Jud Taylor
Judson Taylor (February 25, 1932 – August 6, 2008) was an American actor, television director, and television producer.
Works
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Release Date: 1999-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 3934
Clover
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's friends and relatives object to her being Clover's guardian.
Release Date: 1997-09-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
A Holiday to Remember
Compassionate holiday romancer with Connie Sellecca as a divorced mother who takes young daughter Asia Vieira to her small South Carolina hometown in order to start a new life. Once there, Connie has trouble getting ready for Christmas as Randy Travis, her former boyfriend comes calling, and a runaway boy and social worker take up a lot of her and her daughter's attention. With Rue McClanahan, Don McManus. Based on Kathleen Creighton's "A Christmas Love.
Release Date: 1995-12-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Secrets
Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their daughter. Her granddaughter is the family's maid. When a visiting friend of Etta's arrives for a visit both she and the maid are attracted to him. When he seems to prefer the younger woman (the maid) the other woman is very jealous and when the maid becomes pregnant by him the older woman vows to make that child her own.
Release Date: 1995-05-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Guinevere
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Release Date: 1994-05-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
Release Date: 1993-05-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.
Release Date: 1993-01-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 53
In My Daughter's Name
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Release Date: 1992-05-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Kung Fu - A Legend Reborn
Father and son are reunited after 15 years. A old rival from the Shaolin Temple has taken over Chinatown and intends to assassinate the mayor. Peter and Caine must work together to stop him.
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Kaleidoscope
A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from the Big Apple to Beantown to the City of Light. His investigation, however, opens the door to disturbing revelations about a forgotten past.
Release Date: 1990-10-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Murder Times Seven
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the investigation Janek finds out that Kiley worked for counterintelligence.
Release Date: 1990-10-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Old Man and the Sea
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Release Date: 1990-03-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 27
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
A former POW leads a special task force to hunt down the culprits responsible for carrying out the orders to murder 50 of the 76 escapees from Stalag Luft III.
Release Date: 1988-11-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Release Date: 1988-11-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
Foxfire
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Release Date: 1987-12-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
Broken Vows
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and fascinated by the man's saintly demeanor, Father Joseph's curiosity is redoubled when a beautiful young woman enters his church to question the young priest about the deceased man. Father Joseph and the woman, whom he discovers to be the "Nim" in question, embark upon an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man's death.
Release Date: 1987-01-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
License to Kill
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of jail and still on the streets as a legal driver. When the judge is forced to rule time and again in favor of the defense, it appears that the driver might escape punishment altogether.
Release Date: 1986-12-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 37
Doubletake
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Release Date: 1985-11-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Out of the Darkness
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.
Release Date: 1985-10-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Packin' It In
In quest of a wholesome place to live: at first the Webbers laugh at their neighbors when they leave L.A. for the mountains of Oregon. But when they recognize the same symptoms in their family that made the neighbors leave, they follow them. However their new domicile is a bit more apart from the civilization than expected. Even then it's not a paradise: their neighbors are weird, the next shop is miles away and their house lacks even the most basic comfort. How long will it take until they're packin' it in again?
Release Date: 1983-02-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
A Question of Honor
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
Release Date: 1982-04-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Incident at Crestridge
A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.
Release Date: 1981-12-29
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1
Act of Love
A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life of limited mobility and function, the young man finds his own life weighed down by his thoughts and feelings about the accident. Motivated by his emotions and the suffering of his brother, the young man performs an "act of love" which creates more chaos for him.
Release Date: 1980-09-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
City in Fear
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.
Release Date: 1980-03-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Flesh & Blood
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Release Date: 1979-10-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused; a teacher who saw these children for who they were, rather than who they seemed to be.
Release Date: 1978-12-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
The Last Tenant
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
Release Date: 1978-06-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
Release Date: 1977-12-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
Lou Grant
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
Release Date: 1977-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 26
Tail Gunner Joe
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Release Date: 1977-02-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Mary White
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at age 16, and the powerful effect the tragedy had on the life of her father.
Release Date: 1977-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Woman of the Year
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
Release Date: 1976-07-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Return to Earth
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
Release Date: 1976-05-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Future Cop
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been programmed by the police lab.
Release Date: 1976-05-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Search for the Gods
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
Release Date: 1975-03-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test, the jet picks up three blips on radar, and subsequently, two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. At this point, Flight 412 is monitored and forced to land by Digger Control, a top-level, military intelligence group that debunks UFO information. The intrepid colonel, kept in the dark about his crew, decides to investigate the matter himself.
Release Date: 1974-10-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 21
Winter Kill
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Release Date: 1974-04-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Fade In
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Release Date: 1973-11-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Tenafly
Tenafly is a crime-drama series that was part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel for the 1973-74 season. It was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, the creators of popular mystery television shows such as Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. It was the one of the first television series that season to star an African-American character as the main protagonist. Due to low ratings, Tenafly only lasted one season.
Release Date: 1973-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Hawkins
Hawkins is a television series which aired for one season on CBS between 1973 and 1974. The mystery, created by Robert Hamner and David Karp, starred James Stewart as rural-bred lawyer Billy Jim Hawkins, who investigated the cases he was involved in, similarly to Stewart's earlier smash hit movie Anatomy of a Murder. Despite being critically well received and winning a Golden Globe Award, the series was cancelled after one season consisting of seven 90-minute episodes. Stewart requested the cancellation since he believed that the quality of scripts and directors in television could not continuously measure up to the level to which he was accustomed with theatrical films. Seen as part of The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies, it alternated with the TV movie adaptations of Shaft. Contemporary analysts suggested that since the two shows appealed to vastly different audience bases, alternating them only served to confuse fans of both series, giving neither one the time to build up a large viewership.
Release Date: 1973-03-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 4
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, she must fight a battle on two fronts: against the medical conditions endangering her patients and against sexism toward a female doctor.
Release Date: 1972-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
The Rookies
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.
Release Date: 1972-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 20
The Rookies
Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week before becoming a TV-series.
Release Date: 1972-03-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Revenge!
A deranged mother avenges herself on the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
Release Date: 1971-11-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Suddenly Single
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
Release Date: 1971-10-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Longstreet
Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.
Release Date: 1971-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 10
Weekend of Terror
Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
Release Date: 1970-12-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Love, American Style
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
Release Date: 1969-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 17
Then Came Bronson
Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film.
Release Date: 1969-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 4
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.
Release Date: 1969-09-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Mannix
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
Release Date: 1967-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 52
Judd for the Defense
High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
Release Date: 1967-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series
Release Date: 1967-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 8
The Second Hundred Years
The Second Hundred Years is an American sitcom starring Monte Markham which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967 to March 28, 1968.
Release Date: 1967-09-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Captain Nice
Carter Nash was a chemist in a police department who discovered a liquid which could turn him into Captain Nice, an odd sort of superhero: very shy and dominated by his mother. Captain Nice flew (he feared heights) in his tattered leotards, fighting bad guys because his mother told him to do so.
Release Date: 1967-01-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
T.H.E. Cat
T.H.E. Cat is an American action drama that aired during the 1966-1967 television season on NBC, co-sponsored by R.J. Reynolds and Lever Brothers. The series was created by Harry Julian Fink, the creator of Dirty Harry . Robert Loggia starred as the title character, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat. T. H. E. Cat is a forerunner of television characters such as The Equalizer, who skirt the edges of the law and bring skills from earlier careers on behalf of those needing more help than the police can offer. The series preceded the 1968-1970 ABC television series It Takes a Thief, which was also about a cat burglar who used his skills for good.
Release Date: 1966-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.
Release Date: 1966-09-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Felony Squad
Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.
Release Date: 1966-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
Shane
Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and other perils plaguing the Old West.
Release Date: 1966-09-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
Star Trek
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Release Date: 1966-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 1334
The Fugitive
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
Release Date: 1963-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Toby Weems
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 56
The Great Escape
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Release Date: 1963-07-03
Character: Goff
Vote Count: 2623
The Interns
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
Release Date: 1962-08-08
Character: Dr. Van Wyck
Vote Count: 7
Dr. Kildare
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Release Date: 1961-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Dr. Thomas Gerson
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 18
The Garment Jungle
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
Release Date: 1957-05-01
Character: Latzo (uncredited)
Vote Count: 25
Attack
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
Release Date: 1956-09-19
Character: Jacob R. Abramowitz
Vote Count: 127
Johnny Moccasin
Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre.
Release Date: 1956-06-06
Character: Jud Johnson
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Release Date: 1955-09-10
Character: Ed Thorpe
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 102
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Release Date: 1951-12-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7