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Boris Sagal
Highest Rated:   65% The Omega Man (1971)
Lowest Rated:   65% The Omega Man (1971)
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Birthplace:   Dnepropetrovsk, Russia (now Ukraine)
Russian-born, Yale-educated American director Boris Sagal was primarily a director of TV movies, varying in both quality and originality. Even his few theatrical films featured TV actors for the most part. He worked frequently with Lorne Greene, Shelley Fabares, David McCallum, Jim Davis, etc., although he had a penchant for using veteran screen actors (Claude Rains, Myrna Loy, Edward G. Robinson) in featured roles. With a few exceptions (Dime with a Halo and The Greatest Gift) Sagal's films reflect a seeming preoccupation with tension and violence. His least successful effort was probably The Failing of Raymond (1971, "Film looks as though it was directed by hypnosis" -Leonard Maltin), but his best films are not half bad: Destiny of a Spy (1969): a memorable episode of Night Gallery (the pilot film, 1969)! Indict and Convict (1973), A Case of Rape (1974), and The Greatest Gift (1974). Sagal also co-directed (with Melville Shavelson) the verv successful TV mini-series Ike (1978). Sagal was killed during a mishap in the filming of World War 3.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING TITLE CREDIT BOX OFFICE YEAR
No Score Yet Dial M for Murder
  • Director
— 1981
No Score Yet The Diary Of Anne Frank
  • Director
— 1980
No Score Yet Angela
  • Director
— 1978
No Score Yet Awakening Land
  • Director
— 1978
No Score Yet Ike: The War Years
  • Director
— 1978
No Score Yet Sherlock Holmes in New York
  • Director
— 1976
No Score Yet The Runaway Barge
  • Producer
  • Director
— 1975
No Score Yet The Greatest Gift
  • Director
— 1974
No Score Yet Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle
  • Director
— 1972
No Score Yet Scarecrow
  • Director
— 1972
65% The Omega Man
  • Director
— 1971
No Score Yet Hitched
  • Director
— 1971
No Score Yet Mosquito Squadron
  • Director
— 1970
No Score Yet Night Gallery
  • Director
— 1969
No Score Yet The Thousand Plane Raid
  • Director
— 1969
No Score Yet Operation Heartbeat
  • Director
— 1969
No Score Yet The Helicopter Spies
  • Director
— 1968
No Score Yet Made in Paris
  • Director
— 1966
No Score Yet Girl Happy
  • Director
— 1965
No Score Yet Guns of Diablo
  • Director
— 1964
No Score Yet Twilight of Honor
  • Director
— 1963
No Score Yet Dime With a Halo
  • Director
— 1963
No Score Yet The World's Greatest Showman: The Legend of Cecil B. DeMille
  • Director
—

TV

RATING TITLE CREDIT YEAR
No Score Yet Mrs. Columbo
1979
  • Director
  • 1979
No Score Yet Ironside
1967-1975
  • Director
  • 1974
No Score Yet Columbo
1968-2003
  • Director
  • 1973
  • 1972
100% The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
1964-1968
  • Director
  • 1967
No Score Yet The Eleventh Hour
1962-1964
  • Director
  • 1963
  • 1962
No Score Yet Dr. Kildare
1961-1966
  • Director
  • 1963
  • 1962
  • 1961
No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
  • Director
  • 1962
  • 1961
82% The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
  • Director
  • 1961
  • 1960
No Score Yet Night Gallery
1970-1973
  • Director

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