Christian Nyby
Highest Rated: 100% Pursued (1947)
Lowest Rated: 67% Destination Tokyo (1943)
Birthday: Sep 1, 1913
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Thriller and action director of sporadic output whose debut film, the tense sci-fi classic, "The Thing" (1952), is often credited to its producer, Howard Hawks. Nyby went on to helm a handful of atmospheric sci-fi and action films through the 1960s.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 40% | Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal | Director | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | First to Fight | Director | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operation C.I.A. | Director | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Fury | Director | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza: The Stranger | Director | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza: The Avenger | Director | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Six-Gun Law | Director | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hell on Devil's Island | Director | - | 1957 |
| 86% | 73% | The Thing | Director | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Second Face | Film Editing | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Sunday Afternoon | Film Editing | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Fighter Squadron | Film Editing | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 87% | Red River | Film Editing | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Girl Tisa | Film Editing | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Cheyenne | Film Editing | - | 1947 |
| 100% | 82% | Pursued | Film Editing | - | 1947 |
| 80% | 41% | Cloak and Dagger | Film Editing | - | 1946 |
| 97% | 91% | The Big Sleep | Film Editing | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow of a Woman | Film Editing | - | 1946 |
| 95% | 90% | To Have and Have Not | Film Editing | - | 1944 |
| 67% | 65% | Destination Tokyo | Film Editing | - | 1943 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam-12 | Director | 1970-1972 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Director | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Director | 1967-1968 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Bonanza | Director | 1959-1964 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Director | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Director | 1965 |
| 90% | 65% | Gilligan's Island | Director | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Rawhide | Director | 1962-1964 |
| 84% | 95% | The Twilight Zone | Director | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Director | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Gunsmoke | Director | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Director | 1957-1958 1961-1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Whispering Smith | Director | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dante | Director | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Director | 1957-1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Roy Rogers Show | Director | 1953 1956-1957 |