Director · Writer · Actor · 1912 to 1991
Don Siegel
Best rated (directing): Escape from Alcatraz (7.5)
- Directing films
- 31
- Directing avg
- 6.61
- Peak run
- 1971’76
- 7+ run
- 4 films
Directing films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As a director, films with 25+ votes
Don by the numbers
Average
6.61
26 rated films
Vote weighted
6.72
bigger films count more
Median
6.6
half are better
Consistency
±0.66
rating spread
Career
38y
1945 to 1982
Total votes
11.2K
across every film
Best
7.5
Escape from Alcatraz
Worst
6.3
Coogan's Bluff
Newest first
Filmography
| 1982 |  Jinxed! | 4.5 | 27 |
| 1980 |  Rough Cut | 5.8 | 46 |
| 1979 |  Escape from Alcatraz | 7.5 | 3,311 |
| 1977 |  Telefon | 6.6 | 137 |
| 1976 |  The Shootist | 7.1 | 396 |
| 1974 |  The Black Windmill | 6.3 | 99 |
| 1973 |  Charley Varrick | 7.4 | 300 |
| 1971 |  Dirty Harry | 7.5 | 2,875 |
| 1971 |  The Beguiled | 7.0 | 525 |
| 1970 |  Two Mules for Sister Sara | 7.0 | 714 |
| 1969 |  Death of a Gunfighter | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1968 |  Coogan's Bluff | 6.3 | 391 |
| 1968 |  Madigan | 6.2 | 91 |
| 1964 |  The Killers | 6.9 | 211 |
| 1962 |  Hell Is for Heroes | 6.5 | 140 |
| 1960 | Flaming Star | 6.5 | 102 |
| 1959 |  Edge of Eternity | 6.7 | 33 |
| 1958 |  The Gun Runners | · | 19 |
| 1958 |  The Lineup | 7.1 | 99 |
| 1957 |  Baby Face Nelson | 5.6 | 29 |
Better together?
Don Siegel's regulars
- Clint EastwoodDirector and actor · 5 films · 7.05 avg▲+0.37
- Lalo SchifrinComposer · 5 films · 6.94 avg
- Bruce SurteesCinematographer · 4 films · 7.26 avg
- Daniel MainwaringWriter · 4 films · 6.55 avg▲+0.07
- Jack ElamDirector and actor · 4 films · 5.60 avg▼−0.89
- Richard CollinsWriter · 3 films · 7.08 avg▲+0.53
- Dean RiesnerWriter · 3 films · 7.04 avg▲+0.56
- Clint EastwoodWriter · 3 films · 6.92 avg▲+0.05
- Harry GuardinoDirector and actor · 3 films · 6.72 avg▲+0.22
- Hal MohrCinematographer · 3 films · 6.35 avg
- William LavaComposer · 2 films
- Saul ElkinsWriter · 2 films
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood movies · Don Siegel and Lalo Schifrin movies · Don Siegel and Bruce Surtees movies · Don Siegel and Daniel Mainwaring movies
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