Luther Davis (Writing)

Across 110th Street

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

Release Date: 1972-12-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 110

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...

Release Date: 1970-10-13

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 4

The Silent Force

The Silent Force is a police crime drama series focused on three US Government undercover agents fighting against organized crime in southern California. It aired from 1970-1971 for one season.

Release Date: 1970-09-21

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

Daughter of the Mind

Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.

Release Date: 1969-12-09

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 8

Arsenic and Old Lace

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

Release Date: 1969-04-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

Release Date: 1968-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 12

Kismet

The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure. Adapted from the Broadway musical.

Release Date: 1967-10-24

Department: Writing

Job: Book

Vote Count: 2

Ironside

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

Release Date: 1967-03-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 63

Lady in a Cage

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

Release Date: 1964-06-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 72

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.

Release Date: 1963-10-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 3

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.

Release Date: 1963-10-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Combat!

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

Release Date: 1962-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 103

The Wonders of Aladdin

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.

Release Date: 1961-10-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 15

Bus Stop

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, Bus Stop, and Inge was a script consultant for the series, which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing.

Release Date: 1961-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Startime

Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.

Release Date: 1959-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Holiday for Lovers

Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.

Release Date: 1959-07-21

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

The Gift of Love

Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.

Release Date: 1958-02-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

Kiss Them for Me

Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.

Release Date: 1957-12-10

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 28

Kismet

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

Release Date: 1955-10-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 13

New Faces

New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.

Release Date: 1954-02-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

A Lion Is in the Streets

A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

Release Date: 1953-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 13

Black Hand

In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.

Release Date: 1950-03-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 23

B.F.'s Daughter

Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

Release Date: 1948-03-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 8

The Hucksters

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Release Date: 1947-07-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 18