Joseph Pevney

Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director.

Biography Born in New York City, Star Trek NBC executive Herb Solow and executive co-producer Robert Justman write, in their 1996 book Star Trek The Real Story, of Pevney: Joseph Pevney was an ex-actor turned director. Some former actors become good directors; some become hack directors. Pevney was the former, but more than just "good." with whom he had four children. His second wife, whom he married in 1989, was Philippa Goodwin-Pevney (née Hilber, 1918–1996). He married Margo Yvette Collins in 2002.

On May 18, 2008, Pevney died at his home in Palm Desert, California, at age 96.

Selected filmography As actor: Nocturne (1946) as Fingers Body and Soul (1947) as Shorty Polaski The Street with No Name (1948) as Matty Thieves' Highway (1949) as Pete Outside the Wall (1950) as Gus Wormser Shakedown (1950) as Keller, the reporter (uncredited, final film role)

As director: Shakedown (1950) Undercover Girl (1950) The Iron Man (1951) The Lady from Texas (1951) The Strange Door (1951) Air Cadet (1951) Flesh and Fury (1952) Meet Danny Wilson (1952) Because of You (1952) Just Across the Street (1952) Desert Legion (1953) Back to God's Country (1953) It Happens Every Thursday (1953) Yankee Pasha (1954) Playgirl (1954) 3 Ring Circus (1954) Six Bridges to Cross (1955) Foxfire (1955) Female on the Beach (1955) Away All Boats (1956) Congo Crossing (1956) Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) The Midnight Story (1957) Istanbul (1957) Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) Torpedo Run (1958) Twilight for the Gods (1958) Cash McCall (1959) The Crowded Sky (1960) The Plunderers (1960) Portrait of a Mobster (1961) The Night of the Grizzly (1966) Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)