Sandy Howard (August 1, 1927 – May 16, 2008) was an American film producer and television producer.
A native of the Bronx, New York City, Howard wrote short stories for publication in magazines like Liberty, and worked as a publicist for Broadway shows until he became a director for the Howdy Doody show at the age of nineteen; he later produced the Captain Kangaroo show.
He cooperated with Ray Heatherton creating the TV show The Merry Mailman in the early 1950s. He was producer of The Barry Gray Radio Show (1951–1958).
In the 1960s, Howard moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in film.
Among his film productions are A Man Called Horse (1970) and Man in the Wilderness (1971).
He contributed as writer on Vice Squad (1982).
He developed Alzheimers and spent the last ten years of his life as a resident at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, in the Alzheimer's and dementia care facility, Harry's Haven. He died in 2008.
The Howdy Doody Show (1947-59) (TV series) - director
Night Court USA (1958) (TV series) - producer, director, writer, creator
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) - director
Police Station (1959) (TV series) - producer, director, writer
Congressional Investigator (1959) (TV series) - director
'Harrigan and Son (1960-61) (TV series) - producer
Mack & Myer for Hire (1963-64) (TV series) - producer
Diary of a Bachelor (1964) - producer, director
City of Fear (1965) - producer
Gamera the Invincible (1966) - director of US sequences
Jack of Diamonds (1967) - producer, writer
One Step to Hell (1968) - producer, director, writer
A Man Called Horse (1970) - producer
Man in the Wilderness (1971) - producer
The Neptune Factor (1973) - producer
Together Brothers (1974) - executive producer
The Devil's Rain (1975) - executive producer
Embryo (1976) - executive producer
Sky Riders (1976) - executive producer
Captain Kangaroo (1976) (TV series) - producer
The Island of Dr Moreau (1977) - executive producer
Echoes of a Summer (1976) - producer
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) - executive producer
Circle of Iron (1978) - producer
Meteor (1979) - executive producer
Jaguar Lives! (1979) - producer
City on Fire (1979) - executive producer
Savage Harvest (1981) - producer
Vice Squad (1982) - executive producer
Hambone and Hillie (1983) - producer
Deadly Force (1983) - producer
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983) - executive producer
Angel (1984) - executive producer
What Waits Below (1984) - producer
Avenging Angel (1985) - producer
The Boys Next Door (1985) - producer
KGB: The Secret War (1985) - producer
Hollywood Vice Squad (1986) - producer, writer
Nightstick (1987) - executive producer
Kidnapped (1987) - producer
Street Justice (1987) - executive producer
Blue Monkey (1987) - executive producer
Dark Tower (1989) - producer (uncredited)
The Bronze Wrangler from the 1971 Western Heritage Awards, for A Man Called Horse (shared with director Elliot Silverstein, writer Jack DeWitt, and actors Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Corinna Tsopei and Richard Harris).
