Walter E. Grauman (born March 17, 1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American director of stage shows, theatrical films and television shows.

Grauman lived in Wisconsin and in Arizona as a child before moving to California. Grauman served for 4 years in the United States Air Force (the called the Army Air Corps) before returning home and taking a job as stage manager at a Los Angeles television netowrk. In 1957, Grauman turned to films, directing "The Disembodied" for Allied Artists, which was headed by friend Walter Mirisch. Although he only directed five theatrical films, Grauman did a great deal of television work which included directing the pilot episode of "The Fugitive".

He now resides in Los Angeles with his wife. He is among the closest living realitives to Sid Grauman , owner and founder of Los Angeles' famous Grauman's Chinese Theater, Egyptian Theater and Million Dollar Theater .

Directorial Credits, theatrical films

Lady in a Cage, Paramount

633 Squadron, Mirisch/UA

A Rage to Live, Mirisch/UA

The Last Escape, Mirisch/UA

I Deal in Danger, 20th Century Fox

The Disembodied, Allied Artists

Pilots and television Series

Columbo

The Untouchables

The Fugitive (Pilot)

Streets of San Francisco (Pilot)

Barnaby Jones (Pilot)

East Side, West Side

Naked City

The New Breed (Pilot)

Route 66

Honey West (Pilot)

Manhunter (Pilot)

Most Wanted (Pilot)

Bare Essence (Pilot)

Harrigan & Son (Pilot)

Silent Force (Pilot)

Scene of the Crime (Pilot)

Murder She Wrote, 53 one hour Episodes

Plus over 275 1-hour Filmed Dramatic Programs, including:

V

Trapper John M.D.

Twelve O'clock High

11th Hour

Lancer

Hotel de Paris

Man Without a Gun

Colt 45

Cover Up

Steve Canyon

Peter Gunn

Burkes Law

The June Allyson Show

Empire

Live Television Drama

Eighty Matinee Theatre l-hour Programs

Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse

Philco Playhouse

Director/Creator/Executive Producer

Blue Light - Series, ABC

Felony Squad - Series, ABC

Six Movies-of-the-Week, ABC

World Premiere, NBC

Eleven Two-Hour Movies, CBS

Movies for Television and Mini-Series

The Forgotten Man - Director/Producer/Creator

Daughter of the Mind - Director/Executive Producer

Crowhaven Farm - Director/Producer

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf - Director/Producer

Dead Men Tell No Tales - Director/Executive Producer

Paper Man - Director/Executive Producer

Daughter of the Mind - Director/Executive Producer

They Call It Murder - Director/Executive Producer

Nightmare on the 13th Floor - Executive Producer/Director

Movies for Television and Mini Series - Director

Are You In The House Alone? - 2 hrs

Crisis in Mid Air - 2 hrs

Golden Gate Murders - David Janssen/Susanne York, 2 hrs, CBS

Irwin Shaw's Top of the Hill - Wayne Rodgers, 4 hrs

Memory of Eva Ryker- Natalie Wood, 3 hrs, CBS

Pleasure Palace - Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, 2 hrs, CBS

Outrage - 2 hrs, CBS

Force Five - 2 hrs, ABC

The Covenant - Jose Ferrer, 2 hrs, NBC

CBS Movies and Mini-Series - Director/Producer

To Race the Wind - Steve Guttenberg - 2 hrs, CBS

Valley of the Dolls, 1981 - 5 hrs, CBS

Bare Essence - 2 hrs, CBS

Illusions - 2 hrs, CBS

Who is Julia? - 2 hrs, CBS

Shakedown on Sunset Strip - 2 hrs, CBS