James L. Conway

James L. Conway (born October 27, 1950 in New York City, U.S.) is an American film and television director, producer, and writer, studio executive, and novelist. Movies Conway directed include The Boogens and Hangar 18. Television series he worked on include The Magicians, Aquarius, Supernatural, Smallville, Psych, 90210, Charmed, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, University Hospital, Burke's Law (the 1994 remake), Paradise, and Matt Houston. Conway also directed the TV movies Last of the Mohicans and Incredible Rocky Mountain Race and the NBC mini-series Greatest Heroes of the Bible. From 1996 to 2002, Conway served as Executive Vice President of Spelling Television, working on many television series including 7th Heaven, Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210. Conway began writing novels in 2012. His novels include Dead and Not So Buried (2012), Sexy Babe (2012) and In Cold Blonde (2013).

Works

The Shuttlepod Show
10.0

The Shuttlepod Show

Actors Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, and Erica LaRose explore all things Star Trek, life on Earth, and more. Join Star Trek Enterprise's Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Trinneer) and Lieutenant Malcom Reed (Keating) as they sit down with remarkable guests and have in depth conversations about Life, Star Trek, experiences behind the scenes and more.

Release Date: 2022-02-20

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

The Orville
7.6

The Orville

Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

Release Date: 2017-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1202

The Magicians
7.6

The Magicians

Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.

Release Date: 2015-12-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 1595

The Messengers
6.3

The Messengers

When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.

Release Date: 2015-04-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 137

5.5

Stardate Revisited - The Origin of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Feature-length documentary offering the definitive look at the making of the iconic science fiction classic; STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION! Includes never-before-seen revealing behind-the-scenes footage, newly found screen tests, and fascinating all-new interviews with the key creative personnel from the show, as well as the entire regular cast.

Release Date: 2012-07-23

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

Switched at Birth
7.5

Switched at Birth

The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.

Release Date: 2011-06-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 203

90210
5.7

90210

90210 revolves around several students at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon Wilson. Their father, Harry Wilson, has returned from Kansas to his Beverly Hills childhood home with his family to care for his mother, former television and theater actress Tabitha Wilson, who has a drinking problem and clashes with his wife Debbie Wilson. Annie and Dixon struggle to adjust to their new lives while making friends and yet adhering to their parents' wishes.

Release Date: 2008-09-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 192

Psych
7.9

Psych

Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

Release Date: 2006-07-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 827

Supernatural
8.3

Supernatural

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

Release Date: 2005-09-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 7728

Smallville
8.2

Smallville

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

Release Date: 2001-10-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 4135

Star Trek: Enterprise
7.6

Star Trek: Enterprise

During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

Release Date: 2001-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 826

Charmed
8.2

Charmed

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

Release Date: 1998-10-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 16

Vote Count: 2337

Kindred: The Embraced
7.1

Kindred: The Embraced

Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The series focused on San Francisco Police Detective Frank Kohanek who discovers his city is home to numerous vampires while investigating alleged mobster, Julian Luna. Julian is the "prince" of the city, ruler of five groups of vampires in the city, collectively called "The Kindred". The vampires survive through the "masquerade", disguising themselves as humans, and Julian strictly enforces the laws that govern them to protect their anonymity. Julian and Frank form an uneasy bond as they work together to try to prevent a vampire war and Julian struggles with his romantic feelings for human reporter Caitlin Byrne. The eight episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD.

Release Date: 1996-04-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 28

7.2

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior

When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant Commander Worf to discover the Klingons' true intentions.

Release Date: 1995-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Legend
6.0

Legend

The irresistible and charming Ernest Pratt is a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in the Old West. Alongside Janos Bartok, a brilliant scientist, the duo teams up to fight for justice using Legend's celebrity and Bartok's outlandish inventions to make a real legend.

Release Date: 1995-04-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Star Trek: Voyager
7.8

Star Trek: Voyager

Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

Release Date: 1995-01-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 959

University Hospital

University Hospital

University Hospital is an American medical drama that aired from January 16 until May 1, 1995.

Release Date: 1995-01-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Burke's Law
6.7

Burke's Law

Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.

Release Date: 1994-01-07

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
7.9

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.

Release Date: 1993-01-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 825

Bodies of Evidence
7.5

Bodies of Evidence

Bodies of Evidence is a police drama that aired on CBS from June 1992 to May 1993. It stars Lee Horsley and George Clooney as Los Angeles homicide detectives.

Release Date: 1992-06-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 2

10.0

Jailbirds

Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed together.

Release Date: 1991-05-16

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

Paradise
5.4

Paradise

The adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.

Release Date: 1988-10-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

Star Trek: The Next Generation
8.4

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

Release Date: 1987-09-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 1538

Tour of Duty
8.0

Tour of Duty

The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.

Release Date: 1987-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 160

MacGyver
7.7

MacGyver

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

Release Date: 1985-09-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 841

Hollywood Beat
5.0

Hollywood Beat

Hollywood Beat is a mid-1980s American television police drama starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter, and John Matuszak. The series aired Saturday night at 8:00 p.m Eastern time. A pair of undercover cops, Nick McCarren (Jack Scalia) and Jack Rado (Jay Acovone) cruise the filthy, neon-lit streets of Hollywood, looking for crime in all the right places as rock music blares in the background.

Release Date: 1985-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

MacGruder and Loud
5.0

MacGruder and Loud

MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud in a Los Angeles Police Department-styled police agency. They fought a battle every day to keep it a closely guarded secret from their boss, Sgt. Hanson. Malcolm and Jenny lived in a duplex-type apartment complex where there was a secret door behind the grandfather clock in her apartment, where Malcolm could sneak in and enjoy her company. This was one of the few failures from Aaron Spelling's production company in its history, since it was picked by ABC to debut right after the Super Bowl in 1985 and was heavily promoted during the game. The promotion resulted in high ratings at first, but following a quick decline, the series was cancelled three months into its run, after ranking 40th out of 104 programs that aired that season with an average 15.76 household rating, according to TVTango.com. Because of the frequent commercials during the Super Bowl, the following night Johnny Carson ask rhetorically during his monologue on The Tonight Show: "Did you see that new show, 'Frequent and Loud'?"

Release Date: 1985-01-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

Hunter
7.2

Hunter

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

Release Date: 1984-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 87

Hardcastle and McCormick
6.4

Hardcastle and McCormick

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

Release Date: 1983-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 37

Matt Houston
6.2

Matt Houston

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.

Release Date: 1982-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 25

Hotel
6.8

Hotel

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.

Release Date: 1982-08-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 24

The President Must Die

Documentary purporting to expose the cover-up of the JFK assassination conspiracy.

Release Date: 1981-12-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

5.0

Legend of the Wild

Patchwork movie edited from episodes from the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977).

Release Date: 1981-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Nashville Grab

A dashing, fast-living country singer almost turns Nashville upside-down after he is kidnapped by a pair of conniving female convicts determined to use him as a passport to freedom.

Release Date: 1981-10-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

5.5

The Boogens

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

Release Date: 1981-09-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 65

5.0

California Gold Rush

Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever.

Release Date: 1981-07-30

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

3.0

The Adventures of Nellie Bly

A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend through her exposes of corruption and inhumane conditions in New York of the 1880s in "The New York World."

Release Date: 1981-06-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

3.3

Earthbound

A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.

Release Date: 1981-01-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

6.9

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.

Release Date: 1980-10-31

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 13

5.1

Hangar 18

During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.

Release Date: 1980-07-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 74

5.0

The Fall of the House of Usher

After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

Release Date: 1979-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

4.3

In Search of Historic Jesus

Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.

Release Date: 1979-08-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3

5.0

The Bermuda Triangle

Documentary on with strange goings-on in the 'devil's triangle'.

Release Date: 1979-01-24

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 6

2.0

The Story of Noah

A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.

Release Date: 1978-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Greatest Heroes of the Bible
3.5

Greatest Heroes of the Bible

Release Date: 1978-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 2

4.7

The Time Machine

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

Release Date: 1978-11-05

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

Release Date: 1978-10-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

6.0

Beyond & Back

A documentary with interviews of people who claimed to have died and then come back from the dead.

Release Date: 1978-02-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

5.0

Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter

In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black man and freed slave who has lost his papers. Locals with a grudge against Lincoln and a hatred of African-Americans frame Henry for stealing, and it's up to Lincoln to defend the man and find the vital clue that will set him free.

Release Date: 1978-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

3.0

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells the story of the epic cross-country race between a young Mark Twain and his rival, Mike Fink. The bulk of the film depicts the race, which proves to be more a test of character than of stamina

Release Date: 1977-12-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

6.0

Last of the Mohicans

During the French and Indian War in colonial America, a white scout, with two of his Indian brothers, helps a British officer escort two women through dangerous territory, with both French troops and hostile Indians after them.

Release Date: 1977-11-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

5.6

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.

Release Date: 1977-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 10

Grizzly Adams
7.0

Grizzly Adams

An innocent fugitive from the law lives in the wilderness with a grizzly bear companion and helps passers-by in the forest.

Release Date: 1977-02-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 23

3.2

In Search of Noah's Ark

An investigation into the theory that Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's Ark.

Release Date: 1976-12-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

5.8

The Mysterious Monsters

One of the many notorious 70's "unknown" documentaries, The Mysterious Monsters covers topics such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Pictures, sounds, and videos of these two monsters are examined by Peter Graves, the host. Psychics, hypnotism, and the history of Bigfoot in many ancient cultures is also scrutinized.

Release Date: 1976-07-01

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 4

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