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Alvin Rakoff
Highest Rated: 29% Death Ship (1980)
Lowest Rated: 29% Death Ship (1980)
Birthday: Feb 6, 1927
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alvin Rakoff began his directing career in film, but ultimately moved into television. Rakoff brought laughs to audiences in the early stages of his entertainment career by directing comedies like the Bette Davis film "The Anniversary" (1968), the Peter Sellers film "Hoffman" (1970) and the Jean Simmons film "Say Hello to Yesterday" (1970). He continued to work in film in the seventies and the eighties, directing motion pictures like the David McCallum adventure "King Solomon's Treasure" (1978), "City on Fire" (1979) and the George Kennedy thriller "Death Ship" (1980). Rakoff more recently directed "The Best of Friends" (PBS, 1992-93).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 78% | A Dance to the Music of Time | Director | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Best of Friends | Director | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The First Olympics: Athens 1896 | Director | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Number 10 | Director | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson | Director | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Voyage Round My Father | Director | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dirty Tricks | Director | - | 1981 |
| 29% | 34% | Death Ship | Director | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | City on Fire | Director | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Romeo and Juliet | Director | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King Solomon's Treasure | Director | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Say Hello to Yesterday | Director | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Hoffman | Director | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 16% | Crossplot | Director | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Comedy Man | Director | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The World in My Pocket | Director | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Treasure of San Teresa | Director | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Room 43 | Director | - | 1958 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Santo | Director | 1969 |