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Tim Hunter (director)

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Tim Hunter
Born (1947-06-15) June 15, 1947 (age 75)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University (1968)
Occupation(s)Television and film director
Years active1979–present
Known forRiver's Edge, Carnivàle, Mad Men, Twin Peaks
ParentIan McLellan Hunter

Tim Hunter (born June 15, 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American television and film director.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California, the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, and one of the world's most populous megacities. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The majority of the city proper lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending partly through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to its east. It covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km2), and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million residents as of 2022.

California

California

California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2 million residents across a total area of approximately 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. It is also the most populated subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7 million residents and the latter having over 9.6 million. Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the most populous city in the state and the second most populous city in the country. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major city in the country. Los Angeles County is the country's most populous, while San Bernardino County is the largest county by area in the country. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and it has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Television director

Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the producer's vision is delivered. Their duties may include originating program ideas, finding contributors, writing scripts, planning 'shoots', ensuring safety, leading the crew on location, directing contributors and presenters, and working with an editor to assemble the final product. The work of a television director can vary widely depending on the nature of the program, the practices of the production company, whether the program content is factual or drama, and whether it is live or recorded.

Film director

Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking.

Career

Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series including Breaking Bad, Carnivàle, Chicago Hope, Crossing Jordan, Deadwood,[1] Falcon Crest, Homicide: Life on the Street, House, Law & Order, Lie to Me, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, Glee, Revenge, Pretty Little Liars and American Horror Story. During the early to mid-1980s, Hunter directed several feature films, including 1986's River's Edge, which won that year's award for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.

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Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White, an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited high-school chemistry teacher who is struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, to produce and distribute methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld. Breaking Bad premiered on AMC on January 20, 2008, and concluded on September 29, 2013, after five seasons consisting of 62 episodes.

Carnivàle

Carnivàle

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The series, created by Daniel Knauf, ran for two seasons between 2003 and 2005. In tracing the lives of disparate groups of people in a traveling carnival, Knauf's story combined a bleak atmosphere with elements of the surreal in portraying struggles between good and evil and between free will and destiny. The show's mythology drew upon themes and motifs from traditional Christianity and gnosticism together with Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar order.

Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope

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Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan

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Deadwood (TV series)

Deadwood (TV series)

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Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera created by Earl Hamner Jr. that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the California wine industry set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley, located northeast of San Francisco and modeled after the real Napa Valley.

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police drama television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from January 31, 1993, to May 21, 1999, and was succeeded by Homicide: The Movie (2000), which served as the series finale. The series was created by Paul Attanasio and based on David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991). Many of the characters and stories used throughout the show were based on events depicted in the book.

House (TV series)

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Glee (TV series)

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American Horror Story

American Horror Story

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Feature film

Feature film

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Independent Spirit Awards

Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards, founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the bare budgets of independent films. Since 2006, winners have received a metal trophy depicting a bird with its wings spread sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole.

Critical reception

Janet Maslin made the following comments about Hunter's work on the films River's Edge and Tex:[2]

As he demonstrated in Tex, Mr. Hunter has an extraordinarily clear understanding of teen-age characters, especially those who must find their own paths without much parental supervision. But the S. E. Hinton story for that film is a great deal more innocent than this one, and a lot more easily understood. While Mr. Hunter retains his ear for adolescent dialogue (the screenplay is by Neal Jimenez) and his eye for the aimless, restless behavior of these characters, neither he nor we can easily make the necessary leap to understand their casualness about Samson's crime. That Mr. Hunter is brave enough to avoid easy moralizing and easy explanations finally makes his film harder to fathom.

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Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as a Times film critic from 1977 to 1999 and as a book critic from 2000 to 2015. In 2000, Maslin helped found the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. She is president of its board of directors.

Tex (film)

Tex (film)

Tex is a 1982 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Tim Hunter in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Charles S. Haas and Hunter, based on S. E. Hinton's best-selling 1979 novel of the same name. It follows two teenage brothers in rural Oklahoma and their struggle to grow up after their mother's death and their father's departure. The film stars Matt Dillon in the title role, with Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, and Ben Johnson in supporting roles. Metzler was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance.

S. E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre.

Neal Jimenez

Neal Jimenez

Neal Jimenez was an American screenwriter and film director, best known for the 1986 film River's Edge. He was a member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. He won Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature and Best Screenplay for The Waterdance.

Personal life

Hunter was born in Los Angeles, the son of British screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1968.[3]


Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes
1979 Over the Edge Writer
1982 Tex Director and writer
1985 Sylvester Director
1986 River's Edge Director
1989 Paint It Black Director
1993 The Saint of Fort Washington Director
1996 The Colony Director
The People Next Door Director
1997 The Maker Director
1998 Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples Director, segment "Aart and Johtje Vos"
Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families Director, segment "Malka Csizmadia"
1999 Mean Streak Director
2001 Anatomy of a Hate Crime Director
2002 Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story Director
2003 The Failures Director
2004 Control Director
2006 The Far Side of Jericho Director
2007 Kings of South Beach Director
2018 Looking Glass Director
2020 Smiley Face Killers Director

Television

Year Title Notes
1988-1990 Falcon Crest Director, 2 episodes
1990-1991 Twin Peaks Director, 3 episodes
1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 Director, episode "Class of Beverly Hills"
1991-1993 Dark Justice Director, 2 episodes
1991 Lies of the Twins Director, television film
1991 Eerie, Indiana Director, 2 episodes
1993 Bakersfield P.D. Director, episode "There Goes the Neighborhood"
1994 Chicago Hope Director, episode "You Gotta Have Heart"
1994-1995 Homicide: Life on the Street Director, 4 episodes
1995 Central Park West Director, episode "Days of Thunder"
Fallen Angels Director, episode "Fly Paper"
1997 Moloney Director, episode "Misconduct"
1998 Michael Hayes Director, episode "Vaughn Mower"
Sins of the City Director, episode "Honor Among Thieves"
Four Corners Director, 2 episodes
2000 Profiler Director, episode "Clean Sweep"
Soul Food Director, episode "Claiming"
2001 Dead Last Director, episode "To Serve, with Love"
2003 Out of Order Director, 5 episodes
2003-2005 Crossing Jordan Director, 2 episodes
Carnivàle Director, 2 episodes
2004 The 4400 Director, episode "White Light"
CSI: NY Director, episode "Creatures of the Night"
2004-2006 Cold Case Director, 3 episodes
2005 House Director, episode "Mob Rules"
Line of Fire Director, episode "Born to Run"
2006 South Beach Director, episode "Who Do You Trust"
Deadwood Director, episode "A Rich Find"
2006-2008 Law & Order Director, 2 episodes
2007-2008 Mad Men Director, 6 episodes
2008 Breaking Bad Director, episode "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal"
Army Wives Director, episode "Duplicity"
Sons of Anarchy Director, episode "Giving Back"
Brotherhood Director, episode "All the Interim is like a Phantasma..."
2008-2009 Dexter Director, 2 episodes
2009 Lie to Me Director, episode "Love Always"
2009-2010 Nip/Tuck Director, 3 episodes
2010 Saving Grace Director, episode "Let’s Talk"
The Glades Director, episode "The Girlfriend Experience"
Caprica Director, episode "Things We Lock Away"
Outlaw Director, episode "In Re: Kelvin Jones"
2011 Glee Director, episode "Rumours"
American Horror Story Director, episode "Open House"
2011-2012 Revenge Director, 2 episodes
2011-2013 Necessary Roughness Director, 3 episodes
2012 Breakout Kings Director, episode "Round Two"
Pretty Little Liars Director, episode "This is a Dark Ride"
2013 Cult Director, episode "The Kiss"
2013-2014 Hannibal Director, 4 episodes
2014 Intelligence Director, episode "The Grey Hat"
The Lottery Director, episode "Genie"
Gotham Director, episode "Viper"
2015 Powers Director, episode "Aha Shake Heartbreak"
The Messengers Director, episode "Why We Fight"
Scream Director, 2 episodes
Wayward Pines Director, 2 episodes
Blood & Oil Director, episode "The Art of the Deal"
2016 The Blacklist Director, episode "Lady Ambrosia"
Underground Director, 2 episodes
Frequency Director, episode "Break, Break, Break"
2016-2018 Bosch Director, 2 episodes
2017 Hand of God Director, episode "When You Pull the Trigger"
2018 Riverdale Director, episode "Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle"
2020 neXt Director, episodes "file #3"/"file #6"

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Over the Edge (film)

Over the Edge (film)

Over the Edge is an American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and released in May 1979. The film, based on actual events, had a limited theatrical release but has since achieved cult film status. It was Matt Dillon's film debut.

Sylvester (film)

Sylvester (film)

Sylvester is a 1985 American family drama film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Richard Farnsworth and Melissa Gilbert. The film was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1986.

River's Edge

River's Edge

River's Edge is a 1986 American crime drama film directed by Tim Hunter, written by Neal Jimenez, and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch in her film debut, Daniel Roebuck and Dennis Hopper. It follows a group of teenagers in a Northern California town who are forced to deal with their friend's murder of his girlfriend and the subsequent disposal of her body. Jimenez partially based the script on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad in Milpitas, California.

Paint It Black (1989 film)

Paint It Black (1989 film)

Paint It Black is a 1989 American thriller film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Rick Rossovich and Doug Savant.

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

Anatomy of a Hate Crime is a 2001 American made-for-television docudrama based on a true crime; it was written by Max Ember and directed by Tim Hunter. It stars Cy Carter, Brendan Fletcher, and Ian Somerhalder. The film is based on the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. It premiered on MTV on December 10, 2001, and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. After the broadcast, MTV went dark for 17 1⁄2 hours while it aired a continuous on-screen scroll listing the names of hundreds of United States hate crime victims.

Control (2004 film)

Control (2004 film)

Control is a 2004 American direct-to-video film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez. It was produced by a United States production company and filmed in Bulgaria. Originally given a proposed theatrical release in the United States by Lionsgate, the film was instead shelved until it was eventually given a release on home video by Millennium Entertainment.

Kings of South Beach

Kings of South Beach

Kings of South Beach is a 2007 American crime drama television film directed by Tim Hunter and written by Nicholas Pileggi, about an infamous operator of nightclubs in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida. The lead character is portrayed by Jason Gedrick; his best friend is portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg. The film premiered on March 12, 2007 on A&E.

Looking Glass (film)

Looking Glass (film)

Looking Glass is a 2018 American thriller film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Nicolas Cage. It was released in the United States by Momentum Pictures on February 16, 2018.

Smiley Face Killers (film)

Smiley Face Killers (film)

Smiley Face Killers is a 2020 American slasher film directed by Tim Hunter and written by Bret Easton Ellis, loosely based on the Smiley face murder theory. The film stars Ronen Rubinstein, Mia Serafino, and Crispin Glover.

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera created by Earl Hamner Jr. that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the California wine industry set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley, located northeast of San Francisco and modeled after the real Napa Valley.

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American teen drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling under his production company Spelling Television. The series ran for ten seasons on Fox from October 4, 1990, to May 17, 2000, and is the first of six television series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. The series follows the lives of a group of friends living in Beverly Hills, California, as they transition from high school to college and into the adult world. "90210" refers to one of the city's five ZIP codes.

Dark Justice

Dark Justice

Dark Justice is an American crime drama television series about a judge who becomes a vigilante by night so that he can bring high-level offenders who use technicalities to "escape" the legal system to what he calls "dark justice." The role of Judge Nicholas Marshall was played by actors Ramy Zada (1991) and Bruce Abbott (1992–1993).

Source: "Tim Hunter (director)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 27th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunter_(director).

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Further Reading

Dalton Trumbo

Roman Holiday

Spartacus (film)

Jeffrey Jones

Alan Tudyk

Running on Empty (1988 film)

Dangerous Minds

Timothy Olyphant

River's Edge

Tex (film)

Robert W. Cort

Trumbo (2015 film)
References
  1. ^ Tim Hunter (director), Alix Lambert (writer) (2006-07-16). "A Rich Find". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 6. HBO.
  2. ^ Maslin, Janet (May 8, 1987). "Critic's Pick: River's Edge". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
  3. ^ "Timeline of the Office for the Arts at Harvard". Harvard University. Retrieved 2009-08-10. 1985:..."Style and Development of Film Narrative," two-week film production workshop taught by Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Tim Hunter '68 (Nov.).
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