Dan Curtis
Daniel Mayer Cherkoss (August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006), known by his pen name Dan Curtis, was an American director and producer of television and film, best known for creating the horror soap Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows ran from 1966 to 1971 for a record-setting 1,225 episodes. Curtis also produced the 1991 revival, which was canceled after twelve episodes due to low ratings. He also served as executive producer for a WB reboot; however, it was canceled before the pilot episode aired. His series of macabre films include The Night Stalker (which inspired the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker), Intruders, The Night Strangler, House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Norliss Tapes (a 1973 pilot for an unproduced series starring Roy Thinnes), Curse of the Black Widow, Dead of Night, Scream of the Wolf, and others. He worked frequently with sci-fi/horror writer Richard Matheson. Curtis was producer and/or director of a number of television adaptations of horror-related productions including Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Turn of the Screw, all made between 1968 and 1975. In 1978, Curtis made a departure from his usual macabre offerings, when he wrote, produced, and directed the sentimental NBC television film When Every Day Was the Fourth of July. Although fictionalized, the film was semi-autobiographical, based on his childhood growing up in 1930s Bridgeport. The film was originally intended to be a pilot for a potential series, but when the series was not picked up by NBC, Curtis made a sequel, The Long Days of Summer, this time airing on ABC. In 1983, Curtis directed the epic seven-part miniseries The Winds of War, based on Herman Wouk's 1971 novel of the same name about the lives of the fictional Henry and Jastrow families as they intersect with the major global events of the early years of World War II. It won three Primetime Emmys (of 13 nominations) and was nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Miniseries or Television Film. The success spawned a 1988 sequel miniseries, War and Remembrance, also based on a novel by Wouk. Curtis died of a brain tumor in his home on March 27, 2006, two weeks after the death of his wife Norma. Curtis' rights to Dark Shadows remain with his estate, who have signed a deal with Warner Bros. for a new Dark Shadows film, which released in March 2012 to mixed reviews. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Curtis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Producer)
Frankenstein
(Screenplay)
The Night Strangler
(Director)
The Night Strangler
(Producer)
Burnt Offerings
(Director)
Burnt Offerings
(Producer)
Burnt Offerings
(Screenplay)
Our Fathers
(Director)
The Night Stalker
(Producer)
Trilogy of Terror II
(Director)
Trilogy of Terror II
(Writer)
Trilogy of Terror
(Director)
The Norliss Tapes
(Director)
Night of Dark Shadows
(Director)
Night of Dark Shadows
(Story)
House of Dark Shadows
(Director)
Curse of the Black Widow
(Director)
Dead of Night
(Director)
The Love Letter
(Director)
Dracula
(Director)
Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon
(Writer)
The Turn of the Screw
(Director)
The Kansas City Massacre
(Director)
Scream of the Wolf
(Director)
The Great Ice Rip-Off
(Director)
Melvin Purvis G-Man
(Director)
The Norliss Tapes
(Producer)
Me and the Kid
(Director)
Scream of the Wolf
(Producer)
Melvin Purvis G-Man
(Producer)
St. John in Exile
(Director)
The Love Letter
(Producer)
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
(Story)
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
(Director)
Mrs. R's Daughter
(Executive Producer)
Mrs. R's Daughter
(Director)
The Kansas City Massacre
(Producer)
House of Dark Shadows
(Producer)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Producer)
Express to Terror
(Executive Producer)
Express to Terror
(Director)
The Invasion of Carol Enders
(Producer)
Curse of the Black Widow
(Executive Producer)
Dead of Night
(Producer)
Dracula
(Producer)
Night of Dark Shadows
(Producer)
The Turn of the Screw
(Producer)
The Invasion of Carol Enders
(Director)
Trilogy of Terror
(Producer)
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
(Producer)
The Great Ice Rip-Off
(Producer)
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
(Director)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Producer)
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
(Creator)
Frankenstein
(Producer)
Saving Milly
(Director)
The Long Days of Summer
(Director)
Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse
(Executive Producer)
The Long Days of Summer
(Executive Producer)
Johnny Ryan
(Executive Producer)
Saving Milly
(Executive Producer)
Shadow of Fear
(Executive Producer)
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
(Executive Producer)
Come Die with Me
(Executive Producer)
Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon
(Producer)
Trilogy of Terror II
(Executive Producer)
Supertrain
(Director)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Director)
Dark Shadows
(Director)
The Winds of War
(Director)
The Winds of War
(Producer)
War and Remembrance
(Director)
War and Remembrance
(Executive Producer)
Intruders
(Executive Producer)
Intruders
(Director)
Dark Shadows
(Director)
War and Remembrance
(Writer)
Frankenstein
(Screenplay)
Frankenstein
(Producer)
Dark Shadows
(Teleplay)
Dark Shadows
(Writer)
Supertrain
(Executive Producer)
Dark Shadows
(Creator)
Dark Shadows
(Creator)
The Winds of War
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