Gordon Hessler was a German-born British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.
11 Facts About Gordon Hessler
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Gordon Hessler became story editor for two seasons for that series, then served as the associate producer for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour from 1962 until its cancellation in 1965.
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Gordon Hessler then directed his first feature, a low budget thriller The Woman Who Wouldn't Die, aka Catacombs.
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Gordon Hessler returned to television producing Run for Your Life and directing episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre.
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Gordon Hessler directed The Last Shot You Hear with filming started in 1967 but it was not released until 1969, which was the last film from Robert L Lippert.
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Gordon Hessler did a third with Price and Wicking for AIP, Cry of the Banshee.
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Gordon Hessler directed a thriller Embassy, then Medusa with George Hamilton, the last movie he made written by Wicking.
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Gordon Hessler did a TV movie with Bette Davis, Scream, Pretty Peggy then made the Ray Harryhausen adventure The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
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Gordon Hessler directed episodes of Lucas Tanner, Amy Prentiss, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Kung Fu, Switch, The Blue Knight, Spencer's Pilots, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Wonder Woman, CHiPs, and Hawaii Five-O.
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Gordon Hessler directed Little Women, Secrets of Three Hungry Wives, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Puzzle, The Secret War of Jackie's Girls, Tales of the Haunted, California Cowboys, Pray for Death, The Misfit Brigade and Rage of Honor as well as episode of Shannon, The Master, Tales of the Unexpected and The Equalizer.
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Gordon Hessler wrote and directed The Girl in a Swing starring Meg Tilly, an adaptation of Richard Adams's novel.