Arnold Laven
- Directing
- February 23, 1922 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- September 13, 2009
Biography
Arnold Laven was an American film and television director and producer. He was one of the founders and principals of the American film and television production company Levy-Gardner-Laven. Laven was a producer of, among other things, the long-running western television series The Rifleman and The Big Valley. He also directed motion pictures, including Without Warning!, The Rack, The Monster That Challenged the World, Geronimo, Rough Night in Jericho, and Sam Whiskey. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Laven directed dozens of episodes of television series, including episodes of Mannix, The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, The Rockford Files and CHiPs.
Known for
Filmography
- Hunter · Director
- The A-Team · Director
- Cassie & Co. · Director
- Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes · Director
- Back to the Planet of the Apes · Director
- CHiPs · Director
- Isis · Director
- Baretta · Director
- The Rockford Files · Director
- Planet of the Apes · Director
- Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love · Director
- The Six Million Dollar Man · Director
- The Magician · Director
- White Lightning · Producer
- Ghost Story · Director
- The Honkers · Producer
- Death Follows a Psycho · Director
- The Hunting Party · Executive producer
- Underground · Producer
- The Silent Force · Director
- Sam Whiskey · Director, Producer
- The Scalphunters · Producer
- Clambake · Producer
- Mannix · Director
- Rough Night in Jericho · Director
- The Glory Guys · Director, Producer
- Recoil · Executive producer
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · Director
- Geronimo · Director, Story
- Anna Lucasta · Director
- The Rifleman · Director
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue · Director
- The Monster That Challenged the World · Director
- The Vampire · Producer
- The Rack · Director
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Director
- Down Three Dark Streets · Director
- Vice Squad · Director
- Without Warning! · Director
- He Ran All the Way · Dialogue
- Teresa · Script Supervisor
- D.O.A. · Script Supervisor
- Hollow Triumph · Script Supervisor
- Mickey · Script Supervisor
- Stage 7 · Director, Creator