Andrew V. McLaglen
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Andrew Victor McLaglen (born 28 July 1920) is a British-American film and television director and former actor. Andrew McLaglen was born in London, the son of British actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. He was from a film family that included eight uncles and an aunt, and he grew up on movie sets with his parents as well as John Wayne and John Ford. After working as an assistant director on a few smaller films, Ford gave him the assistant director job on the film The Quiet Man (1952). After a few more assistant or second director jobs, McLaglen directed his first film Gun The Man Down in 1956 - a western B-movie with James Arness, Angie Dickinson and Harry Carey, Jr.. He went on to work extensively in television directing, directing episodes of Perry Mason (7), Gunslinger (5), Rawhide (6), and then 99 episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel, The Lieutenant (4), The Virginian (2), and 96 episodes of Gunsmoke. Returning ... Show more...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Andrew Victor McLaglen (born 28 July 1920) is a British-American film and television director and former actor. Andrew McLaglen was born in London, the son of British actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. He was from a film family that included eight uncles and an aunt, and he grew up on movie sets with his parents as well as John Wayne and John Ford. After working as an assistant director on a few smaller films, Ford gave him the assistant director job on the film The Quiet Man (1952). After a few more assistant or second director jobs, McLaglen directed his first film Gun The Man Down in 1956 - a western B-movie with James Arness, Angie Dickinson and Harry Carey, Jr.. He went on to work extensively in television directing, directing episodes of Perry Mason (7), Gunslinger (5), Rawhide (6), and then 99 episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel, The Lieutenant (4), The Virginian (2), and 96 episodes of Gunsmoke. Returning to films - directing Shenandoah (1965) and The Rare Breed (1966), both with James Stewart; The Devil's Brigade (1968), Mitchell (1975), The Wild Geese (1978), North Sea Hijack (1979), and The Sea Wolves (1980), mostly westerns, but later specializing in war or action films, his last being Return from the River Kwai (1989). He also worked many times with John Wayne in such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). He also directed The Last Hard Men (1976) which starred Charlton Heston and James Coburn. McLaglen directed films in an assortment of categories, including crime, war, historical and comedy, but he was most frequently a director of Westerns, and would be among the last of the American film directors to specialize in the Western genre. He currently resides in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington State, directing plays for San Juan Island Community Theater.
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Eye of the Widow (1989)
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. The CIA then hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out. This big budget film with many 'A' stars was barely released. In fact, despite being a U.S. production filmed in Europe, it was never widely screened theatrically in America nor did ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: F. Murray Abraham | Annabel Schofield | Ben Cross | Mel Ferrer | Richard Young
Return from the River Kwai (1989)
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Timothy Bottoms | George Takei | Edward Fox | Chris Penn | Denholm Elliott
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Ernest Borgnine | Ken Wahl | Sonny Landham | Larry Wilcox | Lee Marvin
Sahara (1983)
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: John Rhys-Davies | Lambert Wilson | Brooke Shields | Horst Buchholz | Ronald Lacey
The Shadow Riders (1982)
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Sam Elliott | Geoffrey Lewis | Ben Johnson | Tom Selleck | Dominique Dunne
The Sea Wolves (1980)
This true story follows the exploits of a top secret British military mission to destroy Nazi radio ships in a neutral harbor during WWII. The daring plan is led by British Intelligence officers Col. Lewis Pugh (Gregory Peck) and Capt. Gavin Stewart (Roger Moore). Since the ships are in neutral territory the British Military command, while encouraging the scheme, must deny any knowledge of it if it ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Trevor Howard | Gregory Peck | Roger Moore | David Niven | Barbara Kellerman
Breakthrough (1979)
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Michael Parks | Rod Steiger | Klaus Löwitsch | Richard Burton | Helmut Griem
The Wild Geese (1978)
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to ...
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Richard Harris | Roger Moore | Richard Burton | Stewart Granger | Hardy Krüger
The Last Hard Men (1976)
In the early 20th century, some convicts while on a road gang escape and one of the convicts is Zach Provo, a half Indian, who was sent to prison during the latter part of the 19th century. He escapes with 6 others to exact vengeance on Sam Burgade the lawman who not only captured him but was also responsible for the death of Provo's wife, at least in Provo's mind. Part of his plan is to kidnap Burgade's ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Barbara Hershey | Jorge Rivero | Michael Parks | Charlton Heston | James Coburn
Mitchell (1975)
A tough-guy cop (Joe Don Baker) pursues two drug runners (Martin Balsam, John Saxon) across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book development work as well as normal social graces. The film also stars John Saxon and Martin Balsam as the banking criminals Mitchell pursues and Linda Evans and ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: John Saxon | Joe Don Baker | Martin Balsam | Linda Evans | Merlin Olsen
Stowaway to the Moon (1975)
An 11 year old boy, who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, wishes he could go into space also. So of course it should be easy to get into Cape Kennedy, up the launch tower, and into the capsule. Naturally when something goes wrong on the journey, he will save the day. - Written by Brian W Martz
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Lloyd Bridges | Jim McMullan | Morgan Paull | Jeremy Slate | Michael Link
Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: George Kennedy | Neville Brand | John Wayne | Clay O'Brien | Gary Grimes
Something Big (1971)
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Honor Blackman | Ben Johnson | Brian Keith | Dean Martin | Carol White
Fools' Parade (1971)
Homer Grindstaff is a big named banker in Glory and Doc Council is a prison official and they team up to plot to kill Appleyard and his ex-convict friends who were attempting to open up a general store in Stone Coal, West Virginia and then to take the money.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Kurt Russell | George Kennedy | James Stewart | Strother Martin | Anne Baxter
One More Train to Rob (1971)
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: France Nuyen | Diana Muldaur | George Peppard | John Vernon | Steve Sandor
Chisum (1970)
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Ben Johnson | John Wayne | Christopher George | Glenn Corbett | Forrest Tucker
The Undefeated (1969)
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: John Wayne | Rock Hudson | Marian McCargo | Antonio Aguilar | Roman Gabriel
Hellfighters (1968)
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Jim Hutton | John Wayne | Katharine Ross | Vera Miles | Jay C. Flippen
Bandolero! (1968)
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Andrew Prine | George Kennedy | Raquel Welch | James Stewart | Dean Martin
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
1968 American war film about the formation and first mission of the joint Canadian-American WWII special forces winter and mountain unit formally called 1st Special Service Force, but commonly known as “The Devil’s Brigade”. The film dramatises the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the task of capturing the German mountain stronghold Monte la Difensa, in December 1943. The film ...
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Andrew Prine | Cliff Robertson | William Holden | Jeremy Slate | Vince Edwards
The Way West (1967)
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Sally Field | Kirk Douglas | Robert Mitchum | Richard Widmark | Lola Albright
Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Dean Jones | Maurice Chevalier | Yvette Mimieux | Bernard Woringer
The Ballad of Josie (1967)
A frontier widow (Doris Day) aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher (George Kennedy) in old Wyoming.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: George Kennedy | Peter Graves | Andy Devine | Doris Day | William Talman
The Rare Breed (1966)
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Don Galloway | James Stewart | Brian Keith | Juliet Mills | Maureen O'Hara
Shenandoah (1965)
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Rosemary Forsyth | Doug McClure | James Stewart | Patrick Wayne | Glenn Corbett
McLintock! (1963)
George Washington McLintock, 'GW' to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also surprised to see that his wife Katherine has also returned. She had left him some years before without really explaining what he done but she does make the point of saying ...
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: John Wayne | Jack Kruschen | Stefanie Powers | Patrick Wayne | Maureen O'Hara
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come (1961)
Director Andrew V. McLaglen's 1961 drama, based on John William Fox's novel, is the tale of a young man returning home after fighting in the Civil War. The cast includes Jimmie Rodgers, Luana Patten, Chill Wills, George Kennedy, Neil Hamilton and Morris Ankrum.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Chill Wills | Luana Patten | Robert Dix | Jimmie Rodgers | Linda Hutchings
Freckles (1960)
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Roy Barcroft | Jack Lambert | Martin West | Steve Peck | Carol Christensen
The Abductors (1957)
Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Fay Spain | Victor McLaglen | George Macready | Gavin Muir | John Morley
Man in the Vault (1956)
A locksmith is pressured into crime when the mob makes him perform an elaborate bank robbery.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Berry Kroeger | Anita Ekberg | Paul Fix | William Campbell | Karen Sharpe
Gun The Man Down (1956)
An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with one thing on his mind: Revenge.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Angie Dickinson | Emile Meyer | Robert J. Wilke | James Arness | Harry Carey, Jr.