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Hugh Wilson is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Production Office Assistant American born on 21 august 1943 at Miami (USA)

Hugh Wilson

Hugh Wilson
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Birth name Hugh Hamilton Wilson Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 21 august 1943 at Miami (USA)
Death 14 january 2018 (at 74 years)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award

Hugh Hamilton Wilson (born August 21, 1943) is an American movie director, writer and TV showrunner. He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the popular movie comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club.

Best films

The First Wives Club (1996)
(Director)
Police Academy (1984)
(Director)
Guarding Tess (1994)
(Director)

Usually with

G. W. Bailey
G. W. Bailey
(3 films)
Donovan Scott
Donovan Scott
(2 films)
Steve Tyrell
Steve Tyrell
(2 films)
Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman
(2 films)
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Filmography of Hugh Wilson (14 films)

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Actor

Mickey
Mickey (2004)
, 1h30
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Harry Connick, Mike Starr, Michelle Johnson, Hugh Wilson
Roles Munson
Rating64% 3.2393.2393.2393.2393.239
Tripp Spence (Harry Connick, Jr.) is a widowed Maryland-based lawyer who becomes the focus of an intensive IRS investigation regarding false bankruptcy claims he filed during his wife's fatal illness. Realizing his case against the inevitable criminal charges is hopeless, he takes his 13-year-old son Derrick (Shawn Salinas), who loves playing Little League baseball and is competing in his final year of eligibility due to age restrictions, and flees from the investigation, moving out west to Las Vegas, Nevada. Through a corporate connection, Tripp acquires new identities for the two of them, with Tripp becoming Glen Simon Ryan and Derrick becoming Michael "Mickey" Jacob Ryan, whose fictional backstory is that they recently moved into town from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Blast from the Past, 1h52
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley, Joey Slotnick
Roles Levy
Rating67% 3.350253.350253.350253.350253.35025
In 1962 an eccentric scientist who, like so many people at the time, thinking that a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was possible, has built an incredibly large fallout shelter in his back yard deep underground. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when he thought things were going to escalate, Dr. Calvin Webber takes his pregnant wife into the fallout shelter. When a fighter jet flying over loses control, the pilot bails out and the plane crashes into their house causing intense heat from the fire which "knocks out all of his surface indicators". Calvin then, thinking the worst has happened, sets and activates the shelter's locks (designed not to open for 35 years). Everyone assumes the entire family was killed in the accident as no one knew of Calvin's secret fallout shelter with two hidden entrances (both entrances are mentioned in the movie but the movie focuses on the entrance in his back yard with the service elevator. The other entrance is presumed to have caved in.). Calvin's wife Helen gives birth to a boy whom they name Adam. Adam grows up being taught and exposed to all culture up to 1962 such as watching reruns of The Honeymooners and listening to Perry Como and Dean Martin. When the locks open 35 years later, they're so shocked to see how the world has changed they decide to stay inside. However their supplies have run out, so Adam goes out to get some more but gets lost and is helped by a girl called Eve.
One More Kiss
Directed by Vadim Jean
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler, James Cosmo, Hugh Wilson
Roles Frank’s false teeth
Rating59% 2.951252.951252.951252.951252.95125
When Sarah Hopson (Valerie Edmond) discovers she has a brain tumour, she leaves her successful high-rise lifestyle in New York and returns to her hometown in the Scottish Borders, where she left her widower father Frank (James Cosmo) and her childhood sweetheart Sam (Gerard Butler) to pursue a career in the United States seven years ago. Upon arriving Sarah finds out that Sam, a restaurant owner, is now happily married to Charlotte (Valerie Gogan). This, however, does not stop her from asking the couple a last favour – which is to let Sarah spend her remaining time in the company of the only man she has ever loved.
Guarding Tess, 1h36
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths
Roles The President (voice)
Rating61% 3.0984153.0984153.0984153.0984153.098415
Doug Chesnic is a Secret Service agent who takes great pride in his job, performing his duties with the utmost professionalism. His assignment for the last three years has been a severe test of his patience. Doug is in charge of a team stationed in Ohio to protect Tess Carlisle, the widow of a former U.S. President.
Burglar
Burglar (1987)
, 1h43
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, G. W. Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lesley Ann Warren, Vyto Ruginis, James Handy
Roles Customer at Mayday
Rating51% 2.553492.553492.553492.553492.55349
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her.
Rustlers' Rhapsody, 1h28
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Tom Berenger, G. W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Fernando Rey, Andy Griffith, Sela Ward
Rating63% 3.194073.194073.194073.194073.19407
The concept of the movie is explained in a voiceover intro by G. W. Bailey, who wonders what it would be like if one of the 1930s/1940s Rex O'Herlihan movies were to be made today. At that point, in a scene reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, the cinematography shifts from black & white to color and the soundtrack changes from mono to Dolby Digital surround sound.
Police Academy, 1h36
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, David Graf, George Gaynes, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow
Roles Angry Driver (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3499553.3499553.3499553.3499553.349955
Due to a shortage of police officers, the newly elected mayor of an unnamed American city has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing fitness requirements, educational levels, and medical standards. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes.

Director

Mickey
Mickey (2004)
, 1h30
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Harry Connick, Mike Starr, Michelle Johnson, Hugh Wilson
Rating64% 3.2393.2393.2393.2393.239
Tripp Spence (Harry Connick, Jr.) is a widowed Maryland-based lawyer who becomes the focus of an intensive IRS investigation regarding false bankruptcy claims he filed during his wife's fatal illness. Realizing his case against the inevitable criminal charges is hopeless, he takes his 13-year-old son Derrick (Shawn Salinas), who loves playing Little League baseball and is competing in his final year of eligibility due to age restrictions, and flees from the investigation, moving out west to Las Vegas, Nevada. Through a corporate connection, Tripp acquires new identities for the two of them, with Tripp becoming Glen Simon Ryan and Derrick becoming Michael "Mickey" Jacob Ryan, whose fictional backstory is that they recently moved into town from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Blast from the Past, 1h52
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley, Joey Slotnick
Rating67% 3.350253.350253.350253.350253.35025
In 1962 an eccentric scientist who, like so many people at the time, thinking that a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was possible, has built an incredibly large fallout shelter in his back yard deep underground. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when he thought things were going to escalate, Dr. Calvin Webber takes his pregnant wife into the fallout shelter. When a fighter jet flying over loses control, the pilot bails out and the plane crashes into their house causing intense heat from the fire which "knocks out all of his surface indicators". Calvin then, thinking the worst has happened, sets and activates the shelter's locks (designed not to open for 35 years). Everyone assumes the entire family was killed in the accident as no one knew of Calvin's secret fallout shelter with two hidden entrances (both entrances are mentioned in the movie but the movie focuses on the entrance in his back yard with the service elevator. The other entrance is presumed to have caved in.). Calvin's wife Helen gives birth to a boy whom they name Adam. Adam grows up being taught and exposed to all culture up to 1962 such as watching reruns of The Honeymooners and listening to Perry Como and Dean Martin. When the locks open 35 years later, they're so shocked to see how the world has changed they decide to stay inside. However their supplies have run out, so Adam goes out to get some more but gets lost and is helped by a girl called Eve.
Dudley Do-Right, 1h22
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Dyllan Christopher, Eric Idle, Corey Burton
Rating39% 1.952531.952531.952531.952531.95253
The story begins with three children and a horse. These are young versions of Dudley Do-Right (Dyllan Christopher), Nell Fenwick (Ashley Yarman), Snidely Whiplash (Jeremy Bergman), and Horse. The three talk of their aspirations; Dudley believes he is destined to be a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer (Mountie) while Nell wishes to see the world. Snidely, however, wishes to be the "bad guy" and travel around the world.
The First Wives Club, 1h43
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Stephen Collins, Dan Hedaya, Victor Garber
Rating64% 3.201893.201893.201893.201893.20189
At Middlebury College in 1969, four young friends, Elise Elliot (Goldie Hawn), Brenda Morelli (Bette Midler), Annie MacDuggan (Diane Keaton), and Cynthia Swann (Stockard Channing), are graduating. As graduation gifts, valedictorian Cynthia presents the girls with matching Bulgari pearl necklaces. As the graduates take a commemorative picture of the four of them (presumably for the last time), Cynthia makes Annie, Brenda and Elise promise that they will always be there for each other throughout the remainder of their lives.
Guarding Tess, 1h36
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths
Rating61% 3.0984153.0984153.0984153.0984153.098415
Doug Chesnic is a Secret Service agent who takes great pride in his job, performing his duties with the utmost professionalism. His assignment for the last three years has been a severe test of his patience. Doug is in charge of a team stationed in Ohio to protect Tess Carlisle, the widow of a former U.S. President.
Burglar
Burglar (1987)
, 1h43
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, G. W. Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lesley Ann Warren, Vyto Ruginis, James Handy
Rating51% 2.553492.553492.553492.553492.55349
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her.
Rustlers' Rhapsody, 1h28
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Tom Berenger, G. W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Fernando Rey, Andy Griffith, Sela Ward
Rating63% 3.194073.194073.194073.194073.19407
The concept of the movie is explained in a voiceover intro by G. W. Bailey, who wonders what it would be like if one of the 1930s/1940s Rex O'Herlihan movies were to be made today. At that point, in a scene reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, the cinematography shifts from black & white to color and the soundtrack changes from mono to Dolby Digital surround sound.
Police Academy, 1h36
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, David Graf, George Gaynes, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow
Rating66% 3.3499553.3499553.3499553.3499553.349955
Due to a shortage of police officers, the newly elected mayor of an unnamed American city has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing fitness requirements, educational levels, and medical standards. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes.