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Hugh Wilson
Director 1943 - 2018

Hugh Wilson

Miami, Florida, USA

Hugh Wilson (August 21, 1943 - January 14, 2018) was an American director, writer and actor. He was best known as the creator and executive producer of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place. Hugh was a distinguished alumnus from the College of Journalism and... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

5 titles
Dudley Do-Right

Dudley Do-Right

Hugh Wilson 1999 1h 17m 4.8

Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets.

Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past

Hugh Wilson 1999 1h 52m 5.8

Adam is the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.

The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club

Hugh Wilson 1996 1h 42m 6.2

Three friends get dumped by their husbands. All husbands leave their wive for a younger woman. The friends swere to take revenge and form the first wives club.

Guarding Tess

Guarding Tess

Hugh Wilson 1994 1h 36m 4.7

A former U.S. First Lady wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.

Police Academy

Police Academy

Hugh Wilson 1984 1h 37m 6.9

A group of good-hearted but incompotent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.

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