In 2021, he directed two filmed productions that were designed for streaming, an original musical Tonight's the Night, starring Eric Petersen and Hartley Powers, and a thriller titled Revenge. The third season of Outside the Box, intended to start filming in April 2013, never came to fruition. He wrote and directed the web series Outside the Box, which, was initially uploaded on YouTube, and later became a Broadway World exclusive series for its second season. He directed an award-winning KABC documentary called Weekday Heroes, and for home video he directed the Hanna-Barbera show, Rappin' and Rhymin'. He also wrote and directed multiple segments of the HBO comedy series, Likely Stories. He was also the director (as Mark Rutland) of Prime Suspect (1989). The DVD also included Spaceship cut (in 1:85:1), three commentary tracks, trailer, and a 24-bit version of the soundtrack. In 2019, a special edition DVD was released, finally allowing audiences to see Kimmel's original cut of the film in its proper ratio of 1:85:1.

The film was retitled once again as Naked Space for some DVD releases with an incorrect aspect ratio. His second film, The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983) was completely recut by its producers, with no involvement from Kimmel, retitled Spaceship, played a short theatrical run, then went to cable TV. The First Nudie Musical became one of the first cable-TV hits and featured in the second volume of Danny Peary's Cult Movies.

Kimmel wrote and directed The First Nudie Musical (1976). He acted in the films The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), The First Nudie Musical (1976), Racquet, with Bert Convy, Tanya Roberts, Lynda Day George, Björn Borg, and Phil Silvers, First Family (1980) and The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983). His other TV appearances include The Young Lawyers Honeymoon Suite the TV-movie Beggarman, Thief The Bob Crane Show Forget-Me-Not-Lane on PBS Carl Reiner's Good Heavens Rob Reiner's The Super Lucas Tanner Doctors' Hospital Marcus Welby, MD the TV-remake of the film If I Had a Million Dinah and Her New Best Friends, which was a CBS summer replacement for The Carol Burnett Show and aired for eight weeks in the summer of 1976 Kimmel appeared in many TV shows, such as The Partridge Family (multiple episodes), Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Alice, M*A*S*H, Donny & Marie (four guest shots), and various pilots. Bruce Kimmel (born December 8, 1947), also known as Guy Haines, is an actor, writer, director, composer, and Grammy-nominated CD producer.

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