George McCowan Trailers
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George McCowan (June 27, 1927 – November 1, 1995) was a Canadian film (mostly TV movies) and TV director in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
McCowan began his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He moved to the United States from Canada in 1967 and stayed there.
He is most notable for directing seven episodes of Charlie's Angels, directing episodes of S.W.A.T., and directing episodes of Starsky and Hutch. He worked more often with such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Fantasy Island, and Hart to Hart. McCowan directed the 1971 Canadian hockey film Face-Off, the 1972 film, The Magnificent Seven Ride!, the 1972 horror film, Frogs, and the 1976 film Shadow of the Hawk.
McCowan also directed the film H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come and the 1970 television war movie,The Challenge, but for the latter he chose to be credited as Alan Smithee.
McCowan died in 1995 in Santa Monica, California.
Most Popular George McCowan Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
21 November 1975
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
21 October 1969
Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster.
10 March 1970
Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens through the use of special glasses.
07 December 1971
In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec.
01 August 1972
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits.
26 March 1971
In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
08 October 1971
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life.
14 July 1976
Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Mike, the grandson of Native American shaman Old Man Hawk who is called back to his village to help defeat evil forces threatening the tribe.
18 May 1979
Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss.
10 March 1972
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration.
09 February 1971
Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden.
01 December 1970
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
01 July 1980
A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested.
16 November 1970
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town.
04 April 1974
Film directed by George Mccowan
30 January 1972
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town.
12 November 1971
A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles.
04 May 1979
Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities.
18 November 1969
Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business into bankruptcy and his high school sweetheart has married another man.
20 January 1978
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island.
25 May 1975
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany.
13 September 1974
Hank Adams, a restaurateur, is having an affair with the wife of a Presidential adviser when they overhear her husband and an admiral discussing “the killing of the patient.
10 February 1970
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
