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Boris Sagal is a Director and Producer American born on 18 october 1923 at Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

Boris Sagal

Boris Sagal
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 october 1923 at Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)
Death 22 may 1981 (at 57 years) at Portland (USA)

Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 - May 22, 1981) was a Ukrainian-born American television and film director.

Biography

Réalisateur prolifique pour la télévision américaine où il officia notamment sur quelques épisodes de la série Columbo et sur la mini-série historique Masada, il est surtout connu au cinéma pour avoir réalisé Le Survivant en 1971 avec Charlton Heston.

Il est le père de l'actrice Katey Sagal.


Décès
Lors du tournage de La Troisième Guerre mondiale (World War III), il fut décapité par le rotor de queue d'un hélicoptère en passant derrière сelui-ci.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Boris Sagal (22 films)

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Director

World War III
Directed by Boris Sagal, David Greene
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Arme nucléaire
Actors David Soul, Brian Keith, Cathy Lee Crosby, Jeroen Krabbé, Robert Prosky, Katherine Helmond
Rating64% 3.2461753.2461753.2461753.2461753.246175
Ce téléfilm met en scène les prémices d'une guerre mondiale entre les États-Unis d'Amérique et l'URSS. L’action se passe en 1987. À la suite d'une mission de parachutistes de l'armée rouge envoyée en Alaska pour détruire l'oléoduc trans-Alaska et qui se trouve confrontée à une unité de la garde nationale des États-Unis en manœuvre, la situation dégénère en une guerre nucléaire.
The Awakening Land, 7h
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour, William H. Macy, Steven Keats, Bert Remsen
Rating82% 4.124814.124814.124814.124814.12481
The storyline follows the struggle of Sayward Luckett (Montgomery) after she travels to the unsettled Ohio Valley frontier from post-revolutionary Pennsylvania. She and her family carve out a homestead in the forest, and a community with other settlers. The series follows Sayward from a young single woman, left with three sisters to raise after their mother dies and their father abandons the family, to a married woman who has her own family of seven. Her faithful devotion to her family is recounted against the day-to-day struggle for survival.
Sherlock Holmes in New York, 1h34
Directed by Boris Sagal, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, John Huston, Charlotte Rampling, David Huddleston, Signe Hasso
Rating57% 2.853512.853512.853512.853512.85351
The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor Moriarty.
The Dream Makers
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors James Franciscus, Diane Baker, John Astin, Ron Thompson, Kenny Rogers, Mickey Jones
Rating67% 3.3678053.3678053.3678053.3678053.367805
A university professor with big dreams launches a career in the music industry, eventually running his own record label. To ensure radio stations play run his recording artists' music he illegally pays off deejays and in doing so runs the risk of destroying everything he's built.
A Case of Rape, 1h15
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronny Cox, Cliff Potts, William Daniels, Rosemary Murphy, Kenneth C. Swofford
Rating77% 3.859843.859843.859843.859843.85984
Ellen appears to have a happy marriage to David, although his frequent work-related absences are beginning to take a toll on her. While taking night school classes with her neighbor and best friend, Marge Bracken, she is introduced to Larry Retzliff.
The Greatest Gift, 1h40
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Glenn Ford, Julie Harris, Lance Kerwin, Harris Yulin, Charles Tyner, Dabbs Greer
Rating73% 3.679493.679493.679493.679493.67949
Humble depression-era preacher, Reverend Holvak (Glenn Ford) lives with his wife Elizabeth (Julie Harris) and son Ramey (Lance Kerwin) and struggles against the injustice of violence and a corrupt sheriff in an attempt to maintain the moral values of their faith in their small town.
The Omega Man, 1h38
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Paul Koslo, Rosalind Cash, Eric Laneuville, Brian Tochi
Rating63% 3.1980553.1980553.1980553.1980553.198055
In 1975, biological warfare between China and Russia kills most of the world's population. U.S. Army Col. Robert Neville, M.D. is a scientist based in Los Angeles. As he begins to succumb to the plague himself, he injects himself with an experimental vaccine, rendering himself immune.
The Failing of Raymond
Directed by Boris Sagal
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jane Wyman, Dean Stockwell, Dana Andrews, Paul Henreid, Murray Hamilton, Katey Sagal
Rating66% 3.30753.30753.30753.30753.3075
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Mosquito Squadron, 1h30
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors David McCallum, David Buck, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray, Vladek Sheybal, Robert Urquhart
Rating56% 2.8491252.8491252.8491252.8491252.849125
It is the Second World War and the Royal Air Force attacks German V-1 flying bomb installations during the early summer of 1944. The de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft of Squadron Leader David "Scotty" Scott (David Buck) is shot down during a low-level bombing raid on a V-1 launching site, and Scott and his navigator/bomb-aimer are reportedly killed. His wingman and friend, then-Flight Lieutenant (later insignia Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader) Quint Munroe (David McCallum) comforts Scott's wife Beth (Suzanne Neve) and a romance soon develops, rekindling one that they had had years earlier.
The Thousand Plane Raid, 1h33
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Christopher George, J. D. Cannon, Gavin MacLeod, Ben Murphy, Bo Hopkins, Tim McIntire
Rating56% 2.8068952.8068952.8068952.8068952.806895
In 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George), stationed at an United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 103rd Bomb Group base in England, repeatedly attempts to persuade superiors that massive daylight bombing will hasten the end of World War II. In spite of the mission's extreme difficulty, his plan is finally put into effect against a German aircraft factory.