Emerging from Los Angeles, California, Gary Nelson built a versatile directing career that spanned both television and cinema. He helmed episodes of iconic series such as Get Smart, Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Patty Duke Show, Gilligan’s Island and Happy Days, while also moving into feature films with titles like Disney’s Freaky Friday (1976) and The Black Hole (1979). His work on the po… Read more
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Known for The Black Hole 1979 Get Smart 1965 Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold 1986 Freaky Friday 1976 Series ★ 8 Get Smart 1965
Series ★ 7.6 The Andy Griffith Show 1960
Series ★ 7.4 Gilligan's Island 1964
Series ★ 7.4 Early Edition 1996
Series ★ 7.3 Kojak 1973
★ 9.7 For Love and Honor 1983
Series ★ 7.3 Have Gun, Will Travel 1957
Series ★ 8.2 Hunter 1977
★ 7.6 Murder Me, Murder You 1983
★ 10 Fast Company 1995
★ 10 Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice 1994
★ 10 The Sands of Time 1992
★ 10 Revolver 1992
★ 10 The Hit Man 1991
★ 10 It's a Mile from Here to Glory 1978
★ 10 Panache 1976
★ 10 The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou 1971
Series ★ 10 O.K. Crackerby 1965
Series ★ 7.8 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1982
Series ★ 7.8 Washington: Behind Closed Doors 1977
★ 8 A Movie Star's Daughter 1979
Series ★ 8 Occasional Wife 1966
★ 9 Melanie Darrow 1997
★ 9 Police Story: The Watch Commander 1988
★ 8 Secrets of the Pirate's Inn 1969
Series ★ 7.7 McClain's Law 1981
Series ★ 7.7 Archer 1975
★ 8 The Baron and the Kid 1984
Series ★ 8 To Kill a Cop 1978
Series ★ 7.5 Adam's Rib 1973
Series ★ 7.5 Bracken's World 1969
Series ★ 7.2 Crazy like a Fox 1984
Series ★ 7.1 Noble House 1988
★ 7.1 Murder in Coweta County 1983
Series ★ 7.1 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 1964
★ 7 Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder 1995
★ 7 Medical Story 1975
Series ★ 7 Faraday and Company 1973
Series ★ 7 Born Free 1974
The Partners 1971
Series ★ 6.5 The Partners 1971
Series ★ 6.5 Accidental Family 1967
Series ★ 7 Police Story 1973
Series ★ 6.7 Toma 1973
Series ★ 6.4 Captain Nice 1967
★ 6.1 Jimmy the Kid 1982
★ 6.7 The Boy Who Talked to Badgers 1975
For Love and Honor 1983
Series ★ 6 For Love and Honor 1983
Series ★ 6.4 Good Morning World 1967
★ 6.2 Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert 1993
Series ★ 6.2 The Nutt House 1989
Series ★ 6.2 The Brian Keith Show 1972
Series ★ 6.7 Nanny and the Professor 1970
★ 6.2 Shooter 1988
Series ★ 6.9 McMillan & Wife 1971
Series ★ 5.3 Arnie 1970
Series ★ 5 Medical Story 1975
Series ★ 5.5 Houston Knights 1987
Series ★ 6.6 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir 1968
★ 5.5 The Girl on the Late, Late Show 1974
Series ★ 6.2 The Doris Day Show 1968
★ 3.7 The Lookalike 1990
Series ★ 4.8 Memories of Midnight 1991
★ 5.4 The Pride of Jesse Hallam 1981
Series ★ 6.3 The Patty Duke Show 1963
★ 5.6 More Than Murder 1984
Series ★ 6.2 The Courtship of Eddie's Father 1969
Series ★ 6.2 Love, American Style 1969
★ 5.5 Santee 1973
Series ★ 6.1 Room 222 1969
★ 5.1 The Return of Ironside 1993
Series ★ 6.2 F Troop 1965
★ 3.3 Molly and Lawless John 1972
Series ★ 6.7 Gunsmoke 1955
★ 5.5 Get Smart, Again! 1989
★ 6 Murder in Three Acts 1986
★ 6.1 Freaky Friday 1976
★ 4.9 Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold 1986
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