Hugh Wilson
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Hugh Wilson (August 21, 1943 - January 14, 2018) is an American director, writer and actor. He is best known as the creator and executive producer of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place.
Hugh is a distinguished alumnus from the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is currently a guest professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
The character of Bailey Quarters on WKRP was based on Wilson's wife.
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Filmography - Directing
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Mickey (2004)
Best-selling author John Grisham deviates from his usual literary thrillers with this winning film that stars Harry Connick Jr. as Tripp Spence, a widower who goes on the run from the IRS with his 12-year-old baseball-phenomenon son, Derrick (Shawn Salinas). They assume new identities and flee to Las Vegas, where Derrick, now known as Mickey, joins a team that makes it to the Little ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Michelle Johnson | Harry Connick Jr. | Shawn Salinas
Dudley Do-Right (1999)
Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan?
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Eric Idle | Alfred Molina | Sarah Jessica Parker | Brendan Fraser | Robert Prosky
Blast from the Past (1999)
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Nathan Fillion | Christopher Walken | Brendan Fraser | Sissy Spacek | Alicia Silverstone
The First Wives Club (1996)
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Diane Keaton | Maggie Smith | Dan Hedaya | Bette Midler | Goldie Hawn
Guarding Tess (1994)
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Shirley MacLaine | Austin Pendleton | James Rebhorn | Edward Albert
Burglar (1987)
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Lesley Ann Warren | Whoopi Goldberg | John Goodman | Bobcat Goldthwait | G. W. Bailey
Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlehan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a cliche ridden town, in which the evil cattle baron (Andy Griffith) and the new Italian cowboys (who always wear raincoats no matter how hot it gets) join forces to get him and the sheep ranchers to leave.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Tom Berenger | Marilu Henner | Patrick Wayne | Andy Griffith | G. W. Bailey
Police Academy (1984)
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Kim Cattrall | Steve Guttenberg | Bubba Smith | Donovan Scott | G. W. Bailey