Ted Kotcheff
Director, Actor
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (1956-1974)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff, Charles Jarrott, Alan Cooke
Feat. Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Beckinsale…
- a British television anthology of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by ABC Weekend TV. Its…
Life at the Top (1965)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman…
- Laurence Harvey returns for this sequel to Room at the Top (1958). Thinking he's really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill…
Wake In Fright (Outback) (1971)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty…
- After many years in obscurity, this drama has been dusted off and deservingly reappraised as an Australian classic – a waking nightmare of…
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss
- A baby–faced Richard Dreyfuss excels as a pushy Jewish con–artist / entrepreneur in this teeming, energetic coming–of–age…
Billy Two Hats (1974)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gregory Peck, Desi Jr. Arnaz, Jack Warden…
- Minor western with two bandits on the run from a racist sheriff after a botched bank robbery results in a death. Artful take on the genre is mostly…
Fun With Dick And Jane (1977)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon…
- Amusing low–brow satire sees affluent Segal and Fonda plunged into possible poverty and turning to criminal enterprise in an effort to sustain…
North Dallas Forty (1979)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Nick Nolte, Bo Svenson, Steve Forrest
- A sports film set in late 1970s Texas, following American Football player Phil Elliott (Nolte), whose independent attitude and lifestyle of…
First Blood (Rambo) (1982)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy…
- The first, most serious, and so perhaps most hilarious of the Rambo films has Sly Stallone as a buff Vietnam vet who loses his marbles and goes…
Uncommon Valor (1983)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown…
- Gene Hackman plays an American marine who believes his son is still being held in Laos in the aftermath of The Vietnam War. From the director of the…
Switching Channels (1988)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve…
- Newsroom comedy about a chief at a cable TV station who tries to prevent his ex–wife and anchorwoman from marrying another man by assigning her…