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Later on in an ongoing TV series run, one of the cast members may get the idea in their head to take a turn at the helm. They'll have been around a set and crew for some time now and having shifted from the floating jobbing actor life to a more stable schedule, a desire to try something new may be piquing up. Now considering that by this stage they will have a decent relationship with the production staff, who probably don't want to say no and who also don't want the stars to getting ideas of wandering off into their head, the idea of directing an episode will come up. Not much will change stylistically in this episode since a good budding director will try to emulate the ongoing style to fit it while a bad one would hopefully be steered heavily by the established staff. However, the episode may be noted for completely leaving out the actor's character or reducing them to a walk-on role, so that they can focus on the directing. On the other hand, maybe they go for the opposite, having an episode that does focus heavily on them, so that they don't so much have to deal with directing other people's acting. Of course, you might not want to trust the coffee passed to you by the guy who went to film school, worked as a runner for five years and spent every day sucking up to the director to no avail... Writer-actor, director-actor and other hyphenated jobs titles are normally used to refer to someone who develops more than one role simultaneously. That is not this trope. This trope is about those whose careers evolve (or attempt to evolve) into another role, using their current employment as a springboard. Think Dual classing vs Multi-classing with Directed by Cast Member being Dual Classing. See also Descended Creator and Written by Cast Member. |
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Melissa & Joey starred Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence, who both have directing experience from prior shows. Unsurprisngly, they carried on with this show (six and five respectively). | |
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Chad Lowe has directed 15 episodes of Pretty Little Liars (appropriately enough given he plays Aria's dad, the second episode he helmed was called "Father Knows Best"). Troian Bellisario also got to direct "In the Eye Abides the Heart". | |
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Bassie & Adriaan: Besides playing Adriaan, Aad van Toor co-directed "Het Geheim van de Sleutel" and "De Diamand", and as of "Het Geheim van de Schatkaart" completely took over the director duties. | |
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Miami Vice: Both Don Johnson and Edward James Olmos have directed episodes. | |
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The Bob Newhart Show - Peter Bonerz started directing episodes in Season 2, beginning a successful career behind the camera on this and many other series. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Alfonso Ribeiro directed an episode in the sixth and final season. | |
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Archie Bunker's Place star Carroll O'Connor directed episodes of the show, and later for In the Heat of the Night. | |
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Good Luck Charlie had two episodes directed by Eric Allan Kramer ("Wentz's Weather Girls" and "Rat-A-Teddy") and Leigh-Allyn Baker ("Charlie Whisperer" and "Bob's Beau-Be-Gone"). | |
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Malcolm Jamal-Warner directed several episodes of The Cosby Show. | |
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David Doyle directed one episode of Charlie's Angels. | |
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Future World (2018): James Franco co-directed the film and played the Warlord. | |
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Alias has a single episode directed by star Jennifer Garner in season four. (Unlike her ex-husband, this is her sole effort in the field to date.) | |
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The Angel episode "Soul Purpose", where Angel spends all his time bedridden in hallucinations, was directed by Angel actor David Boreanaz. He later directed a fourth-season episode and the 100th episode of Bones. | |
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Arrow had David Ramsey (Diggle) directing the episodes "Past Sins" and "Reset", and Katie Cassidy (Laurel) directing the episode "Leap of Faith". | |
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CHiPs has episodes directed by Robert Pine and Larry Wilcox. Regular guest star Patrick McGoohan directed a number of episodes, including three of the four episodes where he played the murderer. |
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In Chuck, Zachary Levi directed a major third-season episode, "Chuck vs. the Beard". | |
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Coach - Craig T. Nelson directed 25 episodes (this extends to his other series, as he also did an episode of Call To Glory and two installments of The District). | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise was the first show in the franchise to never have any instalment directed by one of its own actors. Apparently United Paramount Network (already struggling in ratings across its entire lineup) was too risk-averse to allow actors without prior directing experience to learn on the job. As mentioned above, lead actor Scott Bakula declined the opportunity despite his pre-existing experience. Meanwhile, Burton, Dawson and McNeill all spent time in the director's chair. | |
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19 episodes of Girls were directed by Lena Dunham herself. (The show only had 62 episodes.) | |
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In Haven, Jason Priestley (Chris Brody) directed "Lockdown" and "Real Estate", Lucas Bryant (Nathan Wuornos) directed "Enter Sandman", and Colin Ferguson (William) directed "Just Passing Through". | |
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Kojak: Several episodes directed by Telly Savalas. | |
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Both have done this many times. Sheh voiced Paho in Patema Inverted and Natsuki in Welcome to The Space Show, among others, while voice directing, and Sinterniklaas also voiced leads in Bakuman。 (as Moritaka), Slayers Revolution (as Xellos), and Time of Eve (as Masaki), all of which he directed. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Clark Gregg directed an episode in Season 5, and another one in Season 6. Bonus points for the actor who portrayed the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. becoming a literal Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
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Eureka has had episodes helmed by Colin Ferguson (Carter), Joe Morton (Henry), and Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Allison). | |
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Happens in-universe in Extras when the network hires an incompetent director for the Show Within a Show. | |
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Dragnet: All episodes of the 1950s and 1960s versions were directed by Jack Webb. | |
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Better Things: Pamela Adlon starred as main character Sam, while she also co-created, produced and wrote much of the series. | |
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Feel Good: Mae Martin is the main character, who co-created and co-wrote the series as well. | |
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Adrian Lester directed an episode of the final series of Hustle (which resulted in Mickey spending much of the episode locked in a car boot). | |
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Here's a strange one: near the end of Moonlighting, Dennis Dugan was brought in for four episodes to play the infamous "Romantic False Lead Maddie met on a train and immediately married for no apparent reason except to provide a Love Triangle". This failed utterly and his character was written out and never seen again. However, Dugan himself stuck around to direct five unrelated episodes, including the series finale... and today is probably better known as a director than as an actor. This trope itself was parodied in the Moonlighting episode "Atomic Shakespeare". In one scene, 'Petruchio' (David Addison) pulls out a list of demands for Kate (Maddy Hayes). He reads out 'Top billing, 10% pay rise and a chance to direct' and then says 'oops, wrong list of demands'. (Ironically, Bruce Willis has never directed for real. If you're wondering, neither has Cybill Shepherd.) |
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Shows during the Secret Hideout era have likewise kept actors out of the director's chair, the sole exception being Frakes, who in addition to being the pre-eminent Star Trek director has had his character appear in two of the era's five shows. (Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard is the first time he's spent more time in front of a camera than behind it in over 30 years.) Picard Season 2 also had Lea Thompson appear in a bit role in the 5th episode after directing the 3rd and 4th. | |
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Jessie: Kevin Chamberlin has directed two episodes; Debby Ryan, in addition to being a co-producer from season two, directed a season three episode (becoming the youngest woman to direct for the Disney Channel in the process). | |
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Chris Sabat also had roles in other shows he's voice directed, such as D.Gray-Man (voicing Cross Marian), Glass Fleet (voicing Heizak), SoltyRei (voicing Roy), Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (voicing Jigen), and some of YuYu Hakusho (voicing Kuwabara). | |
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Grey's Anatomy, one of the Long-Runners, has developed a stable of internal directors: Chandra Wilson, Kevin McKidd, Jesse Williams, Ellen Pompeo and Giacomo Gianniotti have all stepped behind the camera. Debbie Allen, who plays a recurring character, has also joined the show's staff as an executive producer and director, and now spends more time behind the camera than in front of it; she often directs four episodes per season, Kidd four, and Wilson two, of a season that typically lasts 20 or 22 episodes. And Sarah Drew directed the entire Grey's Anatomy: B-Team Web Video series, though she did not appear in it. | |
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Roswell, New Mexico: Michael Trevino, who played Kyle Valenti, also directed the fourth season episode "Wild Wild West". | |
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Mad Men: Star Jon Hamm directed two episodes over the course of the series. And Starring headliner John Slattery directed five episodes over the course of the show. His position allowed for some pretty cool visual irony: the opening scene of Slattery's first episode, "The Rejected," involves Roger Sterling and Don Draper discussing new regulations on cigarette advertisements over the phone with Lucky Strike; one of these requirements, as Roger reads out, is avoiding using wide angles, low shots and other forms of Hitler Cam to make a smoker seem superhuman. At the same time, Don Draper is smoking, and Slattery makes sure to use... wide angles, low shots, and other forms of Hitler Cam to make Don seem... well... you know the rest. Jared Harris directed the 7th-season episode Time & Life even though his character had been written out, making this Directed By Former Cast Member. |
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A Mr. Show sketch in the finale was directed by David Cross, which probably explains why it stars Bob Odenkirk and Jay Johnston as the leads, as a two-man sketch would normally be played by Bob and David (Jay usually played supporting roles). | |
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Unsurprisingly, several episodes of Hawaii Five-O were directed by Jack Lord. Additionally, Lord's stand-in, Beau Van Den Ecker, directed a few episodes, as well as appearing in bit parts and serving as the show's Associate Producer. | |
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Rocky: Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa) directed himself in the second through fourth Rocky films, plus Rocky Balboa. Stallone also directed the fourth Rambo film, where he plays the title character. Michael B. Jordan (Adonis Creed) directed himself in Creed III. |
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The Arrested Development episode "Afternoon Delight" was directed by Jason Bateman. The episode is "standard fare" (as in, a show with a large ensemble where the majority of the characters gets a subplot each). | |
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Scrubs has seven episodes directed by Zach Braff (who, at the point he started directing episodes, had already written and directed one movie), including "My No Good Reason", "My Princess" and "My Way Home" ("My Way Home" even being one of the most well-received episodes of the later years of the show's run). Bill Lawrence has said Braff is probably the best director in the crew for large-scale shoots, which is why the more unusual episodes often go to him. "My Unicorn" was directed by Matthew Perry who also guest-starred in the episode. |
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Girl Meets World: Ben Savage (Cory Matthews), Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter), and Danielle Fishel each directed a handful of episodes over the course of the series. | |
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The F.B.I. had nine episodes between 1970 and 1974 directed by Philip Abbott. | |
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In The Originals, Joseph Morgan who plays Klaus directed three episodes. | |
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On GLOW (2017), Alison Brie directed the third season episode "Hollywood Homecoming". | |
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Supernatural: Jensen Ackles (Dean) directed the episodes "Weekend at Bobby's", "The Girl Next Door", "Heartache", "Soul Survivor", "The Bad Seed", and "Atomic Monsters". Misha Collins (Castiel) directed the episode "Mother's Little Helper". Richard Speight Jr.. (Gabriel) directed the episodes "Just My Imagination", "Stuck in the Middle (With You)", "Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes", "War of the Worlds", "Unfinished Business", "Gods and Monsters", "Optimism", "Proverbs 17:3", "Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven", "Galaxy Brain", and "Despair". Amanda Tapping (Naomi) directed the episodes "The Future", "Various & Sundry Villains", "A Most Holy Man", and "Nihilism". Matt Cohen (young John) directed the episode "Gimme Shelter". |
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Homicide: Life on the Street had multiple episodes directed by Clark Johnson who later directed episodes of The Shield and The Wire as well as feature films. Kyle Secor also directed one episode. Steve Buscemi, who appeared in a guest role in Season 3, got to direct at least one later episode, in which he did not appear. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The original dub from ADV Films was voice directed by Matt Greenfield, who also voiced Makoto Hyoga. Amanda Winn-Lee took over directing for the Manga Entertainment dubs of Death & Rebirth and End of Evangelion while voicing Rei. Mike McFarland voice directed the original Funimation dubs of the first three Rebuild movies while also taking over as Makoto Hyoga. The 2019 Netflix redub for the TV series and original movies was voice directed by Carrie Keranen, who also voiced Misato. The dub of 3.0+1, plus the 2021 redubs of the first three Rebuild movies on Amazon Prime, has director Joe Fria as Makoto Hyoga, the third English voice director to voice that character. |
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He also directed three episodes of Danger Man. | |
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Stallone also directed the fourth Rambo film, where he plays the title character. | |
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Over 30 episodes of Married... with Children were directed by Amanda Bearse (Marcy), who directed numerous other shows as well. | |
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A number of past and present Sesame Street puppeteers have also directed episodes, including Jim Martin (who mostly puppeteered minor characters like Preston Rabbit), Kevin Clash (former puppeteer of Elmo), Joey Mazzarino (Murray Monster and Stinky the Stinkweed; he also wrote episodes, skits, and songs until his departure and eventually became head writer), and Matt Vogel (the current performer of Big Bird and Count von Count). In the early seasons, Jim Henson also directed some Muppet segments. | |
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Each of the four main cast members of Elementary has directed at least one episode. Aidan Quinn and Jon Michael Hill have one each, Jonny Lee Miller has done three while Lucy Liu has directed seven. | |
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With some exceptions (such as A Scene at the Sea), Takeshi Kitano usually acts in movies he directs. It includes Violent Cop, Boiling Point 1990, Sonatine, Getting Any ?, Fireworks, Kikujiro, Brother, Zatoichi and Outrage. | |
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He later directed several episodes in The Fosters, where he played recurring character Will. He directed the season two episode "Now Hear This", the season three episode "Minor Offenses", four season four episodes: "Potential Energy", "Safe", "Insult To Injury", and "Dream a Little Dream", and the season five episode "Sanctuary". | |
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Several actors of Brooklyn Nine-Nine made their directing debut in the sixth season including Stephanie Beatriz for "He Said, She Said", Joe Lo Truglio for "The Bimbo" and Melissa Fumero for "Return of the King". | |
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Dick Christie directed a few episodes of Small Wonder. | |
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St. Elsewhere: Eric Laneuville (Luther Hawkins) directed 19 episodes from Season Two onwards. William Daniels (Mark Craig) directed the Season Three episode "The Children's Hour". This is his only credit as a director. David Morse (Jack Morrison) directed the Season Six episodes "Handoff" and "A Coupla White Dummies Sitting Around Talking". |
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Paul Schrier (Bulk) directed several episodes of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers with Jason Narvy's (Skull) assistance, much to many people's surprise given the morons they played. Reportedly, they were offered this opportunity to make up for many of their scenes in The Movie being cut. | |
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Supergirl had Chad Lowe (Coville) directing the episodes "Wake Up" and "Rather the Fallen Angel", David Harewood (J'onn) directing the episodes "American Dreamer", "Back From the Future – Part One", and "Immortal Kombat", and Melissa Benoist (Kara) directing the episode "Deus Lex Machina". Lowe also directed The Flash episode "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 1". | |
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The original Broadway cast of The Cat and the Fiddle was directed by José Ruben, who played the producer of the Show Within the Show. | |
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Dalziel and Pascoe. Both Warren Clarke (Dalziel) and Colin Buchanan (Pascoe) directed episodes. | |
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Columbo had one episode directed by Peter Falk. According to Mark Dawidziak's book, The Columbo File, creators/producers Richard Levinson and William Link gave Falk an episode of the series to direct "to shut him up". Furthermore, the script they gave him to direct, "Blueprint For Murder", was the one they considered the most difficult to direct. They were stunned when he brought the project in well under budget and also surprised that he did a fantastic job directing it. Unfortunately, Falk never went behind the camera again, though he did write one of the post-1989 episodes. | |
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Kenan & Kel The episode "Three Girls, a Guy, and a Cineplex" was directed by Kenan Thompson. Kel Mitchell got his turn in the director's chair by directing the episode "The Crush". |
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Hugh Beaumont directed a number of Leave It to Beaver episodes. | |
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The Dick Van Dyke Show - Jerry Paris went on to a long directorial career on this and many other shows. | |
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In Jessica Jones (2015) season 3, Krysten Ritter (Jessica) directed the season 3 episode "AKA You're Welcome". | |
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While working on Ghost Whisperer, Jennifer Love Hewitt helmed three episodes. She later did the same for The Client List. | |
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David DeLuise, who plays the father on Wizards of Waverly Place, directed a number of episodes, one or two of which were written by TV son David Henrie. | |
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For Pet Alien, Jess Harnell — the voice of Gumpers, Swanky, and Granville — was also the voice director. | |
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Class (2021): Enzo Cellucci and Ash McNair who played Max and Sam, also co-directed the short film. | |
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The Incredible Hulk (1977): several episodes directed by Bill Bixby, plus two directed by Jack Colvin ("Goodbye Eddie Cain" and "East Winds"). | |
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Cut to the Chase: Blayne Weaver, who played the protagonist, also directed. | |
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Walker, Texas Ranger: Clarence Gilyard directed "Full Recovery". | |
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home were directed by Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was directed by William Shatner, who played Kirk. Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection were directed by Jonathan Frakes, who played Riker. | |
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The X-Files: David Duchovny directed a few of the later episodes, namely "The Unnatural", "Hollywood A.D.", and "William". He also wrote "The Unnatural" and "Hollywood A.D.", and co-wrote "William". He had a few co-writer credits for other mostly Myth Arc episodes. And Gillian Anderson wrote and directed "all things" (the lack of capitalization is stylized), which further explored her character. |
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The Streets of San Francisco: One episode directed by Michael Douglas ("Spooks for Sale"). | |
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The Series finale of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was directed by Bradley Whitford. Whitford's co-star on Studio 60, Timothy Busfield, directed six episodes of the show. |
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Stargate SG-1: Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill) was one of the series' executive producers from day one. The crew joked in one of the DVD featurettes that this was partly to make sure he showed up on time for shoots. Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) directed several and wrote a few (interestingly, one of Shanks' early episodes involved robot clones and he was able to get out of half of the screen time by just killing the clone). Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) directed an episode (season 7's "Resurrection", which, incidentally, was written by Michael Shanks). |
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In The Vampire Diaries, Paul Wesley (Stefan) directed five episodes and Ian Somerhalder (Damon) three. | |
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While normally the episodes directed by a cast member either don't feature their character or only feature them briefly, the much-praised Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond the Stars" sticks out because it was directed by and totally focused on Avery Brooks. The episode was about racism in the 1950s, and the writers thought that the episode would suffer if it wasn't directed by someone who has to live with it today. | |
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A few episodes of Fuller House were directed by Dave Coulier, who plays Joey Gladstone. | |
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The Flash had Tom Cavanagh (Wells) directing the episodes "The Once and Future Flash", "Elongated Journey Into Night", and "What's Past Is Prologue", and Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin) directing the episodes "Godspeed" and "License to Elongate". | |
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Drake & Josh: The episode "Battle of Panthatar" was directed by Josh Peck. Drake Bell got his turn by directing the first part of the "Really Big Shrimp" special. |
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This Is Us: With thirtysomething alumnus Ken Olin as one of the show's producers, this trope very present here: Milo Ventimiglia did 3 episodes, Mandy Moore directed "The Hill", Jon Huertas and Justin Hartley did 2 episodes, and Chris Sullivan did "Heart and Soul." | |
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A fairly large number of Star Trek actors have directed at least one episode, and Jonathan Frakes, Robert Duncan McNeill and Roxann Dawson have in fact become more famous within the industry as directors than actors. Note that many of the cast member-directors are now or were professors of directing and acting for the stage: Frakes (Rockport College), Avery Brooks (Rutgers University), Andrew Robinson (USC), René Auberjonois (Juilliard). Averted during the run of the Original Series. None of the original cast ever directed a TV episode of any Star Trek series. That said, Leonard Nimoy has directed two of the films, and William Shatner a third. On TNG, besides breakout director Frakes, Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton and Gates McFadden have all spent time on the other side of the camera. Frakes also directed two of the franchise's movies. Though he's not as famous for it, Burton has actually directed more episodes of Star Trek than any other alum, with 29 episodes to his credit. (That said, Frakes will tie him before the end of 2023; he also has those two movies.) On DS9, Brooks, Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Michael Dorn and even Fake Guest Star Andrew Robinson directed episodes, with help from Frakes and Burton. Pointedly averted by Nana Visitor: aware of the predilection of her castmates to direct episodes, she always claimed, "[Then-child actor] Cirroc Lofton will direct an episode before I do." As Lofton aged and this actually became a reasonable possibility, she switched to "my [then-infant] son". While normally the episodes directed by a cast member either don't feature their character or only feature them briefly, the much-praised Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond the Stars" sticks out because it was directed by and totally focused on Avery Brooks. The episode was about racism in the 1950s, and the writers thought that the episode would suffer if it wasn't directed by someone who has to live with it today. On Voyager, Frakes and Burton were amongst the stable of directors, with Robinson ducking in occasionally. The first "shipboard" director was McNeill, with Robert Picardo, Tim Russ and Dawson getting involved as well. One of the complaints Garrett Wang had about his time on Voyager was that he never got to a direct an episode, despite asking several times. In fact, Wang holds the dubious distinction of being the only actor in the entire franchise who wanted to direct but was never allowed to. This puts his character Harry Kim's Butt-Monkey status in a rather unflattering light. Ethan Phillips also made it clear that he had no intention of ever calling the shots on an episode. Star Trek: Enterprise was the first show in the franchise to never have any instalment directed by one of its own actors. Apparently United Paramount Network (already struggling in ratings across its entire lineup) was too risk-averse to allow actors without prior directing experience to learn on the job. As mentioned above, lead actor Scott Bakula declined the opportunity despite his pre-existing experience. Meanwhile, Burton, Dawson and McNeill all spent time in the director's chair. Shows during the Secret Hideout era have likewise kept actors out of the director's chair, the sole exception being Frakes, who in addition to being the pre-eminent Star Trek director has had his character appear in two of the era's five shows. (Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard is the first time he's spent more time in front of a camera than behind it in over 30 years.) Picard Season 2 also had Lea Thompson appear in a bit role in the 5th episode after directing the 3rd and 4th. |
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The Office (US): Paul Lieberstein directed seven episodes, B.J. Novak did five, Steve Carell, John Krasinski and Rainn Wilson all called the shots on three, and Mindy Kaling and Ed Helms... well, helmed two each. (Lieberstein, Novak, Carell, and Kaling also wrote several episodes, and all but Carell directed one of their own scripts at least once.) | |
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Skinless bassist Joe Keyser directed the music video for "Skull Session", from their 2018 album Savagery. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) was co-directed by Mike McFarland and Colleen Clinkenbeard, who also played both Havoc and Hawkeye respectively (the former would also direct Brotherhood). Colleen Clinkenbeard also directed the dub for My Hero Academia, in addition to voicing Momo Yaoyorozu. Mike McFarland also directed Attack on Titan's dub where he plays a similarly named character as the above. |
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30 Rock star Tina Fey wrote and co-wrote several episodes, including the Pilot, but she never directed any. Steve Buscemi, who has a Recurring Character on the show, directed an episode in which his character did not appear. | |
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While Jim's son Brian Henson directed two Muppet films (The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), he didn't play any characters, in spite of debuting several recurring characters on Muppets Tonight. It was later played straight with The Happytime Murders, which Brian both directed and played several characters in. | |
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Shintaro Katsu was already producing as well as starring in the Zatoichi film series by the time he took up directing. He directed himself in Zatoichi in Desperation, the TV series Zatoichi monogatari and the 1989 revival movie. | |
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Trackdown. I Spy. The Greatest American Hero. What do these TV series have in common? They all starred Robert Culp, and he wrote and directed episodes for each of them. This was a factor in his not being cast as Koenig on Space: 1999; he told Gerry Anderson that he wanted to write and direct, and was handed his hat as a result. In fact, the only cast member of any live-action Anderson show to have directed an episode is Robert Vaughn, who went behind the camera for one of the few comedic episodes of The Protectors, "It Could Be Practically Anywhere On The Island" (an episode widely regarded, including by Vaughn himself, as a mistake). | |
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M*A*S*H: Alan Alda directed numerous episodes (he also wrote for the show - in fact, he directed most of the episodes he is credited for writing). Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell also directed several episodes each. David Ogden Stiers directed a couple. Even Jamie Farr had one episode behind the camera. |
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The Nova theoretical physics miniseries "The Fabric of the Cosmos" was hosted by Professor Brian Greene of Columbia University, who also wrote the book the miniseries was based on and was credited as executive editor. | |
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Boy Meets World: William Russ (Alan Matthews) directed several episodes in the later seasons before also directing an episodes of Girl Meets World. Girl Meets World: Ben Savage (Cory Matthews), Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter), and Danielle Fishel each directed a handful of episodes over the course of the series. |
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Bates Motel put several of its main cast in the director's chair. It started when star Vera Farmiga suggested that Nestor Carbonell ought to direct an episode; he made his debut in the director's chair in season three and went on to direct an episode in both seasons four and five as well. Freddie Highmore and Max Thieriot followed suit, both taking a turn behind the camera in season five. Ironically, the only main cast member who already had directing experience, Farmiga herselfnote who had directed the well-received 2011 indie drama film Higher Ground, turned down the opportunity when asked. | |
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Lots of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, though this likely has to do with the show being produced in Minnesota, away from major show business cities, and the fact Jim Mallon was the voice of Gypsy for a large portion of the run. Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Mike Nelson, and Joel Hodgson all directed numerous episodes as well. | |
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Averted during the run of the Original Series. None of the original cast ever directed a TV episode of any Star Trek series. That said, Leonard Nimoy has directed two of the films, and William Shatner a third. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle: Bryan Cranston directed the episodes "Stereo Store", "Vegas", "Dirty Magazine", "Experiment", "Buseys Run Away", "Billboard", and "Malcolm Defends Reese". Christopher Kennedy Masterson directed the episode "Hal Grieves". | |
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Dawson's Creek had an episode directed by cast member Joshua Jackson, and a second by cast member Kerr Smith, during the sixth season. This is notable since the show is a Teen Drama — though perhaps less so since it's also the Trope Namer for Dawson Casting. Jackson's character was 20 at the time he directed, but the man himself was 25. (That said, he got to direct Adam Carolla and Drew Pinsky.) | |
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The late Kevin Seymour was a veteran anime voice director in the 90s and early-mid 2000s, but he rarely cast himself in his shows. The biggest exception was Inspector Zenigata in Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. | |
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The Brady Bunch - Robert Reed directed four episodes. As he was recently at odds with the producers of the show over plotlines, this was done in an attempt to alleviate tension. | |
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Toy Story 2: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Carlos Segundo is the ADR director as well as Woody's voice actor. | |
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Laverne & Shirley: Penny Marshall directed four episodes of the series, serving as a springboard to her career as a feature film director. Cindy Williams and Michael McKean each directed an episode. | |
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The West Wing: Richard Schiff, the episodes "Talking Points" and "A Good Day". Tim Matheson who played vice President John Hoynes also directed the seventh season episode "The Last Hurrah". |
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Thomas Carter directed four episodes of The White Shadow. Eventually, Carter abandoned acting for a more lucrative producing and directing career. | |
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Don Adams did this in seasons four and five of Get Smart. | |
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Your Name's dub was co-voice directed by Stephanie Sheh and Michael Sinterniklaas, who voiced the two leads Mitsuha and Taki. Both have done this many times. Sheh voiced Paho in Patema Inverted and Natsuki in Welcome to The Space Show, among others, while voice directing, and Sinterniklaas also voiced leads in Bakuman。 (as Moritaka), Slayers Revolution (as Xellos), and Time of Eve (as Masaki), all of which he directed. |
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The producers of Scarecrow and Mrs. King allowed Kate Jackson to direct two episodes ("Unfinished Nusiness" and "The Pharoah's Engineer"), which she did not get to do on Charlie's Angels. | |
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Kotaro Lives Alone has Cherami Leigh directing the dub while also voicing the titular character. | |
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Starsky & Hutch: Both Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul have directed episodes (Glaser ultimately made directing a career, while Soul dabbled briefly in directing, helming episodes of Miami Vice, Hunter (1984) and Crime Story). | |
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Home Improvement: Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson each directed one episode in season eight. | |
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On Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, Rachel Ramras (the voice of Lola Bunny) was one of the voice directors, as well as co-writing the script and one of the songs. | |
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The Monkees: Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork directed episodes. Dolenz later had some success as a TV director in Britain. | |
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On SpongeBob SquarePants, Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob, Gary, the narrator, and more) took over as the voice director in Season 9. | |
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Arrowverse: Arrow had David Ramsey (Diggle) directing the episodes "Past Sins" and "Reset", and Katie Cassidy (Laurel) directing the episode "Leap of Faith". The Flash had Tom Cavanagh (Wells) directing the episodes "The Once and Future Flash", "Elongated Journey Into Night", and "What's Past Is Prologue", and Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin) directing the episodes "Godspeed" and "License to Elongate". Supergirl had Chad Lowe (Coville) directing the episodes "Wake Up" and "Rather the Fallen Angel", David Harewood (J'onn) directing the episodes "American Dreamer", "Back From the Future – Part One", and "Immortal Kombat", and Melissa Benoist (Kara) directing the episode "Deus Lex Machina". Lowe also directed The Flash episode "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 1". Legends of Tomorrow had Caity Lotz (Sara) directing the episode "Mortal Khanbat". |
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Singaporean director Jack Neo made the duology, I Not Stupid and I Not Stupid Too, and plays the main character's fathers in both of them. A third movie was scheduled after a 17-year Sequel Gap with Jack returning to direct, but Word of God has it that he won't be playing anyone's fathers this time because of his age. | |
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Blame (2017): Quinn Shephard wrote, co-produced, edited and directed the film along with her starring role. It's her directorial debut. | |
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The Rookies: Two episodes directed by Georg Stanford Brown ("Cliffy" and "Someone Who Cares") and one by Gerald S. O'Loughlin ("A Time to Mourn"). Brown obviously enjoyed directing so much that when the series ended, he pursued directing as a career, helming dozens of TV shows over the next decade. As for O'Loughlin, he directed one more time, an episode of Family, before deciding to stick to acting. | |
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Barnaby Jones recurring actor John Carter, who appeared in the role of Lt. John Biddle, directed "A Short, Happy Life" and "Run to Death". | |
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Ring of Honor's invoked Bizarro Episode A Night of Hoopla was written and produced by Truth Martini. | |
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JAG: David James Elliott directed three episodes; "Lifeline," "Take It Like A Man" and "There Goes The Neighborhood." Michael Weatherley (Tony) has directed two episodes of JAG's Spin-Off NCIS: the season eight episode "One Last Score" and the season ten episode "Seek". Rocky Carroll, who plays Director Leon Vance, directed the season twelve episode "We Build, We Fight", two season thirteen episodes: "Viral" and "Deja Vu", the season fourteen episode "Off the Grid", three season fifteen episodes "Skeleton Crew", "Family Ties", and "Death From Above", three season sixteen episodes: "Beneath the Surface", "The Last Link", and "Silent Service", and the season seventeen episode "No Vacancy". |
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Criminal Minds actor Matthew Gray Gubler considers directing to be his actual passion. He handled twelve episodes of the show, a number of which of which were hailed by critics: "Mosley Lane" (5x16): This one was definitely a Tear Jerker episode and, especially considering it involved heavy acting with teenagers and young children, was incredibly well executed. When you're able to get multiple really good performances out of kids, you're doing something right. "Lauren" (6x18): This one was Paget Brewster's (Emily Prentiss) "goodbye episode" (due to the fiasco called Executive Meddling during season six which A.J. Cook was fired and Paget's role was reduced. Both returned for season seven) and she wanted Matthew to direct it. Another fantastic episode which involved AJ Cook (JJ) returning for this episode and Emily faking her death. Needless to say, it was a Tear Jerker. "Heathridge Manor" (7x19): Very intriguing episode which was described by Matthew as "eerily cerebral". This one was more about the psychological horror rather than the blood and guts. |
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The Devil's Hairpin was written and directed by Cornel Wilde who also is the main star. | |
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ER had episodes directed by Laura Innes (12 total), Paul McCrane (9), and Anthony Edwards (4). Laura Innes and Paul McCrane even directed episodes after leaving the cast. | |
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Sailor Moon: The DiC dub was originally directed by Tracey Moore, the original voice of the title character. Later, Roland Parliament (Melvin/Umino) took over, while Terri Hawkes (Sailor Moon #2) and Mary Long (Molly/Naru and Katzy/Koan #2) assistant directed some episodes. For the Viz dub of the Eternal movies, Todd Haberkorn (who previously voiced Jadeite) does double duty as voice director and takes over as the voice of Rei's grandfather. |
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Patricia Wettig and Polly Draper are just about the only stars of thirtysomething who didn't direct an episode; one episode even featured Elliot (Timothy Busfield) making his directorial debut on a commercial (and yes, this episode was directed by a member of the cast - Melanie Mayron, not Busfield himself). Peter Horton and Ken Olin did six each, Timothy Busfield did three, Melanie Mayron did two, while Mel Harris directed "Out the Door". | |
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Benjamin King directed the Liv and Maddie episode "Repeat-a-Rooney". | |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: One episode directed by Mary Tyler Moore herself. | |
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He previously directed in the series Street Time, where he played main character Kevin Hunter. He directed the season one episode "Follow the Money", and two season two episodes: "Lockdown" and "Hostage". | |
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Susan Flannery has been a regular director on The Bold and the Beautiful in addition to her starring role as Stephanie Forrester for several years now. Her directing skills so impressed CBS that she was invited to direct a few episodes of another soap on CBS, Guiding Light. | |
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Randolph Mantooth directed 2 episodes of Emergency!. His character spent one of them in the hospital after being hit by a car in The Teaser, but he still had a lot of screen time. Kevin Tighe directed several episodes, writing another, and Michael Norell wrote 4. | |
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Sanctuary - Amanda Tapping has taken more than one spin in the director's chair, while Robin Dunne made his directing debut in season 4. Tapping also served as the executive producer for the show, and she has joked she did so to save the show some money by not paying her. | |
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The Bisexual: Desiree Akhavan played Leila, the lead character, while she was also the co-creator and director. | |
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As if sweeping Best Actor Emmy awards for Breaking Bad wasn't enough to take up Bryan Cranston's time, he also directed the second and third season premieres, as well as the midseason premiere of the final season. Bryan also directed seven episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, most notably the fifth season premiere. |
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Legends of Tomorrow had Caity Lotz (Sara) directing the episode "Mortal Khanbat". | |
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Wander over Yonder: Sam Riegel (the voice of Emperor Awesome) did the show's voice direction and wrote 3 episodes. | |
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Diagnosis: Murder: One episode is directed by Barry Van Dyke. | |
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Barry Morse directed one episode of The Fugitive, "The Shattered Silence". This episode was the last one aired before the two-part finale. | |
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Friends: David Schwimmer, who parlayed this into a career directing feature films and TV shows in which he does not star in (most notably Run Fatboy Run). | |
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Speaking of YuYu Hakusho, the main voice director of its anime adaptation was the aforementioned Justin Cook, who voiced Yusuke (in which he was only 19 when he started too). He also directed the first Fruits Basket anime series where he voiced Haru. | |
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Several of the later episodes of I Dream of Jeannie were directed by Larry Hagman. | |
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WKRP in Cincinnati: Frank Bonner directed 5 episodes, and Howard Hesseman and Gordon Jump directed one each. | |
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Night Court - John Larroquette, Harry Anderson, and Charles Robinson all helmed episodes. | |
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