Tokyo
1945
Director
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.

Zombies on Broadway
1945
Director
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.

The Falcon in Hollywood
1944
Director
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...

Girl Rush
1944
Director
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...

A Night of Adventure
1944
Director
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

Gildersleeve's Ghost
1944
Director
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.

Gildersleeve on Broadway
1943
Director
On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

Gildersleeve's Bad Day
1943
Director
Gildersleeve has jury duty.

The Great Gildersleeve
1942
Director
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.

The Devil with Hitler
1942
Director
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 ...

Niagara Falls
1941
Director
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

Broadway Limited
1941
Director
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...

Topper Returns
1941
Screenplay
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealt...

Saps at Sea
1940
Director
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...

We Are Not Alone
1939
as Mr. Selby
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
Screenplay
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

In Name Only
1939
as Steward (uncredited)
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.

Zenobia
1939
Director
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Aladdin's Lantern
1938
Director
Spanky and Alfalfa want 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
1938
as Theater Usher
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.
The Little Ranger
1938
Director
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.

Hide and Shriek
1938
Director
Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house.

Feed 'em and Weep
1938
Director
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...

Came the Brawn
1938
Director
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his oppon...

Bear Facts
1938
Director
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
1938
Director
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...

Our Gang Follies of 1938
1937
Director
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 Pigskin Palooka
1937
Director
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...

Framing Youth
1937
Director
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.

Fishy Tales
1937
Director
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.

Night 'n' Gales
1937
Director
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.

Roamin' Holiday
1937
Director
The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.

Three Smart Boys
1937
Director
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...

Rushin' Ballet
1937
Director
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.

Hearts Are Thumps
1937
Director
The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.

Glove Taps
1937
Director
Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.

Reunion in Rhythm
1937
Director
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.

Spooky Hooky
1936
Director
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...

General Spanky
1936
Director
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wron...

Pay As You Exit
1936
Director
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.

Two Too Young
1936
Director
Spanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky's and Buckwheat's fireworks.

Kelly the Second
1936
Adaptation
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Bored of Education
1936
Director
Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in...
The Infernal Triangle
1935
Director

Anniversary Trouble
1935
Assistant Director
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.

The Fatal Glass of Beer
1933
as Student Drinker (uncredited)
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Too Many Women
1932
as Gordon
College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies.
You're Telling Me
1932
as Eddie Morgan
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...

The Knockout
1932
as Slug, Sophomore Champ
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.

On the Loose
1931
as Fun House Worker (uncredited)
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...

Come Clean
1931
as Hotel desk clerk
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...

Catch-As Catch-Can
1931
as Young man (uncredited)
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.

Let's Do Things
1931
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.

Love Fever
1931
as Thelma's Chauffeur (uncredited)
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.

Chickens Come Home
1931
as Passerby Outside Apartment
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

Looser Than Loose
1930
as Young Man
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.

Teacher's Pet
1930
as Second Caterer
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.