Barry Shear (March 23, 1923 in New York City â€" June 13, 1979 in Los
Angeles) was an American film director and producer.Shear began
directing for television in the 1950s for the DuMont Television
Network news program Newsweek Views the News, and directed episodes of
the DuMont series Guide Right, Not for Publication, and Joseph
Schildkraut Presents. He quickly moved to episodic television. Over
his 30-year career in television he directed both series and
telefilms. Series that he directed several episodes for include The
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Name of the Game,
Ironside, Alias Smith and Jones, Police Story, Police Woman, and The
Feather and Father Gang.Shear's first made-for-theaters feature was
the 1968 counter culture film Wild in the Streets. He later directed
theatrical films in various genres such as The Todd Killings in 1971
(based on the serial killer Charles Schmid), the blaxploitation film
Across 110th Street in 1972, and the western The Deadly Trackers in
1973. While well received, these features met with only fair box
office and Shear returned to work exclusively in television.On August
5, 1965, both Barry Shear and Jan Berry, of the singing duo, Jan &
Dean, were injured along with other film crew members while on the
first day on the set of a new Paramount motion picture, Easy Come,
Easy Go. Paramount would ultimately cancel the film and reuse the film
title the following year for an Elvis Presley film.
Angeles) was an American film director and producer.Shear began
directing for television in the 1950s for the DuMont Television
Network news program Newsweek Views the News, and directed episodes of
the DuMont series Guide Right, Not for Publication, and Joseph
Schildkraut Presents. He quickly moved to episodic television. Over
his 30-year career in television he directed both series and
telefilms. Series that he directed several episodes for include The
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Name of the Game,
Ironside, Alias Smith and Jones, Police Story, Police Woman, and The
Feather and Father Gang.Shear's first made-for-theaters feature was
the 1968 counter culture film Wild in the Streets. He later directed
theatrical films in various genres such as The Todd Killings in 1971
(based on the serial killer Charles Schmid), the blaxploitation film
Across 110th Street in 1972, and the western The Deadly Trackers in
1973. While well received, these features met with only fair box
office and Shear returned to work exclusively in television.On August
5, 1965, both Barry Shear and Jan Berry, of the singing duo, Jan &
Dean, were injured along with other film crew members while on the
first day on the set of a new Paramount motion picture, Easy Come,
Easy Go. Paramount would ultimately cancel the film and reuse the film
title the following year for an Elvis Presley film.
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