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Richard Leland Bare (August 12, 1913 – March 28, 2015) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter of television shows and short films.
Born in Turlock, California, he attended USC School of Cinematic Arts where he directed his most notable student film, The Oval Portrait, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story. He became notable post-graduation for writing and directing the Joe McDoakes series of short films for Warner Brothers between 1942 and 1956, featuring George O'Hanlon in the title role.
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10 November 1951
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
01 July 1950
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor.
15 May 1948
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
13 September 1947
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
29 October 1955
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
08 November 1952
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
26 June 1948
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
27 August 1955
Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money.
31 October 1953
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
29 March 1952
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
12 March 1949
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
02 July 1949
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
05 July 1947
Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.
21 July 1969
Three urban couples decide to chuck the hustle and bustle of the big city for the pastoral calm of country living.
31 December 1968
It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy.
18 December 1954
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
02 June 1951
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.
10 May 1947
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
07 January 1950
Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.
28 December 1946
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
14 July 1956
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties.
03 November 1953
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies.
23 May 1953
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.
03 January 1951
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.
15 February 1949
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall.
14 April 1951
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie showr
02 December 1950
A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
05 February 2002
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
01 December 1945
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
19 August 1950
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
23 September 1950
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
28 October 1949
Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.
12 March 1951
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview.
22 August 1949
Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.
09 October 1948
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
13 June 1973
Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt.
19 March 1960
To combat the problem of drug-dealing juvenile delinquents operating in racial gangs, two recent police academy graduates are sent to a local high school, posing as students.
01 January 1934
An artist is so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late.
22 September 1951
"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.
10 September 1949
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J.
08 January 1949
Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.
07 June 1952
Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.
10 October 1958
A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.
14 November 1942
A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
05 May 1956
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door.
12 January 1952
Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
05 March 1939
Twenty-two years earlier Kirk Dean murdered his brother Fred Dean Sr. Now Fred Dean Jr. is looking for his father's killer.
07 May 1955
Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.
01 August 1953
Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with him.
02 October 1948
Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.
02 August 1952
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
28 January 1956
When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.
02 July 1951
In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car,... with predictable results.
14 February 1948
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
01 May 1954
In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.
24 June 1950
A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the real killer.
29 January 1955
When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.
06 November 1948
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
14 March 1954
Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant.
10 January 1953
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.
