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48th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 48th Directors Guild of America Awards, awarded on March 2, 1996, honored the best film and television directors of 1995.

Alec Smight

Alec Dow Smight is an American film editor and television director born in New York City, whose current occupation is as a director and producer on the successful series CSI.

Amanda Bearse

Amanda Bearse (born August 9, 1958) is an American actress, director and comedienne best known for her role as neighbor Marcy D'Arcy (formerly Marcy Rhoades) on Married... with Children, a sitcom that ran in the United States between 1987 and 1997, and for her performance in the 1985 horror film Fright Night opposite William Ragsdale.

Anandhapurathu Veedu

Anandhapurathu Veedu is a 2010 Indian Tamil supernatural mystery film directed by Tamil television director Naga, who has directed serials like Marmadesam, Vidathu Karuppu and Chidambara Rahasiyam.

Breehn Burns

Breehn Burns is an American screenwriter, director, voice artist, producer and illustrator.

Christian Quadflieg

Christian Urs Quadflieg (born April 11, 1945 in Växjö, Sweden) is a German television actor and director.

Cliff Owen

Cliff Owen, (1919–1993) was a British film and TV director best known for his comedy The Wrong Arm of the Law which starred Peter Sellers; he also directed two of the three films celebrated double act Morecambe and Wise made in the mid-1960s, and the big screen version of the classic BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son.

Dragons et princesses

Dragons et princesses (Dragons and Princesses) is a 2010 French computer animation television program written, storyboarded and directed by Michel Ocelot and produced at Studio O for Canal+.

Jon Cassar

Jon Cassar (born in Malta on April 27, 1958), is a Maltese-Canadian director and producer of seasons 1 to 7 of the television series 24, as well as a number of other film-related works.

Judy Strangis

Strangis is the niece of famous band leader and comedian, Spike Jones and the sister of notable producer and director Sam Strangis (Batman, The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple, The Six Million Dollar Man).

Kevin S. Bright

Kevin S. Bright (born November 15, 1954) is an American television executive producer and director whose credits include Dream On, Friends, and Joey.

Leo Penn

Leo Z. Penn (August 27, 1921 – September 5, 1998) was an American actor and director and the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.

Michael Toshiyuki Uno

Michael Toshiyuki Uno is an American film and television director, credited with directing television programs such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (the remake series that began in 1985), China Beach, The Outsiders, Early Edition, and Dawson's Creek.

Mike Vejar

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on the four most recent Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah.

Noel MacNeal

Noel MacNeal (born September 15, 1961 in Harlem, New York City) is a puppeteer, writer, and director of children's television, best known as the voice and puppeteer of Bear in Bear in the Big Blue House and Breakfast with Bear.

Peter Tewksbury

Peter Tewksbury (March 21, 1923 – February 20, 2003) was an American film and television director who directed Sunday in New York with Jane Fonda in 1963, the "Father Knows Best" TV series (131 episodes, 1954-1960), and a pair of Elvis Presley movies.

Robert Knights

Robert Knights (born in 1941, London, England) is a British film and television director, perhaps best known for his film The Dawning, about the Irish War of Independence, and his work with the British television series The Bill, and the miniseries The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, based on the hit Jilly Cooper novel.

Roxann Dawson

Roxann Dawson (née Caballero) is an American actress, producer, and director, best known as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager.

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle

Produced and directed by Sharron Miller and written by Arthur Heinemann, it tells the extraordinary true story of Leslie Lemke, a blind, mentally retarded boy with cerebral palsy who was raised from infancy by a foster mother who stubbornly refused to let him die.

Tony McHale

Tony McHale (born Antony wright) is a British actor, writer and director who is best known as a "stooge" to Jeremy Beadle on Game For A Laugh and later, Beadle's About.


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Alain Simard

Alain Simard (director), Québécois television director, musician, singer, and songwriter who remade the theme song for La Job

Berlinger

Robert Berlinger (born 1958), American film and television director

Billy Dickson

As a television director, he directed episodes of Ally McBeal, One Tree Hill and the reality series Majors & Minors.

Billy Gierhart

His other credits as a television director include, Lone Star, Terriers, The Chicago Code, Sons of Anarchy, Torchwood, Breakout Kings,The Walking Dead and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Cory Allen

Corey Allen (born 1934), American film and television director, producer, writer and actor

Craig Wallace

Craig David Wallace, Canadian television director, writer and producer

David Burke

David J. Burke (born 1948), producer, screenwriter and film and television director

David Grifhorst

David Grifhorst (born in Deventer on 22 June 1978) is a Dutch game show creator and television director who created the British game show The Exit List on ITV1.

David Von Ancken

Some of Von Ancken's credits as a television director include Oz, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, The Shield, Heroes, Gossip Girl, CSI: NY, Cold Case, Californication, Hell on Wheels and The Vampire Diaries.

Don King

Don Roy King, American television director for Saturday Night Live

Egilsson

Eagle Egilsson, (born 1966), Icelandic television director and cinematographer

Elodie Keene

Elodie Keene (born April 10, 1949 in Paso Robles, California) is an American film/television director, producer and editor.

Flaum

Marshall Flaum (1925–2010), American television director, producer and screenwriter

Flemyng

Gordon Flemyng (1934–1995), Scottish film and television director

Henry Kaplan

Henry Kaplan (September 13, 1926 – September 14, 2005) was a television director known for his works on Dark Shadows, Ryan's Hope, The Doctors and All My Children.

Howard Davies

John Howard Davies (1939-2011), English child actor who later became a television director and producer

Imison

Michael Imison (born 1935), British television director and literary agent

Jelena Genčić

Parallel to sports, she graduated art history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and worked for decades as a television director at the state-owned television network TV Belgrade that eventually transformed into Radio Television of Serbia.

Jeremy Kagan

He has also been a prolific television director, starting already in 1972 at the age of 26, directing The Most Crucial Game (starring Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Valerie Harper, Val Avery, Susan Howard, Dean Stockwell among others), a dynamic and intriguing episode in the second Columbo season.

John Estmond Strickland

:For the television director, see John Strickland.

Joshua Butler

As a television director, he directed episodes of The Invisible Man, G vs E and The Vampire Diaries.

Kenneth Cameron

Ken Cameron (born 1946), Australian film and television director

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Kimberly Williams-Paisley (born September 14, 1971) is an American actress, film director, film producer and television director who is perhaps best known for her co-starring role on According to Jim, as well as her breakthrough performance in Father of the Bride, for which she was nominated for several awards (along with its sequel Father of the Bride Part II).

Labaki

Carmen Labaki (born 1971), Lebanese-Brazilian film and television director and producer

Laven

Arnold Laven (1922-2009), American film and television director and producer

Luis F Soto

Luis F Soto, born in Hatillo, Puerto Rico, is a Film and Television director working and living in Los Angeles, California.

Malcolm Bilson

His family was and is successful in the entertainment world: his father, George Bilson, was an English-born producer/writer/director, and his older brother Bruce Bilson had a long and productive career as a film and television director; other relations (descendents of Bruce) are Danny Bilson and Rachel Bilson.

Matthew Penn

Penn has directed and/or produced over one hundred and fifty prime time TV dramas Some of his credits as a television director include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Brooklyn South, The Sopranos, House, Damages, The Closer, and Royal Pains.

McEveety

Vincent McEveety (born 1929), American film and television director.

Meindert Leerling

Previously he worked as a television director and RTV journalist for the Evangelical Broadcasting (Evangelische Omroep) and as a sports journalist for several newspapers.

Mike Elliott

Michael Elliott (1931–1984), English theatre and television director

Mirkin

David Mirkin, an American feature film and television director, writer and producer

Moodley

Preshanthan Moodley (born 1988), South African film and television director

Nate Barragar

His credits as a motion picture and television director, production manager, and producer include Gunga Din, Hondo, and Sands of Iwo Jima, and on such television series as The Gene Autry Show, The Roy Rogers Show, Adventures of Superman, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke, and Julia.

Robert F. Hughes

Robert F. Hughes is an American television director who worked on shows including The Angry Beavers and Rocko's Modern Life.

Roger Tompkins

Roger Tompkins (28 February 1952, Paddington, England) is a British television director of series such as The Ray Bradbury Theater.

Saddleworth railway station

In 1978, television director Ken Stephinson moved into the property with his wife Marjorie, and remained there until his death in 2012.

Sanford Bookstaver

As a television director, some of Bookstaver's episodic credits include Prison Break, The O.C., Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, House, Harper's Island, Jericho, White Collar, Fastlane and Bones.

Thomas J. Thompson

As a television director, he has directed episodes of Dave's World, The Norm Show, The Drew Carey Show and Good Luck Charlie.

Wahid Khan

:For the television director, see Waheed Khan.