Vincent Michael McEveety was an American film and television director and television producer.
McEveety directed numerous films for Disney, including The Million Dollar Duck, The Biscuit Eater, Superdad, The Strongest Man in the World, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, and Herbie Goes Bananas. McEveety also directed portions of The Watcher in the Woods.[2]
Career[]
McEveety directed numerous Emmy Award-winning television series, including The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, six Star Trek episodes (including "Dagger of the Mind", "Balance of Terror", "Patterns of Force", and "Spectre of the Gun"), Magnum, P.I., How the West Was Won, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Stranger at My Door, Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury, In the Heat of the Night, and Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick Van Dyke.
From 1994 through 1997, McEveety produced the television series Columbo starring Peter Falk, for which he also directed seven episodes between 1990 and 1997. Homage was paid to his contributions to the series by a humorous mention of a character having his surname in the Columbo episode "Undercover" (which he directed).
Filmography[]
As director, except as noted:
Trivia[]
- His brothers Bernard and Joseph also had worked for Disney's various projects.
