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Richard Michaels

Director
Richard Michaels is an American television director and producer whose career spanned several decades, particularly from the 1960s through the 1990s. He is best known for directing over 50 episodes of the classic sitcom Bewitched (1964–1972), significantly contributing to its enduring popularity. Michaels also directed television movies such as ...And Your Name Is Jonah (1979) and Homeward Bound (1980). His work is characterized by a keen sense of comedic timing and a deep understanding of television production.

15-02-1936

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Aquarius

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Total Films

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Brooklyn, New York, United States

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producer

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director

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Father and Scout

Father and Scout

A father gets a crash course in the outdoors in this made for television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way through a series of mishaps.
4.4

Year:

1994

Miss America: Behind the Crown

Miss America: Behind the Crown

Carolyn Sapp, Miss America 1992 (and a non-actress), plays herself in this drama based on her personal story of abuse and betrayal at the hands of the man she loved, Nu'u Fa'aola, a Samoan pro-football player for the New York Jets.
0.0

Year:

1992

Backfield in Motion

Backfield in Motion

When Nancy and her teenage son move to Deerview, the small, old-fashioned community will never be the same. Nancy soon realizes she is the only woman in town who would rather crack a joke than an egg. But the town gets their biggest laugh when Nancy organizes a mother-son football game with the unathletic housewives.
4.4

Year:

1991

A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on Bell's relationship with a father-less handicapped boy, and his efforts to be a big brother to him. The boy ends up being an inspiration for Bell when his disease makes the athlete more afflicted than the boy.
5.1

Year:

1991

Her Wicked Ways

Her Wicked Ways

A young reporter forces her way into a veteran newswoman's life.
3.8

Year:

1991

Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean

Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean

Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
6.0

Year:

1990

Love and Betrayal

Love and Betrayal

Caroline Landry's husband has a sudden mid-life crisis and their idealistic 20-year marriage breaks apart when he leaves her for a younger woman. With the help of her friends and children, Caroline learns to pick herself up again and do the impossible - move on with her life.
0.0

Year:

1989

Indiscreet

Indiscreet

A British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood.
2.0

Year:

1988

Red River

Red River

Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
5.6

Year:

1988

Rockabye

Rockabye

A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the bus in New York City on her way to Vermont, and reluctantly accepts the help of a hard-nosed reporter in tracking him down after being given the runaround from the police.
7.8

Year:

1986

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story

The film details the life of Ray Mancini, a World Boxing Association world lightweight champion boxer from 1982 to 1984, Hollywood actor and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
4.0

Year:

1985

Silence of the Heart

Silence of the Heart

A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.
7.7

Year:

1984

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
0.0

Year:

1983

Blue Skies Again

Blue Skies Again

A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.
5.2

Year:

1983

The Children Nobody Wanted

The Children Nobody Wanted

True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
6.2

Year:

1981

Berlin Tunnel 21

Berlin Tunnel 21

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
6.5

Year:

1981

Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound

The relationship among a divorced man, his incurably ill teenage son, and his long-estranged father is explored when the youngster joins his dad for one final summer vacation and they end up at the grandfather's vineyard where he reconciles the two older men.
1.0

Year:

1980

Scared Straight! Another Story

Scared Straight! Another Story

A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.
0.0

Year:

1980

The Plutonium Incident

The Plutonium Incident

A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
5.0

Year:

1980

Once Upon a Family

Once Upon a Family

A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children.
0.0

Year:

1980

...And Your Name Is Jonah

...And Your Name Is Jonah

A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.
6.6

Year:

1979

My Husband Is Missing

My Husband Is Missing

A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Canadian correspondent on the trail of a human interest story.
6.0

Year:

1978

Leave Yesterday Behind

Leave Yesterday Behind

A happy-go-lucky veterinary student, paralyzed for life in a college polo meet, finds love with a young woman who leaves her fiancée to help him overcome his handicap.
6.2

Year:

1978

Having Babies II

Having Babies II

The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
6.0

Year:

1977

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
6.0

Year:

1977

How Come Nobody's on Our Side?

How Come Nobody's on Our Side?

Two unemployed stuntmen smuggle marijuana out of Mexico. Early embarassing roles by Reiner and Marshall!
5.8

Year:

1974

Lonely are the Brave

Lonely are the Brave

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
7.3

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1962

The Young Philadelphians

The Young Philadelphians

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
7.5

Year:

1959

The Hired Gun

The Hired Gun

A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
5.5

Year:

1957

Dino

Dino

A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
7.2

Year:

1957