Jeff Bleckner
Jeff Bleckner (born August 12, 1943) is an American theatre, television, and film director.
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Jeff Bleckner
- Name
- Jeff Bleckner
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Theatre director
- Born
- 1943 · Brooklyn.
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- theatre · television
- Honours
- Directors Guild of America Award · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie and or Dramatic Special · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
- Languages
- English
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Jeff Bleckner (born August 12, 1943) is an American theatre, television, and film director.
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The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is theatre and television. Distinctions recorded are Directors Guild of America Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
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• Name — Jeff Bleckner • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York, U.S. • Occupation — * Theatre director • television director • film director
Biography
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bleckner made his directorial debut off-Broadway with The Unseen Hand/Forensic and the Navigators, an evening of one-act plays by Sam Shepard, in 1970. He also directed three off-Broadway productions of works by David Rabe: the first two plays in his Vietnam War trilogy, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones (both of which transferred to Broadway), and The Orphan. Additional Broadway credits include Paul Zindel's The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild and Herb Gardner's The Goodbye People. Bleckner's television directing credits include Welcome Back, Kotter, Bret Maverick, The Stockard Channing Show, Knots Landing, Dynasty, Trapper John, M.D., Lou Grant, Remington Steele, Hill Street Blues, Commander in Chief, Medium, Hawthorne Blackout Effect, NTSB The crash of flight 323 and Boston Legal, in addition to numerous television movies. His most recent project is the pilot for Conspiracy, a potential series for the 2007–08 season, starring Lisa Sheridan as a Washington, D.C. attorney attempting to undercover the secrets of a pharmaceutical company she successfully defended. He is also the director of Remember Sunday (2013), an American romantic drama film.
Life and career
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1943
Jeff Bleckner born at Brooklyn.
Films
• Year — Title — Director — Producer • 1974 — A Sunday Dinner (Short Film) • 1977 — An Apple, An Orange • 1980 — Willow B: Women in Prison • 1983 — When Your Lover Leaves • 1984 — Things Are Looking Up • 1985 — Do You Remember Love • 1985 — Brotherly Love • 1987 — White Water Summer • 1988 — Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami • 1988 — My Father, My Son • 1992 — Last Wish • 1992 — In Sickness and in Health • 1993 — New Year • 1994 — A Father for Charlie • 1995 — Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story • 1996 — On Seventh Avenue • 1997 — The Advocate's Devil • 1998 — Blackout Effect • 1998 — Rear Window • 2000 — Runaway Virus • 2000 — Flowers for Algernon • 2001 — Black River • 2003 — The Music Man • 2004 — NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 • 2004 — Gramercy Park • 2005 — Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II • 2008 — The Russell Girl • 2009 — Loving Leah • 2011 — Beyond the Blackboard • 2013 — Remember Sunday • 2015 — Away and Back
Awards and nominations
• Awards • 1971 Drama Desk Award Most Promising Director (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel) • 1972 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director (Sticks and Bones) • 1982 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Hill Street Blues) • 1984 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (Concealed Enemies) • 1984 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series (Hill Street Blues) • 2001 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television (The Beach Boys: An American Family) • Nominations • 1972 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (Sticks and Bones) • 1982 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Hill Street Blues) • 1985 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (Do You Remember Love) • 1986 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials (Do You Remember Love) • 1995 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story) • 2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries (The Beach Boys: An American Family) • 2001 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television (The Beach Boys: An American Family) • 2004 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television (The Music Man) • 2012 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television/Mini-Series (Beyond the Blackboard, 2011)
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Jeff Bleckner received Directors Guild of America Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. Recorded as screenwriter, director, television writer and television producer.
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