In addition he directed or produced over 180 films including movies of the week "The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal", "Bill", "The Chisholms", and "Ruby and Oswald", the television series "Ripley's Believe It or Not", and the documentaries "The Making of the President 1960", "1964", and "1968", "The Hobart Shakespeareans", "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "Man Ray — The Prophet of the Avant-Garde", "George Plimpton and the Philharmonic", and "The Poet's View". He was also nominated for the made-for-TV production "Bill", starring Mickey Rooney.