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Richard A. Colla (born April 18, 1936)[1] (sometimes credited as Dick Colla) is an American film, television director and actor.

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Richard A. Colla
Born	(1936-04-18) April 18, 1936 (age 86)
Other names	Dick Colla
Occupation	Film director, television director, actor
Years active	1962–2000
Spouse	Denise Alexander

On screen he played Tony Merritt 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 directed the feature films Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978) starring Katharine Hepburn and Fuzz (1972) starring Burt Reynolds and Zig Zag (1970) starring George Kennedy. He was originally under consideration to direct the film Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) but was replaced by the film's star Paul Newman.[2]

For much of the 1990s, he directed a number of television films his last credit being Growing Up Brady (2000).[3]

Filmography

• Zig Zag (1970)
• Fuzz (1972)
• The Questor Tapes (1974)
• Live Again, Die Again (1974)
• The UFO Incident (1975)
• Battlestar Galactica (1978)
• Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978)
• Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981)
• Something Is Out There (1988)
• Blind Witness (1989)
• Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993)
• Web of Deception (1994)
• Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (1997)
• Ultimate Deception (1999)
• Blue Valley Songbird (1999)
• Growing Up Brady (2000)

References

External links

• Richard A. Colla at IMDb
• Richard A. Colla at the TCM Movie Database
• Richard A. Colla at BattlestarWiki.org

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