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Man from Cheyenne (1942)

Assistant Director

Sunset on the Desert (1942)

Assistant Director

Nevada City (1941)

Assistant Director

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)

Assistant Director

The Great Train Robbery (1941)

Assistant Director

Young Bill Hickok (1940)

Assistant Director

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Warm December, A (1972) -- (Movie Clip) My Warm And Willing Nature

Warm December, A (1972) -- (Movie Clip) First Trip To London?

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Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Man from Cheyenne (1942)

Assistant Director

Sunset on the Desert (1942)

Assistant Director

Nevada City (1941)

Assistant Director

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)

Assistant Director

The Great Train Robbery (1941)

Assistant Director

Young Bill Hickok (1940)

Assistant Director

Producer (Feature Film)

Fast Forward (1985)

Executive Producer

Hanky-Panky (1982)

Executive Producer

Stir Crazy (1980)

Executive Producer

A Piece Of The Action (1977)

Let's Do It Again (1975)

Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

A Warm December (1972)

The Lost Man (1969)

Drums Across the River (1954)

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)

Associate Producer

Thunder in God's Country (1951)

Associate Producer

Silver City Bonanza (1951)

Associate Producer

Utah Wagon Train (1951)

Associate Producer

The Old Frontier (1950)

Associate Producer

The Vanishing Westerner (1950)

Associate Producer

Under Mexicali Stars (1950)

Associate Producer

The Missourians (1950)

Associate Producer

Pioneer Marshal (1950)

Associate Producer

Singing Guns (1950)

Associate Producer

Law of the Golden West (1949)

Associate Producer

San Antone Ambush (1949)

Associate Producer

Outcasts of the Trail (1949)

Associate Producer

Ranger of Cherokee Strip (1949)

Associate Producer

South of Rio (1949)

Associate Producer

Prince of the Plains (1949)

Associate Producer

Son of God's Country (1948)

Associate Producer

California Firebrand (1948)

Associate Producer

Sundown in Santa Fe (1948)

Associate Producer

The Timber Trail (1948)

Associate Producer

Along the Oregon Trail (1947)

Associate Producer

Under Colorado Skies (1947)

Associate Producer

Life Events

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Warm December, A (1972) -- (Movie Clip) My Warm And Willing Nature American doctor Matt Younger (Sidney Poitier, who also directed), whom we think might be involved in some international intrigue, sees for the second time the unidentified Esther Anderson, and helps her lose her tail (John Beardmore), on location at the British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, in A Warm December, 1972.

Warm December, A (1972) -- (Movie Clip) First Trip To London? After credit sequence including star Sidney Poitier’s for directing, he’s an American doctor in London for a motorcycle-riding vacation with his young daughter, picked up by pal Henry (George Baker) who has his doubts, and they meet a woman (Esther Anderson) who’s being followed, in A Warm December, 1972.

Warm December, A (1972) -- (Movie Clip) The Open 500 Scramble Star and director Sidney Poitier in action, as American amateur motorcycle racer Dr. Matt Younger in a then-popular “scramble” outside London, monitored by a still-unexplained observer (George Beardmore) then visiting the Thames and Trafalgar Square with his daughter (Yvette Curtis), amid growing mystery, in A Warm December, 1972.

Warm December, A (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Nonqonqo Director and star Sidney Poitier as American doctor Matt Younger visiting London has earned some of the confidence of Catherine (Esther Anderson), mysterious niece of an important African ambassador, and she’s agreed to a date, where they see an African ensemble led by Letta Mbulu singing a Miriam Makeba song, in A Warm December, 1972.

Stir Crazy (1980) -- (Movie Clip) A Huge Misunderstanding! Jobless and headed to Hollywood, actor Harry (Richard Pryor) and writer Skip (Gene Wilder) are wrongly jailed for bank robbery in a desert town (shot in Tucson), and things go badly as they meet their public defender (Joel Brooks) and the local judge (Thomas Moore), in their hit follow-up to Silver Streak, Stir Crazy 1980.

Let's Do It Again (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Don't Throw No Punches Director and co-star Sidney Poitier’s charming opening, featuring himself in Atlanta, the Staple Singers with Curtis Mayfield’s title tune, Jayne Kennedy stopping factory traffic, heavyweight champ George Foreman baring his chest, Bill Cosby’s introduction at the time perfectly innocent, in the hit semi-sequel Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

Let's Do It Again (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Downright Nasty With Strength! Atlantans Billy and Clyde (Bill Cosby, director Sidney Poitier) have posed as reporters to sneak into the New Orleans hotel room of hapless middleweight contender Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker), and we learn how they mean to rig the fight, in Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

Let's Do It Again (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me Biggie We meet Calvin Lockhart as the character whose name was, in fact, borrowed by the famous Brooklyn rapper, visited by Clyde (director Sidney Poitier), then buddy Billy (Bill Cosby), using the same alias, visits the other New Orleans crime boss (John Amos), placing bets on the fight they’ve rigged, in Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

Let's Do It Again (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Kingdom Of Shaka Shot at Atlanta’s historic Big Bethel A.M.E. church, Lee Chamberlin and Denise Nicholas are spouses of Clyde and Billy (director Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) and Ossie Davis the head of the fraternal group which, we learn, is the cause for which they need to raise money, in Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

Under Mexicali Stars (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Allen, Rex Allen Opening scenes introducing Homer (Buddy Ebsen), and star Rex Allen, their lawman identities not quite revealed, plus Dorothy Patrick as "Mad," Percy Helton as her father, and various villains, in Under Mexicali Stars, 1950.

Under Mexicali Stars (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Old Black Mountain Trail Newly hired to help with her ranch, Rex Allen (as "himself") reassures Mad (Dorothy Patrick) about his priorities, and a tune by Fred Howard and Nat Vincent, in Under Mexicali Stars, 1950.

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