Sam Weiss

Biography

Career Overview

Sam Weiss has 24 screen credits in a career dating back to 1954. Signature works include Wrong Way Kid, The Reluctant Dragon, Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

24

Birth Date

1926-09-14 00:00:00

Known For

• Wrong Way Kid
• The Reluctant Dragon
• 

  Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
• Beauty and the Beast
• Creole
• The Furious Flycycle

Frequent Collaborators

• Nick Bosustow (3 collaborations)
• June Foray (3 collaborations)
• Greg Schorer (3 collaborations)
• Lars Floden (3 collaborations)
• Sparky Marcus (2 collaborations)
• Larry Wolff (2 collaborations)
• Claire Bloom (2 collaborations)
• James Earl Jones (2 collaborations)
• Michael York (2 collaborations)
• Lawrence Levy (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (21 credits)

  • Wrong Way Kid

    director

    directing
    1983
  • The Reluctant Dragon

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Beauty and the Beast

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Creole

    director

    directing
    1981
  • The Furious Flycycle

    director

    directing
    1980
  • The Incredible Book Escape

    director

    directing
    1980
  • Ghost in the Shed

    director

    directing
    1980
  • To Try Again... and Succeed

    director

    directing
    1979
  • Nate the Great Goes Undercover

    director

    directing
    1978
  • Hans in Luck

    director

    directing
    1978
  • The Youth Who Wanted to Shiver

    director

    directing
    1978
  • Teenagers Talk: Getting through Adolescence

    director

    directing
    1975
  • The Legend of John Henry

    director

    directing
    1974
  • Metric Meets the Inchworm

    director

    directing
    1974
  • The Cave

    director

    directing
    1973
  • The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles

    director

    directing
    1973
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    director

    directing
    1972
  • Freedom River

    director

    directing
    1971
  • The Fisherman and His Wife

    director

    directing
    1969
  • Little Boy Bad

    director

    directing
    1964

• visual effects (1 credits)

  • Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody

    animation director

    visual effects
    1982

• art (1 credits)

  • Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

    production design

    art
    1962

• crew (1 credits)

  • The Fast and the Furious

    supervising technical director

    crew
    1954