Boris Sagal(1923-1981)

Boris Sagal was born on 18 October 1923 in Yekaterinoslav, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for The Omega Man (1971), The Name of the Game (1968) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). He was married to Marge Champion and Sara Macon. He died on 22 May 1981 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

6.4

7.6

TV Series

8.2

TV Mini Series

6.2

TV Movie

World War III
6.5
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 1982
Dial 'M' for Murder
6.4
TV Movie
- Director
- 1981
Masada
7.8
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 1981
When the Circus Came to Town
6.9
TV Movie
- Director
- 1981
The Diary of Anne Frank
6.7
TV Movie
- Director
- 1980
Ike: The War Years
7.0
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 1979
Ike: The War Years
7.0
- Director (all scenes filmed in Europe directed by)
- 1979
Mrs. Columbo
5.6
TV Series
- Director
- 1979
The Awakening Land
8.2
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 1978
Angela
5.6
- Director
- 1977
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers
7.0
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 1976
Sherlock Holmes in New York
5.8
TV Movie
- Director
- 1976
Rich Man, Poor Man
8.2
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 1976
Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
7.4
TV Movie
- Director
- 1976
The Oregon Trail
7.2
TV Series
- Director
- 1976

Trivia
He was killed early in the production of the TV film World War III (1982) in a helicopter accident in Oregon. He had just returned from filming aerial shots, his helicopter landing in the parking lot of the Timberline lodge on Mt. Hood (the exteriors location from The Shining (1980)). Preoccupied with his work, he inadvertently turned the wrong way upon getting out of the helicopter, walking directly into the rear rotor blade; he died of severe head and shoulder injuries after emergency surgery 60 miles away in Portland. Astonishingly, filming resumed the very next day with a new director.