Don Weis

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Don Weis (born May 13, 1922 in Milwaukee , United States , † July 26, 2000 in Santa Fe , United States) was an American director in film and television.

Live and act

Weis studied from 1942 at the University of Southern California and got his first film job as a delivery boy at Warner Brothers . During the Second World War, he served in the American military as a technician in the First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army Air Corps. Back in civilian life, Don Weis began as a dialogue director and screenplay supervisor and was involved in this role in 1946, for example, in the famous film noir from the boxer milieu Hunt for Millions . Weis was also involved in the same role in another boxer drama, Between Women and Ropes , which was created two years later . After working as a script supervisor on Joseph Losey's early productions at the beginning of the 1950s , One Sings No Songs for Satan and M , MGM left Don Weis directing the low-budgeted strip Bannerline in 1951 .

Commissions for secondary films followed and, from 1954, for an abundance of television productions, which showed Weis to be a hardworking but artistically completely unambitious assembly line worker. Weis contributed a myriad of episodes to series, including popular audience magnets in Germany such as Dezernat M , Checkmate , Polizeirevier 87 , Alfred Hitchcock presents , Amos Burke , Batman , your appearance, Al Mundy , Eddie's father , Der Chef , Der Nachtjäger , Starsky & Hutch , MASH , Hawaii Five-Zero , Fantasy Island , Love Boat , Remington Steele, and Hill Street Police Station . He received a DGA Award for two works in 1956 (for Little Guy ) and 1958 (for The Lonely Wizard Steinmetz ) . Another nomination followed in 1960. In between, Don Weis continued to direct one or the other feature film as well as several individual films for television. In 1990 the director withdrew into private life.

Filmography

Only single productions for the cinema, unless otherwise stated

  • 1951: Bannerline
  • 1951: It'sa Big Country (Co-Director)
  • 1951: A Letter From a Soldier (short film)
  • 1952: Just This Once
  • 1952: You for Me
  • 1952: Photographer out of love (I Love Melvin)
  • 1953: A corpse on prescription (Remains to bei Seen)
  • 1953: A Slight Case of Larceny
  • 1953: The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
  • 1953: Half a Hero
  • 1954: The Adventures of Hajji Baba
  • 1956: Ride the High Iron
  • 1959: Catch Me If You Can
  • 1959: Jazz Ecstasy (The Gene Krupa Story)
  • 1961: Rio (TV movie)
  • 1962: Don't do that, Angelika (Critic's Choice)
  • 1964: I would love to be in love (Looking for Love)
  • 1964: Pajama party
  • 1965: Billie
  • 1966: Inheritance at midnight (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini)
  • 1966: The Longest Hundred Miles
  • 1967: The King's Pirate
  • 1968: Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?
  • 1968: Once You See It - Once You Don't (Now You See It, Now You Don't) (TV Movie)
  • 1974: The Fess Parker Show (TV short film)
  • 1974: Crackle of Death (TV movie)
  • 1975: Demon and the Mummy (Co-Director, TV Movie)
  • 1976: Flo's Place (TV movie)
  • 1978: Zero to Sixty
  • 1978: The Millionaire (TV movie)
  • 1979: The Dooley Brothers (TV movie)
  • 1980: Back to the Planet of the Apes (TV movie)
  • 1981: The Return of the Frankenstein Family (The Munsters' Revenge) (TV Movie)

literature

  • International Television Almanac 1985, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1985, p. 254
  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 1446
  • International Motion Picture Almanac 2001, Quigley Publishing Company, Larchmont, New York 2001, p. 436

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personal data
SURNAME Weis, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2000
Place of death Santa Fe , United States