Highest rated movie: Treasure Island (1950)
Lowest rated movie: Conquest of Space (1955)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Byron Haskin? Cinafilm has a total of 678 reviews across 13 movies directed by Byron Haskin.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 58%.
Treasure Island is Byron Haskin's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 3 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Byron Haskin is Conquest of Space, with a score of 46% based on 5 reviews.
Byron Conrad Haskin was an American film and television director. He was born in Portland, Oregon.
He is remembered today for directing 1953's The War of the Worlds, one of many films where he teamed with producer George Pal. In his early career, he was a special effects artist, with a number of credits on Warner Bros. films, an asset when directing the killer ants film The Naked Jungle and the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Haskin also worked as a cinematographer and producer.
His career in television included directing six episodes of the original The Outer Limits, including two highly regarded episodes, "The Architects of Fear" and "Demon with a Glass Hand". He also co-produced the original Star Trek pilot episode, "The Cage".
Haskin appeared as an interviewee on-screen in the 1980 documentary Hollywood series by Kevin Brownlow. Haskin died in Montecito, California six days before his 85th birthday.
Byron Haskin has directed films starring John Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger and Burt Lancaster.
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