He won his first Emmy award for Call Med Daddy, a 1967 TV film that starred Donald Pleasance and Judy Cornwell. In 1973, Rakoff directed The Adventures of Don Quioxte, starring Rex Harrison and ...

Rakoff won his first Emmy Award for Call Me Daddy (1967), starring Donald Pleasance and Judy Cornwell. The production later ...

You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.

in which Donald Pleasence played a creepy middle-aged businessman who blackmails a typist (Judy Cornwell) into spending a week with him. The following year Rakoff directed the production when ...

Alvin Rakoff, the veteran Canadian director who helped kick-start the careers of stars including Sean Connery and Michael ...

Extraordinary performances by Peter O'Toole and Susannah York in this tale of an alcoholic Scots aristocrat and his incestuous love for his sister. Douglas: Michael Craig. Dr. Maitland: Cyril Cusack.

Farce about the world's first moon rocket. Terry-Thomas, Burl Ives, Gert Frobe, Troy Donahue, Hermione Gingold. Bulgeroff: Klaus Kinski. Madelaine: Daliah Lavi ...

Alvin Rakoff, the Canadian director who directed 'A Voyage Round My Father' and 'Shades of Greene,' has died. He was 97.

Rakoff won his first Emmy Award for Call Me Daddy (1967), starring Donald Pleasance and Judy Cornwell. The production later transferred to the big screen where it was re-titled Hoffman (1970 ...

Rakoff, who was also a one-time president of the Directors Guild, won Emmy awards for "Call Me Daddy" (1967), starring Donald Pleasance and Judy Cornwell, and "A Voyage Round My Father," which he ...

The Emmy-winning filmmaker worked mostly in Britain with Sean Connery, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Judi Dench and Michael Caine ...