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Robert Day

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Birthday: Sep 11, 1922

Birthplace: Sheen, England, UK

Over the course of a 50-year career, prolific British filmmaker Robert Day shot movies for more than a decade before stepping into the director's chair for features and television, including such comedies as "The Green Man" and "Two Way Stretch." Born in Sheen, England, he joined the camera department in his late teens, serving as assistant cameraman and focus puller before running the camera by the late '40s, doing so for a wealth of films including the first adaptation of the George Orwell classic "1984." In the mid '50s he began directing for both features and TV series, first with the Launder-Gilliat comedy featuring Alastair Sim, "The Green Man," and the swashbuckling adventures of former pirate Robert Shaw, "The Buccaneers." Day worked his way through a range of genre fare, including Boris Karloff horror flicks ("The Haunted Strangler"), science fiction pictures ("First Man into Space"), and adventure yarns ("Tarzan the Magnificent"). Other notable British productions included the Peter Sellers caper comedy "Two Way Stretch" and several episodes of the celebrated superspy series "The Avengers." In the '60s, Day moved to the United States, where he directed mostly for the small screen on series ranging from the "The Streets of San Francisco" to "Dallas" and for TV movies such as the third installment in the beloved Disney franchise "Beyond Witch Mountain."

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Highest rated movies

64% The Man With Bogart's Face
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Love, Mary
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42% Tarzan's Three Challenges
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The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
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Having Babies
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
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Death Stalk
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Twin Detectives
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China Rose
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Running Out
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Higher Ground Director - 1988
No Score Yet 65% The Quick and the Dead Director - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Celebration Family Director - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diary of a Perfect Murder Director - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love, Mary Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lady From Yesterday Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Running Out Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet China Rose Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Your Place or Mine Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marian Rose White Director - 1981
No Score Yet 94% Peter and Paul Director - 1981
No Score Yet 80% Scruples Director - 1981
No Score Yet 64% The Man With Bogart's Face Director - 1980
No Score Yet 100% Murder by Natural Causes Director - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walking Through the Fire Director - 1979
No Score Yet 26% The Initiation of Sarah Director - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank Director - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Market Baby Director - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Having Babies Director - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Twin Detectives Director - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Newspaper Game Director - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kingston: The Power Play Director - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Switch Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Death Stalk Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Home of Our Own Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Trial of Chaplain Jensen Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great American Beauty Contest Director - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big Game Director - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Reluctant Heroes Director - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Broad Daylight Director - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones Director - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Banyon Director - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The House on Greenapple Road Director - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ritual of Evil Director - 1969
No Score Yet 0% Tarzan and the Jungle Boy Producer - 1968
No Score Yet 23% Tarzan and the Great River Director - 1967
No Score Yet 7% Tarzan and the Valley of Gold Director - 1966
No Score Yet 26% She Director - 1965
No Score Yet 42% Tarzan's Three Challenges Director - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Operation Snatch Director - 1962
No Score Yet 81% The Rebel Director - 1961
No Score Yet 100% Tarzan the Magnificent Director - 1960
No Score Yet 72% Two Way Stretch Director - 1960
No Score Yet 22% First Man Into Space Director - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bobbikins Director - 1959
No Score Yet 43% The Haunted Strangler Director - 1958
No Score Yet 49% Corridors of Blood Director - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Strangers' Meeting Director - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Life in Emergency Ward 10 Director - 1957
No Score Yet 81% The Green Man Director - 1957

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Director 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet McCloud Director 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Story Director 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barnaby Jones Director 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sixth Sense Director 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ironside Director 1970
No Score Yet 88% The Avengers Director 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tarzan Director 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Buccaneers Director 1957