Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors
Jerry Roberts
Language: English
Pages: 862
ISBN: 0810861380
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings attention to the directors of these productions, citing every director of stand alone long-form television programs: made for TV movies, movie-length pilots, mini-series, and feature-length anthology programs, as well as drama, comedy, and musical specials of more than 60 minutes.
Each of the nearly 2,000 entries provides a brief career sketch of the director, his or her notable works, awards, and a filmography. Many entries also provide brief discussions of key shows, movies, and other productions. Appendixes include Emmy Awards, DGA Awards, and other accolades, as well as a list of anthology programs. A much-needed reference that celebrates these often-neglected artists, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of the medium.
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Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story (1996), Absolution (2006) Dale has directed episodes of Twice in a Lifetime, Relic Hunter, Just Cause, Angela’s Eyes, Durham County, Cold Case, and other series. Dangerous Offender, about the hardscrabble road traveled by an antisocial young woman, won Gemini Awards for its two stars, Brooke Johnson and Jayne Eastwood. Absolution, written by Bethany Rooney, starred Samantha Mathis as a news reporter sent to her Ohio hometown to cover events that the
seizing Port Said. The decisions as the United States and United Nations intervened is dramatized in Darlow’s film among John Foster Dulles (Alexander Knox), David BenGurion (Edward Burnham), Winston Churchill (Wens- D ley Pithey), Nikita Kruschev (Aubrey Morris), Anthony Eden (Michael Gough), and Dag Hammarskjold (Seymour Green). Both of Darlow’s Play for Today installments featured Kenneth Colley. On Play of the Month, Strife was the adaptation of John Galsworthy’s play with Angela Down
to Remember was one of TV’s better yuletide offerings, seen through the eyes of a city boy who comes to the family farm to help his cranky grandfather, played by Jason Robards, deliver the town a special present. Dixie was an agreeable vehicle for both the blowzier and sexier facets of Suzanne Pleshette, playing a bordello madam whose court sentence is to spend time inside a convent of nuns, led by mother superior Cloris Leachman (Englund’s actual wife). The Vegas Strip War showcased Rock Hudson
aka Miracle of the Heart) Arthur has been one of the hardest working TV movie directors for more than two decades. She won an Emmy Award in 1985 for directing an episode of Cagney & Lacey, called “Heat.” Her reputation sprung from The Mafu Cage, the cult film based on an Eric Wesphal play. Arthur’s film starred Lee Grant and Carol Kane as eccentric sisters living with an ape in a dilapidated mansion. In Arthur’s first TV movie, Delta Burke played a post–Civil War belle trying to hang onto the
also nominated for DGA honors for ER in 1997, The West Wing in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and House M.D. in 2004. Consisting of a trio of mini-films about the black experience in mid-twentieth-century America, America’s Dream won two CableACE’s for Danny Glover, as producer of the best special and as best actor, and for writers Ron Stacker Thompson and Ashley Tyler. Barclay’s segment was Reunion, written by Maya Angelou, about a girl who became a jazz pianist after a childhood of being forbidden to