Actor
Russ Doughten
February 16, 1927
Russell S. Doughten Jr. (February 16, 1927 – August 19, 2013) was an American film-maker and producer of numerous short and feature-length Christian films. His film work is credited under numerous variations of his name: with or without the "Jr." suffix or middle initial, and sometimes using the informal "Russ" instead of "Russell". Nearly all of his Christian films were shot in various locales in his home state of Iowa.
While he worked on films, most notably as producer and director (uncredited) of the 1958 sci-fi/horror classic The Blob, he was best known for the religious Thief In The Night series, which dramatizes the Rapture and Second Coming of Christ and the struggles of a small band of believers against an increasingly hostile worldwide Antichrist dictatorship.
Often works with
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Thom Rachford
5 titles together
A Thief in the Night, Image of the Beast, A Distant Thunder
William Wellman Jr.
3 titles together
Image of the Beast, The Prodigal Planet, Brother Enemy
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Patty Dunning
3 titles together
A Thief in the Night, Image of the Beast, A Distant Thunder
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Maryann Rachford
3 titles together
A Thief in the Night, Image of the Beast, A Distant Thunder
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Herb Brown
3 titles together
Image of the Beast, A Distant Thunder, The Prodigal Planet
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Colleen Niday
2 titles together
A Thief in the Night, A Distant Thunder
Full filmography · 16
The Healing
Director
1983
The Prodigal Planet
as Reverend Matthew Turner
1983
Brother Enemy
Director
1981
Image of the Beast
as Reverend Matthew Turner
1981Home Safe
Writer
1981Whitcomb's War
Director
1980
Nite Song
Director
1978
A Distant Thunder
as Reverend Matthew Turner
1978
Sammy
Director
1977All the King's Horses
Writer
1977Happiness Is...
Director
1975
Survival
Writer
1975