Sandor Stern

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Born in the northern Canadian town of Timmins, Ontario; raised in the small town of Prescott, Ontario, on the St. Lawrence River; Sandor Stern was drawn to short story writing while in high school and began writing stage plays while attending the University of Toronto. Though he planned to obtain a degree in teaching, a physician-uncle suggested that medicine might offer more involving experiences for an aspiring writer. Heeding that advice, Stern enrolled in Medical School at the University of Toronto. During his schooling, he continued to write, switching to TV scripts, and selling his first script to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation prior to his graduation in 1961. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandor Stern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

My Amityville Diaries

A Making-of documentary featuring interviews with screenwriter Sandor Stern, actor Meeno Peluce, actor Don Stroud, actor Marc Vahanian and actress Amy Wright.

Release Date:2022-10-25

Character:Self

Shock Docs

A documentary series that takes a fresh look at true and terrifying tales of paranormal encounters.

Release Date:2020-10-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

You Belong to Me

After a messy divorce, Alex Wilson isn't interested in the advances of her colleague, Michael. But when Michael's interest takes a morbid turn and someone ends up dead, Alex becomes trapped in a supernatural struggle to save her son from a scorned (and deceased) suitor.

Release Date:2008-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:12

The Amityville Horror

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Release Date:2005-04-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2198

In My Sister's Shadow

Joan Connor is a lonely florist who falls for her little sister's ex, even though he is stalking the younger woman.

Release Date:1997-11-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Badge of Betrayal

Annie Walker, hoping to rebuild her life, thinks that she has gotten the perfect job working for the sheriff of a small town, but soon discovers the he is involved in large-scale corruption.

Release Date:1997-01-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Early Edition

Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?

Release Date:1996-09-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:148

Promised Land

Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.

Release Date:1996-09-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

Gridlock

After explosions destroy all the bridges connecting Manhattan to the rest of New York, the authorities attribute the disaster to a terrorist organization. New York cop Jake Gorki, flying over the Federal Reserve Bank in his helicopter, suspects something else: a robbery.

Release Date:1996-01-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Stranger Beside Me

When Jennifer marries Chris, it seems she can finally let go of her tragic past. But behind the perfect facade lies a violent, possessive dark side--and a past filled with secrets. As she begins to suspect his involvement with a string of rapes, Jennifer sets out to expose the horrifying truth about her husband...before he strikes again.

Release Date:1995-09-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

A Child's Cry for Help

A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?

Release Date:1994-11-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Touched by an Angel

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

Release Date:1994-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:174

Heart of a Child

For Fred and Karen Schouten, the news that she is pregnant is most welcome, having been trying for a while with no success. Gordon and Alice Holc are also happy as whilst they already have one child, they learn that at 35 Alice is pregnant again. But both couples receive devastating news as Fred and Karen are informed that their not-yet-born baby has a brain defect and has no chance of surviving whilst Alice and Gordon learn that their baby has a defective heart and also has little chance of surviving...

Release Date:1994-05-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Jericho Fever

A group of terrorists bomb peace negotiations in Mexico. One of the terrorists contracts a fever disease during the attack. The terrorists flee across the border to the US and while they are in the process of crossing the border they committ a murder. The sick terrorist infects a large number of people in New Mexico, and the patients start dying as the doctors are unable to cure the disease. A female doctor from the Centers for Disease Control arrives in New Mexico. Together with an FBI agent she starts to search for the terrorists. But there are also others who are looking for the terrorists...

Release Date:1993-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.

Release Date:1993-05-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Duplicates

A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.

Release Date:1992-03-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Deception: A Mother’s Secret

When a widower tries to adopt his wife’s son he’s shocked by what he discovers about her past.

Release Date:1991-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Web of Deceit

After making a name for herself on the West Coast, a defense lawyer returns to her hometown of Atlanta to argue a controversial rape-murder case. But it's not all work and no play: once there, she reenters high society and has a reunion with an old flame -- who just happens to be the prosecuting attorney on her case. As she investigates her client's claims of innocence, she uncovers a sinister conspiracy that threatens both her life and her new romance.

Release Date:1990-10-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Dangerous Pursuit

A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a footloose cocktail waitress, she unwittingly once spent the night in Manhattan with a political assassin and now, as a happily married cop's wife, has the misfortune of running into him after all this time in Portland, Oregon -- and the pursuit begins.

Release Date:1990-02-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Without Her Consent

Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.

Release Date:1990-01-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Amityville: The Evil Escapes

After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.

Release Date:1989-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:118

Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.

Release Date:1988-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:143

Glitz

Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.

Release Date:1988-09-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Shattered Innocence

A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. A dramatized account of the life of the adult actress Shauna Grant.

Release Date:1988-03-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Probe

Probe is a 1988 American television pilot and subsequent TV series, created by television mystery writer William Link and noted science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It aired on ABC. Michael B. Wagner, a veteran television writer, wrote the two-hour pilot, and became Executive Producer for the series. The pilot and series starred Parker Stevenson as Austin James, a misanthropic genius who solved high tech crimes, and Ashley Crow as James' new secretary Mickey Castle. The show began as a mid-season replacement and was canceled after a two-month run of the pilot and six episodes. Entire episodes have made their way on the internet through video-sharing sites such as YouTube. Some episodes of the show revolved around Serendip, a company founded by Austin that he has no interest in running. Mickey, his Serendip-appointed secretary, plays Watson to Austin's Holmes.

Release Date:1988-03-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Easy Prey

Based on a true story, a serial killer abducts his latest victim from a mall and assaults her. Confused by her atypical reaction, he doesn't kill her, but instead takes her along as he continues on his killing spree. Meanwhile, the authorities debate whether she's a victim or a willing participant.

Release Date:1986-07-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Assassin

A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.

Release Date:1986-03-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

John and Yoko: A Love Story

Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

Release Date:1985-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Secret Weapons

Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

Release Date:1985-03-03

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Vote Count:12

Passions

A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.

Release Date:1984-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Cutter to Houston

Cutter to Houston is an American medical drama starring Shelley Hack, Jim Metzler, and Alec Baldwin that aired on CBS on Saturday night from October 1 to December 31, 1983 at 8 p.m Eastern time. The series was created by Sandor Stern.

Release Date:1983-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Memories Never Die

When her husband becomes ill with heart problems, Joanne Tilford reluctantly returns to her family after a six-year stay in a mental institution. Her children are strangers to her and the woman who has been raising them is hostile to Joanne's presence.

Release Date:1982-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

Release Date:1982-02-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

To Find My Son

A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy, and particularly with a power-hungry administrator. After many delays, they deny his application. Then, he finds a way to turn the tables on them for the boy's own good.

Release Date:1980-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

The all-male crew of an oil company makes an emergency landing on an island and finds itself at the mercy of a tribe of hostile women programmed to kill all men.

Release Date:1979-12-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7

The Amityville Horror

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Release Date:1979-07-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:928

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

A young woman volunteers to carry an embryo transplant for a couple that has tried and failed to have a baby. Soon, however, she begins to have second thoughts about giving up the baby after it's born.

Release Date:1979-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Vote Count:1

Fast Break

David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.

Release Date:1979-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7

True Grit: A Further Adventure

The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Release Date:1978-05-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

Killer on Board

The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.

Release Date:1977-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Red Alert

A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.

Release Date:1977-05-18

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Vote Count:1

Shark Kill

Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.

Release Date:1976-05-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

Where Have All the People Gone

A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.

Release Date:1974-10-08

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Vote Count:30

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.

Release Date:1974-09-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:13

Doc Elliot

Doc Elliot is an American medical drama that aired from March 5, 1973 until May 1, 1974.

Release Date:1973-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:10

Corwin

Corwin was a Canadian drama television series which aired on CBC Television from 1969 to 1971.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator