Name Richard Colla Role Film director | Spouse Denise Alexander Children Elizabeth Colla | |
Born April 18, 1936 (age 88) ( 1936-04-18 ) Occupation Film, television director and actor Nominations Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Movies Saga of a Star World, Danielle Steel's Zoya, Fuzz, Hidden In Silence, Love's Deadly Triangle Similar People Denise Alexander, Herbert Jefferson - Jr, Richard Hatch, Tony Swartz, John Colicos | ||
Richard A. Colla (born April 18, 1936) (sometimes credited as Dick Colla) is an American film, television director and actor.
On screen he played Tony Merritt #1 on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. His directorial credits include The Virginian, Battlestar Galactica, McCloud, Miami Vice, MacGyver, Hunter, Murder, She Wrote, Gunsmoke, Ironside, Trapper John, M.D. and other series.
He also directed the film Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978) starring Katharine Hepburn. He was originally considered to direct the film Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) but was replaced by the film's star Paul Newman.
For much of the 1990s, he directed a number of television films his last credit being Growing Up Brady (2000).
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