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Edward Montagne

Born May 20, 1912 · New York City, New York, USA

Died December 15, 2003 · aged 91

Edward Montagne was an American film and television director and producer known for his work in comedy. Born in New York City, he began his career in the 1940s, directing and producing numerous television series and films. Montagne is best remembered for producing and directing the classic television series The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959) and McHale's Navy (1962–1966). His work was characterized…

Known For

Spider-Man

Spider-Man · 1977

MovieScience FictionAction

When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken · 1966

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

MovieComedyFamily

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

How to Frame a Figg

How to Frame a Figg · 1971

How to Frame a Figg

MovieComedyFamily

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.

The Love God?

The Love God? · 1969

Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.

The Munsters' Revenge

The Munsters' Revenge · 1981

The Munsters' Revenge

MovieComedyCrime

The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster robots, including clones of Herman and Grandpa.

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West · 1968

The Shakiest Gun in the West

MovieComedyFamily

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

The Crash of Flight 401

The Crash of Flight 401 · 1978

The Crash of Flight 401

MovieDramaTV Movie

True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.

The Man with My Face

The Man with My Face · 1951

The Man with My Face

MovieThrillerMystery

A man discovers that an evil twin has taken over his life.

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man · 1977

MovieScience FictionAction

When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man.

Producer

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken · 1966

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

MovieComedyFamily

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

Producer

How to Frame a Figg

How to Frame a Figg · 1971

How to Frame a Figg

MovieComedyFamily

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.

Story

The Love God?

The Love God? · 1969

Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.

Producer

The Munsters' Revenge

The Munsters' Revenge · 1981

The Munsters' Revenge

MovieComedyCrime

The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster robots, including clones of Herman and Grandpa.

Executive Producer

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West · 1968

The Shakiest Gun in the West

MovieComedyFamily

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

Producer

The Crash of Flight 401

The Crash of Flight 401 · 1978

The Crash of Flight 401

MovieDramaTV Movie

True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.

Producer

The Man with My Face

The Man with My Face · 1951

The Man with My Face

MovieThrillerMystery

A man discovers that an evil twin has taken over his life.

Director

P.J.

MovieActionDrama

Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen.

Story

Second Chorus

Second Chorus · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

Assistant Director

McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy · 1964

The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners.

Director

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force · 1965

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.

Director

It's a Gift

It's a Gift · 1934

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

Assistant Director

The Million Dollar Rip-Off

The Million Dollar Rip-Off · 1976

The Million Dollar Rip-Off

MovieCrimeThriller

An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority. A detective, who had been keeping tabs on him since he got out of prison, suspects that he is up to something and tries to catch him at it.

Producer

All-American Co-Ed

All-American Co-Ed · 1941

All-American Co-Ed

MovieComedyMusic

Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!

Assistant Director

The Villain Still Pursued Her

The Villain Still Pursued Her · 1940

The Villain Still Pursued Her

MovieComedyRomance

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.

Assistant Director

Hay Foot

Hay Foot · 1942

MovieRomanceComedy

Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.

Assistant Director

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way · 1978

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.

Director

Terror on the 40th Floor

Terror on the 40th Floor · 1974

Terror on the 40th Floor

MovieDramaTV Movie

A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.

Story

Short Walk to Daylight

Short Walk to Daylight · 1972

Short Walk to Daylight

MovieDramaTV Movie

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

Story

Angel in My Pocket

Angel in My Pocket · 1969

Angel in My Pocket

MovieComedyFamily

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

Producer

A Very Missing Person

A Very Missing Person · 1972

A Very Missing Person

MovieMysteryComedy

An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

Producer

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You · 1971

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

MovieMysteryCrime

Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.

Executive Producer

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane · 1980

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane

MovieWesternTV Movie

Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.

Producer

Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E. · 1976

SeriesCrimeDrama

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

Producer

Broadside

Broadside · 1964

Lt. Anne Morgan and her fellow Waves are posted to the backwater station on Ranakai, much to the displeasure of Commander Adrian. So his South Seas idyll, including gourmet cook, isn't disrupted has Adrian scheming to transfer the women.

Producer

Man Against Crime

Man Against Crime · 1949

Man Against Crime

SeriesCrimeDrama

Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949 to August 26, 1956. The show was created by Lawrence Klee and Paul Alter and was broadcast live until 1952. It was also directed by Paul Alter. The series was one of the few television programs ever to have been simulcast on more than one network: the program aired on both NBC and DuMont during the 1953-1954 television season.

Director