Howard Zieff

Howard Zieff (21 October 1927 – 22 February 2009) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Zieff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Private Benjamin (1980)

A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Goldie Hawn  •  Eileen Brennan  •  Armand Assante  •  Robert Webber

A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Goldie Hawn  •  Eileen Brennan  •  Armand Assante  •  Robert Webber

My Girl (1991)

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Anna Chlumsky  •  Macaulay Culkin  •  Dan Aykroyd  •  Jamie Lee Curtis

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Anna Chlumsky  •  Macaulay Culkin  •  Dan Aykroyd  •  Jamie Lee Curtis

My Girl 2 (1994)

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Dan Aykroyd  •  Jamie Lee Curtis  •  Anna Chlumsky  •  Austin O'Brien

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Dan Aykroyd  •  Jamie Lee Curtis  •  Anna Chlumsky  •  Austin O'Brien

The Dream Team (1989)

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Michael Keaton  •  Christopher Lloyd  •  Peter Boyle  •  Stephen Furst

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Michael Keaton  •  Christopher Lloyd  •  Peter Boyle  •  Stephen Furst

The Main Event (1979)

Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Barbra Streisand  •  Ryan O'Neal  •  Paul Sand  •  Whitman Mayo

Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Barbra Streisand  •  Ryan O'Neal  •  Paul Sand  •  Whitman Mayo

Hearts of the West (1975)

Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Jeff Bridges  •  Alan Arkin  •  Blythe Danner  •  Andy Griffith

Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Jeff Bridges  •  Alan Arkin  •  Blythe Danner  •  Andy Griffith

House Calls (1978)

Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Walter Matthau  •  Art Carney  •  Richard Benjamin  •  Candice Azzara

Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Walter Matthau  •  Art Carney  •  Richard Benjamin  •  Candice Azzara

Unfaithfully Yours (1984)

A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Dudley Moore  •  Nastassja Kinski  •  Armand Assante  •  Albert Brooks

A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  Dudley Moore  •  Nastassja Kinski  •  Armand Assante  •  Albert Brooks

The Lion Roars Again (1975)

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Haley Jr.
CAST:  Michael Anderson  •  Fred Astaire  •  Army Archerd  •  Francis Ford Coppola

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Haley Jr.
CAST:  Michael Anderson  •  Fred Astaire  •  Army Archerd  •  Francis Ford Coppola

Slither (1973)

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  James Caan  •  Peter Boyle  •  Sally Kellerman  •  Louise Lasser

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Howard Zieff
CAST:  James Caan  •  Peter Boyle  •  Sally Kellerman  •  Louise Lasser