Biography
Ron Oliver is a Canadian-born writer, director, producer, and actor who started with the cult hit Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. He was also a host on Canada's YTV. He has gone on to direct various television and motion picture scripts. He has been nominated twice for the Directors Guild of America Award. He received an Emmy nomination for producing the NBC children's series "Scout's Safari" filmed on location in South Africa. He recently directed the Disney production of Harriet the Spy, shot...
Known For
Complete Filmography

To Barcelona, Forever
2025
Director
As Anna travels back to Barcelona, reuniting with Erica to celebrate her engagement to Nico, she meets a charming farmer and accidentally finds hersel...

To Barcelona, with Love
2025
Director
Erica, an American translator, secretly revises a novel set in Barcelona. Everything is fine until bookstore owner Nico invites the credited author, A...

The Groomsmen: Last Dance
2024
Director
Jackson moves to Italy to be near his daughter, but a chance meeting with café owner Gabriella, and some meddling friends, may lead to a second chance...

The Groomsmen: Second Chances
2024
Director
Danny finds the courage to admit his romantic feelings for his best friend, when he is asked to be the best man at his wedding in Greece.

The Groomsmen: First Look
2024
Director
A pediatrician and an overseas doctor, meet at a wedding in Philadelphia, but the long distance, family, and their friends may hinder their budding ro...

The Wedding Veil Journey
2023
Director
Tracy and Nick agree to set aside work to make time for a long overdue honeymoon to Greece. However, they soon find themselves confronting life choice...

Hotel for the Holidays
2022
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Georgia is an ambitious young woman and the manager of the high-end hotel, which attracts guests of all kinds—including heartbroken singles, an infamo...

Hotel for the Holidays
2022
Director, Executive Producer
Georgia is an ambitious young woman and the manager of the high-end hotel, which attracts guests of all kinds—including heartbroken singles, an infamo...

Falling for Christmas
2022
Screenplay
An engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia i...

Jolly Good Christmas
2022
Writer
David is an American architect who relocates across the pond to take up a job at a prestigious London firm. As the clock counts down to Christmas Day,...

Love in the Limelight
2022
Director
Pen pals for years, Summer finally meets Nick, her former teen crush and boy band lead singer, when he comes to town for a concert. Their friendship's...

The Housewives of the North Pole
2021
Director
The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana, have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine year...

A Timeless Christmas
2020
Writer, Director
Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.

Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death
2020
Director
While backstage on opening night of a new play by celebrated murder mystery author/director Neil Khan, photographer Allie Adams discovers the body of ...

Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds
2020
Director
Photographer Allie and Detective Sam's investigation into a priceless stolen necklace leads to danger and an unexpected death.

Christmas at the Plaza
2019
Writer, Director
With Christmas approaching in New York City, historian Jessica is hired to create an exhibition honoring the history of Christmas at The Plaza Hotel. ...

Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead
2019
Director
Small-town New England professional wedding photographer Allie Adams finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery when the groom is suddenly shot a...

Grand-Daddy Day Care
2019
Director
A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.

Christmas Everlasting
2018
Director, Teleplay
Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will ...

Truly, Madly, Sweetly
2018
Director, Teleplay
Natalie, the owner of a San Francisco food truck business selling cupcakes, and Eric, a finance manager and divorced dad are brought together when Eri...

Romance at Reindeer Lodge
2017
Writer
Molly and Jared have both sworn off holiday events. When they find themselves stuck at a Christmas-themed ranch, they have no choice but to allow thei...

The Christmas Train
2017
Director
Forced to take the intercontinental trip to Los Angeles by train, and determined to chronicle his adventure, disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon find...

A Man For Every Month
2017
Director
An shy writer has to go out on a date with a different man every month in order to write an article for her company's 'Man for Every Month' blog.

Bigger Fatter Liar
2017
Director
Kevin Shepard is a tech-savvy young genius who uses his intelligence to slack off. When greedy video game executive Alan Wolf gets a hold of his ideas...

Like Cats & Dogs
2017
Writer, Director
Spencer is a cat person. Laura is a dog person. Spencer is headed to a beach town to work on his thesis. Laura is coming to the same beach town to esc...

My Christmas Dream
2016
Writer
A department store manager sets out to create an amazing holiday display window to impress the owner. She asks a recently-fired employee to help her m...

Operation Christmas
2016
Teleplay
As her new romance blossoms, a single mother, Olivia, is dismayed when her boyfriend, Scott, a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas. ...

Every Christmas Has a Story
2016
Writer, Director
A TV personality has an on-air snafu and admits she hates Christmas. Following the debacle, she is invited to the Most Christmas-y town in America to ...

The Swap
2016
Director
Based on the book by Megan Shull, The Swap follows the adventures of a rhythmic gymnast named Ellie with a make-it-or-break-it competition, and the yo...

Diagnosis Delicious
2016
Director
Chef Dave Oberlin's career is in shambles when his altercation with a famous food critic goes viral. After being blacklisted by the elite restaurants...

Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House
2016
Screenplay, Director
Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and gh...

Date with Love
2016
Director
When a boy’s video to a female star goes viral, it scores him a date with his celebrity crush to the prom. Complications arise when the famous starlet...

Angel of Christmas
2015
Director
Susan is a newspaper staffer who decides to generate some Christmas spirit by writing an article about her family’s storied 100-year-old, hand-carved,...

A Christmas Detour
2015
Director
A bubbly bride-to-be’s Christmas plans take an unexpected turn when her holiday flight to New York is detoured and she encounters a cynical bar manage...

Harvest Moon
2015
Writer
When her family goes bankrupt, privileged city girl Jen Stone travels to the country to try and fix up a struggling pumpkin farm that her father bough...

Perfect Match
2015
Director
When an engaged couple can’t agree on anything, the mother of the groom hires a wedding planner and an event planner to help put together the wedding ...

Romantically Speaking
2015
Director
A young lady who has grown up with her father being a radio DJ, becomes one herself. Falls in love and hosts a 'Romantically Speaking' show.

I Do, I Do, I Do
2015
Director
An architect heads to the altar with her fiancé, unsure of her marriage and their future. She relives her disastrous wedding day, put together by he...

Wedding Planner Mystery
2014
Director
Wedding Planner Mystery follows the exploits of a quirky but lovable event planner who makes murder as fun as can be. Homicide doesn't follow our hero...

Recipe for Love
2014
Director
Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams o...

Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014
Director, Writer
After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they beco...

Perfect on Paper
2014
Director
Portland book editor Natalie Holland has chosen the wrong guy – another underachiever – once again. With her life going nowhere fast, she accepts a jo...

A Lesson in Romance
2014
Director
A successful career Mom gets a case of empty nest syndrome when her children go off to college, and her husband decides to join them and follow his ow...

The Good Mistress
2014
Writer
A woman's one-night stand turns out to be her friend's husband, and a local political candidate.

Her Husband's Betrayal
2013
Director
Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened wi...

The Trainer
2013
Director
Annie, 28 and recently divorced, is doing everything she can to get her life back on track. When she decides to join the New Life Fitness gym she's in...

Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade
2012
Director
As Chicago gears up for its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, Emily Jones, an eager parade coordinator is shocked when Henry Williams, a wealthy new dev...

Cupid
2012
Director
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find tru...

The Music Teacher
2012
Director
Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because...

Broken Trust
2012
Director
Sophie Anderson is the lead attorney on an intellectual property case against a corrupt pharmaceutical company. When her mentor and boss is kidnapped,...

Gone
2011
Writer
The kidnapping of a young girl propels her mother into a web of conspiracies.

Smooch
2011
Director
An imaginative youngster comes across an amnesiac prince, who she believes is a fairy-tale figure. Convinced the man would be perfect for her widowed ...

Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars
2010
Director
Young spy Harriet Welsch crosses paths with popular student Marion Hawthorne as the two girls vie to become the official blogger of their high school ...

Martinis and Murder
2009
Take a trip behind the scenes of the Donald Strachey Mystery series, featuring exclusive interviews with the cast and crew.

Something Evil Comes
2009
Director
When a young lawyer is murdered to cover up a dangerous corporate secret, his sister must face off against the ruthless killer sent to finish the job....

Red Torrent
2009
Director
A reclusive scientific prodigy and three college friends find themselves in the middle of a toxic storm, when an unscrupulous business deal rains terr...

Ice Blues
2008
Director
America's favorite gay private investigator, Donald Strachey, takes on the most complicated case of his career. After his long-time partner, Tim, asks...

Kiss Me Deadly
2008
Director
Settled into a cozy home life in Milan with his boyfriend Paolo and his daughter Julia, photographer and ex-spy Jacob Keane is suddenly drawn back int...

Bridal Fever
2008
Director
It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch ...

On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2008
Director
When the residents of a neighborhood are offered huge sums of money to sell their homes to a developer, the only ones to refuse are an elderly lesbian...

A Dennis the Menace Christmas
2007
Director
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neig...

Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die
2007
Director
Greg and his friends break into an old warehouse, where they find an unusual camera. However, the photographs Greg takes with it seem to predict disas...

All She Wants for Christmas
2006
Director
Forest City depends entirely on the Aikens Christmas decoration factory. Local economics graduate Judith 'Noelle' Dunn returned there to finish her th...

My Silent Partner
2006
Director
A San Francisco policewoman accepts a favor from a local crime boss to counter a nasty child custody battle with her ex-husband, and finds herself dan...

Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2006
Director
When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany’s favorite gay detective smells a rat and decid...

Chasing Christmas
2005
Director
Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and presen...

Goosebumps: The Perfect School
2005
Director
When he pulls yet another prank on his little brother, Brian's parents decide to send him to a summer school which claims to be perfect. After being t...

Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery
2005
Director
Gay detective Donald Strachey is commissioned to protect gay activist John Rutka, known for "outing" prominent citizens.

Goosebumps: Cry of the Cat
2005
Director, Teleplay
Allison accidentally kills a cat on her bike. But she soon finds out that this kitty has nine lives.

Goosebumps: How I Got My Shrunken Head
2005
Teleplay, Director
After receiving a mysterious shrunken head from his Aunt Benna, young Mark travels to the jungle island of Baladora where he finds his Aunt has disapp...

Blood Angels
2005
Director
A young woman gets caught up in the plans of a coven of vampires fighting to free themselves from their master.

Blue Demon
2004
Writer
The "Blue Demon" project is an attempt by a team of scientists to train Great White sharks to protect America's coastline from any intruders.

Have You Heard? Secret Central
2004
Director
A popular toy line is brought to the screen in this new animated show made especially for teenagers. Senior year is proving to be quite a challenge fo...

Goosebumps: Welcome to Camp Nightmare
1999
Director
The summer camp of Billy's dreams is turning out to be a total nightmare. The food stinks. The counselors are weird. And who or what is this vicious b...
Goosebumps: Werewolf Skin
1998
Director
Alex is determined to figure out what is going on in Wolf Creek, and is horrified to discover that his aunt and uncle may be the werewolves who have b...

Super Nova
1997
Director
As things settle down on the Lexx, the crew realizes Kai needs a constant supply of proto-blood to continue to function in the real world. Stanley and...

Cold Sweat
1993
Creative Consultant
Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a...

The Tomorrow People
1992
Director
A group of young people discover they have special powers that link them to each other and to a mysterious wrecked spacecraft on a Pacific Island. Dan...

Liar's Edge
1992
Director, Writer
A child is traumatized when his father, a stuntman, dies in an attempt to go over Niagara Falls. Later, his mother meets and marries a truck driver, a...

Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
1990
Director, Writer
Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the fifties, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilto...

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
1987
Screenplay
When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.
My Secret Santa
N/A
Screenplay