Vincent McEveety

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Vincent McEveety
Born	Vincent Michael McEveety (1929-08-10) August 10, 1929 Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Film Director Television Producer - Director
Years active	1957–2000

Vincent Michael McEveety (born August 10, 1929) is an American director and producer.

Career

Vince McEveety has directed numerous Emmy Award winning television series, including The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, six Star Trek (episode include "Dagger of the Mind", "Balance of Terror", "Patterns of Force" and "Spectre of the Gun"), Magnum, P.I., How the West Was Won, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Stranger at My Door, Murder, She Wrote, and Diagnosis: Murder, starring Dick Van Dyke.

In 1991, McEveety directed the award-winning episode of the NBC television series In the Heat of the Night, entitled Sweet, Sweet Blues, guest starring musician Bobby Short and veteran actor James Best. That year Heat won its first NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Dramatic Series and James Best won the Crystal Reel Award for Best Actor.^[1]^[2]

From 1994 through 1997, McEveety produced^{[citation needed]} the television series Columbo starring Peter Falk, for which he also directed seven episodes between 1990 and 1997.

McEveety directed numerous films for Walt Disney Pictures, including The Million Dollar Duck, The Biscuit Eater, Superdad, The Strongest Man in the World, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and Herbie Goes Bananas. McEveety also directed portions of The Watcher in the Woods.^[3]

His film, Firecreek (1968), starring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens, touchs on issues previously ignored by the genre and influenced a generation of filmmakers.^[4]

In 1974, McEveety returned to the Western genre with The Castaway Cowboy, starring James Garner and Vera Miles.^[5]

References

↑ "Image Awards". imdb.com. 1992. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
↑ "The Florida Motion Picture and Television Association Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient". Florida Office of Film and Entertainment. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/127142%7C151381/Vincent-McEveety/filmography-with-synopsis.html
↑ http://www.allrovi.com/name/p102090
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071288/

External links

Vincent McEveety at the Internet Movie Database
Vincent McEveety at AllRovi

v t e Films directed by Vincent McEveety

1960s	Firecreek (1968)

1970s	The Million Dollar Duck (1971) The Biscuit Eater (1972) Charley and the Angel (1973) Superdad (1973) The Castaway Cowboy (1974) The Strongest Man in the World (1975) Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) Gus (1976) Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)

1980s	Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) Amy (1981) Ask Max (1986)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 7582465 LCCN: n97070734 GND: 1025498909 BNF: cb139798181

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Name	McEveety, Vincent
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Date of birth	August 10, 1929
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
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