Uncommon Valor’s director, the recently departed Ted Kotcheff, had already filmed Sylvester Stallone’s troubled war veteran running from a deadly run-in in First Blood just one year prior.

The movie was an immediate hit ... a professional football team starring Nick Nolte and Mac Davis; and “Uncommon Valor” (1983), the story of a retired Marine colonel (Gene Hackman) who ...

the Nick Nolte-Mac Davis dark pro football drama North Dallas Forty (1979); and the action flick Uncommon Valor (1983), starring Gene Hackman. Kotcheff and future Hill Street Blues co-creator ...

At 94 years old, Ted directed several successful movies in Tinseltown ... starring Jane Fonda and George Segal, as well as Uncommon Valor, which showcased the late Gene Hackman, who passed ...

Kotcheff’s other notable credits include “Fun With Dick and Jane,” which was his first American studio movie, “North Dallas Forty,” and “Uncommon Valor.” Kotcheff eventually ...

the Nick Nolte-Mac Davis dark pro football drama North Dallas Forty (1979); and the action flick Uncommon Valor (1983), starring Gene Hackman. Kotcheff and future Hill Street Blues co-creator Michael ...

It wasn’t until two decades later that Kotcheff came out with First Blood, widely considered to be his breakout movie ... the late Gene Hackman in Uncommon Valor (1983), a war action about ...

Ted Kotcheff, the director who introduced moviegoers to Sylvester Stallone's Rambo with 'First Blood' and helmed 'Weekend at Bernie's,' has died.

Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, best known for the cult classic Weekend at Bernie’s, has died at the age of 94. The filmmaker’s death was confirmed by his family to the Canadian outlet Globe and Mail.

After directing another Vietnam-concerned feature with “Uncommon Valor,” produced by John Milius and starring Gene Hackman, Kotcheff returned to comedies and notched another hit with 1989 ...