Don Weis

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1922-05-13

Deathday 2000-07-26 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Don Weis

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Don Weis (May 13, 1922 - July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director. Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as Bannerline (1951), Just This Once (1952), You for Me (1952) and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953). Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others. Weis won two Directors Guild of America Awards for television direction in 1956 and again in 1958. Weis died in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 78 years of age. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Weis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

1989
Brand New Life

as Director

1988
1988
Murphy's Law

as Director

1986
The Wizard

as Director

1985
MacGyver

as Director

1985
Eye to Eye

as Director

1984
Crazy like a Fox

as Director

1984
Cover Up

as Director

1984
Partners in Crime

as Director

1983
Lottery!

as Director

1982
Remington Steele

as Director

1982
T. J. Hooker

as Director

1982
Matt Houston

as Director

1982
Cagney & Lacey

as Director

1982
1981
1981
Hill Street Blues

as Director

1981
Flamingo Road

as Director

1981
Simon & Simon

as Director

1981
Code Red

as Director

1980
Beyond Westworld

as Director

1980
1979
Delta House

as Director

1978
The Millionaire

as Director

1978
Zero to Sixty

as Director

1978
Fantasy Island

as Director

1977
CHiPs

as Director

1977
The Love Boat

as Director

1977
1976
1976
Crackle of Death

as Director

1976
Charlie's Angels

as Director

1976
Spencer's Pilots

as Director

1975
Baretta

as Director

1975
S.W.A.T.

as Director

1975
Starsky & Hutch

as Director

1975
Barbary Coast

as Director

1975
Bronk

as Director

1975
Matt Helm

as Director

1974
Planet of the Apes

as Director

1974
Happy Days

as Director

1974
Firehouse

as Director

1974
Petrocelli

as Director

1973
The Magician

as Director

1972
M*A*S*H

as Director

1970
The Immortal

as Director

1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Director

1967
The King's Pirate

as Director

1967
Ironside

as Director

1967
Mannix

as Director

1967
1966
Batman

as Director

1965
Billie

as Director

1964
Pajama Party

as Director

1964
Looking for Love

as Director

1964
The Munsters

as Director

1963
Critic's Choice

as Director

1963
Burke's Law

as Director

1963
1963
1963
Vacation Playhouse

as Director

1963
Channing

as Director

1962
The Virginian

as Director

1961
87th Precinct

as Director

1961
1961
Alcoa Premiere

as Director

1960
1960
Checkmate

as Director

1959
1959
The Twilight Zone

as Director

1959
1959
The Detectives

as Director

1959
1957
Perry Mason

as Director

1957
The Thin Man

as Director

1957
M Squad

as Director

1957
Mr. Adams and Eve

as Director

1956
Ride The High Iron

as Director

1955
1954
Dear Phoebe

as Director

1954
Studio 57

as Director

1953
I Love Melvin

as Director

1953
1953
Half a Hero

as Director

1953
Remains to Be Seen

as Director

1953
Skip Taylor

as Director

1953
1952
You for Me

as Director

1952
Just This Once

as Director

1951
It's a Big Country

as Director

1951
Bannerline

as Director

1951
M

as Script Supervisor

1951
The Prowler

as Script Supervisor

1949
Mrs. Mike

as Script Supervisor

1949
The Red Pony

as Script Supervisor

Writer

1952
You for Me

as Writer

Sound

1948
No Minor Vices

as Dialogue Editor

Crew

1950
The Men

as Dialogue Coach