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American theatre, television, and film director
Jeff Bleckner (born August 12, 1943) is an American
theatre,
television, and
film director.
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.
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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)
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- 2012 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television/Mini-Series (
Beyond the Blackboard, 2011)
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