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Don Weis is a Director, Writer, Script Supervisor, Dialogue Editor and Dialogue Coach American born on 13 may 1922 at Milwaukee

Don Weis

Don Weis
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Nationality USA
Birth 13 may 1922 at Milwaukee
Death 26 july 2000 (at 78 years) at Santa Fe (USA)

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.
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Jerry Hausner
Jerry Hausner
(4 films)
Peter Lawford
Peter Lawford
(3 films)
Barbara Ruick
Barbara Ruick
(3 films)
Lewis Stone
Lewis Stone
(4 films)
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Filmography of Don Weis (27 films)

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Director

You for Me
You for Me (1952)
, 1h11
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jane Greer, Peter Lawford, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Barbara Ruick, Barbara Brown
Rating57% 2.85692.85692.85692.85692.8569
A nurse, Katie (Jane Greer), must decide whether she should marry for love or money. She is pursued by Tony, a wealthy but irresponsible sportsman, and Jeff, a handsome, if conventional, doctor. Tony's ex-wife complicates matters.
Just This Once
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Douglas Fowley, Richard Anderson, Phyllis Kirk
Rating62% 3.143463.143463.143463.143463.14346
Mark MacLene IV is a millionaire playboy. He is totally irresponsible with his money, piling up $5 million in debts. Judge Coulter, executor of his estate, puts Mark's finances in the hands of a penny-pinching lawyer, Lucy Duncan.
It's a Big Country, 1h29
Directed by Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, William A. Wellman, Charles Vidor, Clarence Brown, Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Anthology film
Actors Gary Cooper, Ethel Barrymore, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Fredric March
Rating59% 2.999222.999222.999222.999222.99922
A professor traveling on a train overhears a fellow passenger make a comment about "America". The professor then asks: "Which America?" This provides a lead-in for multiple tales of American life. There is the tale of Mrs. Riordan, an elderly lady from Boston. She is upset about not having been counted in the 1950 census. She asks a newspaper editor named Callaghan to intervene on her behalf, and he makes the mistake of not taking her seriously.

Scriptwriter

You for Me
You for Me (1952)
, 1h11
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jane Greer, Peter Lawford, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Barbara Ruick, Barbara Brown
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.85692.85692.85692.85692.8569
A nurse, Katie (Jane Greer), must decide whether she should marry for love or money. She is pursued by Tony, a wealthy but irresponsible sportsman, and Jeff, a handsome, if conventional, doctor. Tony's ex-wife complicates matters.

Director

The Prowler, 1h32
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy, Madge Blake, Wheaton Chambers
Roles Script Supervisor
Rating70% 3.545363.545363.545363.545363.54536
Webb Garwood, a disgruntled cop, is called to investigate a voyeur by Susan Gilvray. Her husband works nights as an overnight radio personality. The cop falls in love with the young and attractive married woman.
M
M (1951)
, 1h28
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr
Roles Script Supervisor
Rating67% 3.3926453.3926453.3926453.3926453.392645
In this Americanized remake of the 1931 German film of the same name, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children.
The Red Pony, 1h29
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about families, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Peter Miles, Margaret Hamilton
Roles Script Supervisor
Rating62% 3.145983.145983.145983.145983.14598
A young boy, Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden. During a rain storm the pony gets out of the stable and having been soaked becomes fevered. Despite Buck's best efforts to nurse the pony it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Tom follows the pony's hoof prints to a gully where it has died and is being eaten by vultures.
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Mrs. Mike
Mrs. Mike (1949)
, 1h39
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J. M. Kerrigan, Will Wright, Angela Clarke, John Miljan
Roles Script Supervisor
Rating65% 3.2803153.2803153.2803153.2803153.280315
A young Boston woman, Kathy O'Fallon, travels north to visit her Uncle John at his cabin near the Canadian border. While there she meets Mike Flannigan, a sergeant with the Canadian Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and before long they're in love. Kathy marries Mike, who takes her by dogsled to his outpost in the cold, remote north.

Sound

No Minor Vices, 1h36
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, Louis Jourdan, Jane Wyatt, Norman Lloyd, Bernard Gorcey
Roles Dialogue Editor
Rating56% 2.8149852.8149852.8149852.8149852.814985
Successful dentist Perry Ashwell (Dana Andrews) takes his attractive wife April (Lilli Palmer) and their conservative lifestyle for granted. When he allows artists Octavio Quaglini (Louis Jourdan) into their lives to sketch their "inner selves", Octavio becomes enamoured with April and tries to steal her away from Perry.

Team

The Men
The Men (1950)
, 1h25
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman, Dorothy Tree
Roles Dialogue Coach
Rating70% 3.5475753.5475753.5475753.5475753.547575
Ken is a young infantry lieutenant who leads his platoon through an embattled European town, and advances into an open square and a shot rings out. He is hit in the lower back and in an instant a robust young man is made paraplegic for the rest of his life. In the hospital, Ken is a sullen and resentful patient, and in feeling sorry for himself he finds no sympathy from his fellow paraplegics, including Norm, a bitter and caustic man, and Leo, a happy go lucky patient who smokes cigars and bets on horses.
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