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Arnold Laven
b. 1922 — d. 2009 (aged 87)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Director
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
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★ 6.5
Lady Blue
1985 Director
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★ 6.9
Hunter
1984 Director
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★ 6.8
Riptide
1984 Director
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★ 6.9
The New Mike Hammer
1984 Director
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★ 7.5
The A-Team
1983 Director
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★ 6.6
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983 Director
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★ 7.6
The Rousters
1983 Director
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★ 6.1
Cassie & Co.
1982 Director
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★ 8.2
Hill Street Blues
1981 Director
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★ 7.3
The Greatest American Hero
1981 Director
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★ 5.4
Back to the Planet of the Apes
1980 Director
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★ 7.5
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980 Director
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★ 5.5
Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
1980 Director
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★ 6.1
Freebie and the Bean
1980 Director
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The Yeagers
1980 Director
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★ 6.5
Time Express
1979 Director
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★ 5.9
Paris
1979 Director
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★ 7.0
Friends
1979 Director
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★ 5.9
Turnabout
1979 Director
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★ 7.1
Richie Brockelman, Private Eye
1978 Director
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★ 6.5
CHiPs
1977 Director
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★ 6.6
Fantasy Island
1977 Director
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★ 6.6
Eight Is Enough
1977 Director
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★ 6.2
Dog and Cat
1977 Director
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★ 6.9
Rafferty
1977 Director
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★ 6.7
Delvecchio
1976 Director
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★ 6.7
Baretta
1975 Director
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★ 6.7
The Secrets of Isis
1975 Director
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★ 7.1
Switch
1975 Director
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★ 5.6
Archer
1975 Director
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★ 5.6
Mobile One
1975 Director
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★ 7.1
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974 Director
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★ 8.2
The Rockford Files
1974 Director
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★ 7.0
Planet of the Apes
1974 Director
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★ 6.6
Police Woman
1974 Director
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★ 6.5
Shazam!
1974 Director
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★ 8.5
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
1974 Director
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★ 7.5
The Magician
1973 Director
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★ 5.9
Griff
1973 Director
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★ 7.6
Circle of Fear
1972 Director
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Death Follows A Psycho
1972 Writer
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★ 7.0
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
1971 Director
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★ 7.1
Dan August
1970 Director
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★ 5.8
The Silent Force
1970 Director
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★ 5.9
Sam Whiskey
1969 Director
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★ 7.0
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 Director
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★ 7.0
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969 Director
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★ 7.4
Mannix
1967 Director
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★ 6.9
Ironside
1967 Director
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★ 6.4
Rough Night in Jericho
1967 Director
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★ 7.6
The Big Valley
1965 Director
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★ 7.4
The F.B.I.
1965 Director
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★ 6.1
The Glory Guys
1965 Director
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★ 7.1
Breaking Point
1963 Director
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★ 8.5
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 Director
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★ 5.8
Geronimo
1962 Director
Writer
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★ 7.5
The Detectives
1959 Director
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★ 8.3
The Rifleman
1958 Director
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★ 6.8
Anna Lucasta
1958 Director
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★ 7.6
Wagon Train
1957 Director
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★ 5.7
The Monster That Challenged the World
1957 Director
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★ 6.7
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
1957 Director
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★ 6.8
The Rack
1956 Director
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★ 7.5
Zane Grey Theatre
1956 Director
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★ 7.1
Telephone Time
1956 Director
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★ 6.5
Chevron Hall of Stars
1956 Director
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★ 6.7
Ethel Barrymore Theater
1956 Director
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★ 8.5
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 Director
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★ 8.1
Gunsmoke
1955 Director
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★ 6.9
TV Reader's Digest
1955 Director
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★ 7.1
Celebrity Playhouse
1955 Director
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★ 6.9
Stage 7
1955 Director
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★ 6.6
Down Three Dark Streets
1954 Director
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★ 6.8
Vice Squad
1953 Director
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★ 6.6
Without Warning!
1952 Director
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★ 7.2
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 Director
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★ 7.6
Schlitz Playhouse
1951 Director
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★ 7.5
Racket Squad
1950 Director