John Champion - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Mustang Country (1976)

Mustang Country (1976)

Brother of the Wind (1973)

Zero Hour! (1957)

Dragonfly Squadron (1954)

Mustang Country (1976)

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Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Crazy About Planes

Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Picked The Wrong Week

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Mustang Country (1976)

Writer (Feature Film)

Mustang Country (1976)

Brother of the Wind (1973)

Zero Hour! (1957)

Dragonfly Squadron (1954)

Producer (Feature Film)

Mustang Country (1976)

Dragonfly Squadron (1954)

Art Department (Feature Film)

American Splendor (2003)

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Writer (Special)

Seven Against the Sea (1962)

Producer (Special)

Seven Against the Sea (1962)

Special Thanks (Special)

Seven Against the Sea (1962)

Life Events

Videos

Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Crazy About Planes Decker (Jerry Paris!) and stewardess Janet (Peggy King) lead into Stryker (Dana Andrews) introducing Joey (Raymond Ferrell) to pilot Wilson (NFL Hall of Famer Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch) in Zero Hour!, 1957, which was famously the basis for Airplane!, 1980.

Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Picked The Wrong Week No mention of sniffing glue but Treleaven (Sterling Hayden), summoned from a Vancouver night club 45 minutes into the picture, makes his feelings known to flight controller Burdick (Charles Quinlivan) in the airliner-crisis drama Zero Hour!, spoofed in Airplane, 1980.

Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) On April 10th 1945 That's William "Cannon" Conrad narrating as injured pilot Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews) foreshadows Airplane!, 1980, and converses with an RCAF doctor (Willis Bouchey) in Zero Hour!, 1957.

Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Put Stryker On! Sterling Hayden (as "Treleaven") and Dana Andrews (as "Ted Stryker") are giving Lloyd Bridges and Robert Hays (in Airplane, 1980) plenty to work with in the airliner-crisis thriller Zero Hour!, 1957.

Zero Hour! (1957) -- (Movie Clip) That's Not Important Stupendous for fans of Airplane!, 1980, starting in the cabin with Dana Andrews and family, then in the cockpit with Captain Wilson (Elroy Hirsch), Geoffrey Toone (as Dr. Baird) in the Leslie Nielsen role, delivers the landmark line about fish to stewardess Janet (Peggy King) in Zero Hour!, 1957.

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