Person Details

Birthday: 1922-05-13 21:16:28

Death: 2000-07-26 21:16:28

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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Movie Involvements: 33

TV Involvements: 77


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Don Weis (May 13, 1922 - July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director. Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as Bannerline (1951), Just This Once (1952), You for Me (1952) and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953). Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others. Weis won two Directors Guild of America Awards for television direction in 1956 and again in 1958. Weis died in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 78 years of age. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Weis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
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Perry Mason

(1957) Director
The Dick Van Dyke Show
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8

The Dick Van Dyke Show

(1961) Director
The Love Boat
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The Love Boat

(1977) Director
MacGyver
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MacGyver

(1985) Director
The Andy Griffith Show
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The Andy Griffith Show

(1960) Director
Batman
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Batman

(1966) Director
Ironside
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Ironside

(1967) Director
Hawaii Five-O
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7

Hawaii Five-O

(1968) Director

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Script Supervisor
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1949 Script Supervisor
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Writing

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1952 Writer
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Crew

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1950 Dialogue Coach
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Sound

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1948 Dialogue Editor
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