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Alan Rafkin is a Director American born on 23 july 1928 at New York City (USA)
Alan Rafkin (July 23, 1928 – August 6, 2001) was an American Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and actor for television.
Alan Rafkin was one of the most prolific sitcom directors of all time, directing such series as The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Murphy Brown, Get Smart, Coach, The Tim Conway Show, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, and Viva Valdez.
According to his autobiography Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow (its title is taken from a direction on Captain Kangaroo), Rafkin directed episodes of over 80 different sitcom series. He won an Emmy for an episode of "One Day At A Time" and two CableACE Awards for his work on "It's Garry Shandling's Show". During his career he worked with legendary producers such as Sheldon Leonard, Danny Thomas, and Norman Lear. Rafkin had endearing relationships with many of his actors including Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Redd Foxx. At the same time he had volatile relationships with several others including Demond Wilson and Craig T.
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Birth name Alfred Irwin Rafkin
Nationality USA
Birth 23 july 1928 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 august 2001 (at 73 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Emmy Award
Nationality USA
Birth 23 july 1928 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 august 2001 (at 73 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Emmy Award
Biography
Born in New York City, Rafkin attended Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey' Syracuse University in New York.Alan Rafkin was one of the most prolific sitcom directors of all time, directing such series as The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Murphy Brown, Get Smart, Coach, The Tim Conway Show, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, and Viva Valdez.
According to his autobiography Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow (its title is taken from a direction on Captain Kangaroo), Rafkin directed episodes of over 80 different sitcom series. He won an Emmy for an episode of "One Day At A Time" and two CableACE Awards for his work on "It's Garry Shandling's Show". During his career he worked with legendary producers such as Sheldon Leonard, Danny Thomas, and Norman Lear. Rafkin had endearing relationships with many of his actors including Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Redd Foxx. At the same time he had volatile relationships with several others including Demond Wilson and Craig T.
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Let's Switch! (1975)
Directed by Alan Rafkin
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Eden, Barbara Feldon, George Furth, Barra Grant, Penny Marshall, Richard Schaal
Rating64%
Lacy Colbert (Barbara Eden), a housewife, and her best friend Kate Fleming (Barbara Feldon), a glamorous magazine editor, decide to switch lifestyles which creates chaos.
How to Frame a Figg (1971)
, 1h43Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Don Knotts, Johnny Flynn, Joe Flynn, Yvonne Craig, Edward Andrews, Eddie Quillan
Rating63%
Hollis Figg is an earnest if not too bright man whose devoted friend is a local sanitation worker, and whose girlfriend is the equally earnest Ema, a pretty waitress at the diner across the street from City Hall, where Figg works as an accountant. When the Mayor, his staff, and Mr. Spaulding, the richest man in town, decide they need more cover for their shameless skimming from the city's coffers, they fire two of the three accountants in the basement and replace them with a computer named LEO (Large-Capacity Enumerating Officiator), keeping Figg whom they deem the dimmest of the three to run the computer that he barely comprehends. When Figg unexpectedly (and quite accidentally) stumbles upon discrepancies in a road works budget, they promote him to the "third floor," distract him with a new Cadillac and a sexy assistant (Yvonne Craig) who is able to manipulate him into signing any form or check that she places on his desk. Of course the curvaceous secretary doesn't sit too well with Ema, either.
Angel in My Pocket (1969)
, 1h45Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Andy Griffith, Lee Meriwether, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Henry Jones, Edgar Buchanan
Rating69%
The Reverend Samuel D. Whitehead, ex-Marine, bricklayer, and recent seminary graduate, is ecstatic to receive his first "calling," or assignment as Pastor of his own church. But the Church of the Redeemer in Wood Falls, Kansas, will prove a challenging assignment and nearly his undoing.
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
, 1h41Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Burt Mustin, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt
Rating62%
Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. As a "city slicker", he finds himself bungling in a new environment.
Nobody's Perfect (1968)
, 1h43Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Doug McClure, Nancy Kwan, James Whitmore, James Garner, David Hartman, Gary Vinson
Rating66%
A US Navy submarine rescue ship's crew has taken a Buddha statue from a Japanese village as souvenir. If the theft is discovered, it would threaten Japanese/American relations. The protagonist is one of the ship's chief petty officers who tries to stay out of trouble with his tough captain, return the statue and woo a US Navy Nurse of Japanese-American descent.
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)
, 1h30Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Don Knotts, Liam Redmond, Joan Staley, Sandra Gould, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier
Rating71%
Luther Heggs is a typesetter at the newspaper in Rachel, Kansas, but aspires to be a reporter. One night, observing what he believes to be a murder outside of an old, supposedly haunted house known as the Simmons Mansion, Heggs rushes to the police station with his scoop. Unfortunately, as he relates the details of his story to the Chief of Police, the murder "victim" walks into the room, a local drunk who had merely been whacked unconscious by his irate wife, who had brought him in to be locked up. The next morning, Heggs walks downstairs to the dining room at the Natalie Miller boarding house and overhears Ollie Weaver (Homeier), a full-time reporter at the newspaper, mocking his mistakes of the night before; Ollie is also dating Heggs' love interest, Alma Parker (Joan Staley). According to local lore, the Simmons Mansion was a "murder house" (murder and suicide) 20 years earlier, when Mr. Simmons murdered his wife (with some unknown sharp instrument that was never located - ultimately revealed to be a pair of gardener's pruning shears), and then jumped to his death from the organ loft. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Simmons can still occasionally be heard playing the organ at midnight.
Ski Party (1965)
, 1h30Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Sports films, Musical films
Actors Frankie Avalon, Yvonne Craig, Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Aron Kincaid, Dick Miller
Rating52%
Todd Armstrong (Avalon) and Craig Gamble (Hickman) are California college undergraduates who unsuccessfully date co-eds Linda Hughes (Deborah Walley) and Barbara Norris (Yvonne Craig). Arrogant, handsome, athletic classmate Freddie (Aron Kincaid) has no such problems and chooses not to fight off all the women chasing after him. As president of the Ski Club, Freddie organizes a midterm vacation trip to ski country (in gorgeous Sawtooth National Forest) in Idaho. Although they know nothing about skiing, Todd and Craig follow Linda and Barbara on this bus trip, to try to learn "the secret of Freddie's technique".