George McCowan

George McCowan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George McCowan (June 27, 1927 – November 1, 1995) was a Canadian film (mostly TV movies) and TV director in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. McCowan began his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He moved to the United States from Canada in 1967 and stayed there. He is most notable for directing seven episodes of Charlie's Angels, directing episodes of S.W.A.T., and directing episodes of Starsky and Hutch. He worked more often with such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Fantasy Island, and Hart to Hart. McCowan directed the 1971 Canadian hockey film Face-Off, the 1972 film, The Magnificent Seven Ride!, the 1972 horror film, Frogs, and the 1976 film Shadow of the Hawk. McCowan also directed the film H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come and the 1970 television war movie,The Challenge, but for the latter he chose to be credited as Alan Smithee. McCowan died in 1995 in Santa Monica, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article George McCowan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: George McCowan
  • Popularity: 4.214
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-06-27
  • Place of Birth: Paris, Ontario, Canada
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  • 1970
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    Run, Simon, Run

    Run, Simon, Run

    5.2 1970 HD

    A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.

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  • 1975
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    Carter's Army

    Carter's Army

    4.7 1975 HD

    A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany....

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  • 1979
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    The Shape of Things to Come

    The Shape of Things to Come

    4 1979 HD

    Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on...

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  • 1972
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    The Magnificent Seven Ride!

    The Magnificent Seven Ride!

    5.4 1972 HD

    Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers...

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  • 1974
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    The inbreaker

    The inbreaker

    1 1974 HD

    Film directed by George Mccowan

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  • 1972
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    Frogs

    Frogs

    4.7 1972 HD

    Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett...

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  • 1970
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    The Sixth Column

    The Sixth Column

    6.5 1970 HD

    Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they...

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  • 1970
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    The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

    The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

    5 1970 HD

    Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home...

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  • 1975
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    Murder on Flight 502

    Murder on Flight 502

    6 1975 HD

    On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.

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  • 1971
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    Face-Off

    Face-Off

    5.35 1971 HD

    A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with...

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  • 1976
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    Shadow of the Hawk

    Shadow of the Hawk

    5.9 1976 HD

    Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Mike, the grandson of Native American shaman Old Man Hawk who is called back to his village to help defeat evil forces...

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  • 1969
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    The Ballad of Andy Crocker

    The Ballad of Andy Crocker

    4 1969 HD

    Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business...

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  • 1969
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    The Monk

    The Monk

    7.5 1969 HD

    Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he...

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  • 1971
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    Love Hate Love

    Love Hate Love

    5.8 1971 HD

    Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance...

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  • 1971
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    If Tomorrow Comes

    If Tomorrow Comes

    8 1971 HD

    In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl...

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  • 1970
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    The Challenge

    The Challenge

    6 1970 HD

    All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single...

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  • 1972
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    Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

    Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

    8 1972 HD

    An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is...

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  • 1971
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    Cannon

    Cannon

    3.5 1971 HD

    In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.

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  • 1978
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    Return to Fantasy Island

    Return to Fantasy Island

    3.2 1978 HD

    A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island....

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  • 1971
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    The Face of Fear

    The Face of Fear

    5.7 1971 HD

    A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she...

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  • 1979
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    The Return of Mod Squad

    The Return of Mod Squad

    5 1979 HD

    Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they...

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  • 1974
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    To Kill the King

    To Kill the King

    1 1974 HD

    Lance Henriksen is a successful restauranteur who is having a hot n' heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one...

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  • 1980
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    The July Group

    The July Group

    1 1980 HD

    A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested. The film also questions whether their...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

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  • 1970
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    6.6 1970 HD

    Night Heat was a Canadian police drama series. It starred Allan Royal as journalist Tom Kirkwood, who chronicled the nightly police beat of...

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  • 1970
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    6.6 1970 HD

    Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle!...

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  • 1970
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    6.977 1970 HD

    Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A coroner searches for truth and justice with the help of his friends, while trying to hold his family together. (inspired by the headlines of Dr....

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  • 1970
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    4.5 1970 HD

    The Ugliest Girl in Town is a short-lived American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC. It ran from September 26, 1968 to January 30,...

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  • 1970
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    6.455 1970 HD

    The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23,...

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  • 1970
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    8.1 1970 HD

    A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware...

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  • 1970
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    6.947 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series stars Burt Reynolds as the title character. Reruns of...

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  • 1970
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    5.7 1970 HD

    The New People is a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

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  • 1970
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    5.429 1970 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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  • 1970
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    6.286 1970 HD

    Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of...

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  • 1970
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    6.992 1970 HD

    S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23...

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  • 1970
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    4.5 1970 HD

    Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew...

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

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  • 1970
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    6.455 1970 HD

    Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the...

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  • 1970
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    7.3 1970 HD

    The Forest Rangers was a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. It was a co-production between CBC Television and ITC Entertainment...

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  • 1970
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    5.7 1970 HD

    Bring 'Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O'Neal. The series was shown in the United...

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  • 1970
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    7.235 1970 HD

    Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the...

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  • 1970
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    6.983 1970 HD

    Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn...

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25,...

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  • 1970
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    6.363 1970 HD

    A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    The Silent Force is a police crime drama series focused on three US Government undercover agents fighting against organized crime in southern...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    The Littlest Hobo is a Canadian television series based upon a 1958 American film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first...

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