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Hugh Wilson
Writer 1943 - 2018 Would have turned 83 today

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 →

Filmography

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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.

Rough Riders

Rough Riders

1997 1h 32m

Explores the journey of the cavalry group led by Theodore Roosevelt in a charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.

Down Periscope

Down Periscope

David S. Ward 1996 1h 32m 6.1

Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days. With a crew that consists only of weirdo's, he's headed against the atomic powered USS Orlando, with the mission to destroy a dummy battleship.

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.

Stroker Ace

Stroker Ace

Hal Needham 1983 1h 34m 5.0

Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.

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