The Directors
Peter Baldwin
Born 1/31, Winnetka, IL
Director (partial listing): The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, Sanford and Son,
The Bob Newhart Show, Benson, Too Close for Comfort, Newhart, The Wonder Years, Murphy Brown,
Cybill, Love Boat: The Next Wave.
1989 Emmy for Outstanding Director in Comedy Series (single episode), The Wonder Years;
nominated 1991.
1972 Emmy nomination for MTMS episode "Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda"
One of the most prolific directors in television.
Jerry Belson
Director: Odd Couple, "Jeckyll and Hyde, Together Again" (1982), "Surrender" (1982).
Executive Producer: The Tracey Ullman Show
Co-wrote episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show with Garry Marshall.
Awards: WGA Award for Comedy Writing, "Smile" (1975) ; multiple Emmys (shared) for Outstanding
Comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show.
Bruce Bilson
Director of numerous other TV series, including The Brady Bunch, Bonanza, Bewitched, Green Acres, Hawaii Five-O,
Emergency, The Six Million Dollar Man, Touched by an Angel, The New Twilight Zone, The New Munsters,
The Bradys, Love Boat: The Next Wave.
James Burrows
Born 12/30/40, USA.
Director (partial listing): The Bob Newhart Show, Laverne & Shirley, The Betty White Show, Taxi, Cheers, Night Court,
George & Leo, Third Rock from the Sun, Frasier.
Awards: Numerous Emmy awards/nominations for "Cheers" (usually shared), which he created and co-produced from 1984-1993.
Norman Campbell
Director: All in the Family, One Day at a Time.
Producer: "Much Ado About Nothing", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Boys from Syracuse" and other TV movies.
John C. Chulay
Director: First Asst. Director, The Dick Van Dyke Show, directed many episodes of The Bob Newhart Show.
Production Manager: "The Breakfast Club"
Awards: Director's Guild Award for Outstanding Direction, "Inside the Third Reich" (1982).
Relative J. Benjamin Chulay (son?) played the blonde newsie in WJM Newsroom in nearly every episode. J.C. Chulay died around 1985.
Martin Cohan
Director: The Bob Newhart Show
Producer: Diff'rent Strokes, Flying High.
Co-produced Who's the Boss with Blake Hunter.
Hal Cooper
Director (partial listing): Maude, Sanford and Son, All in the Family, The Odd Couple, The Brady Bunch,
Love American Style, That Girl, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, The Art Linkletter Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Awards: Two Emmy nominations for "Maude" (outstanding directing).
Jackie Cooper
Born John Cooperman, 9/15/21, USA.
Originally an actor, whose work dates back to 1929. Has appeared in "Pink Panther Strikes Again",
"The Invisible Man", all three "Superman" films, The Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote, Kojak, St. Elsewhere, and
numerous other films and TV series/movies.
Director (partial listing): M*A*S*H, The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, Trapper John M.D., The White Shadow, St. Elsewhere, Magnum P.I.
Awards: Oscar nomination, Best Actor "Skippy" (1931), Emmy for Outstanding Directing in Comedy for single episode
of M*A*S*H (1974).
Reportedly hated working on the one episode of MTMS he directed because he detested their open, flexible working
methods.
Joan Darling
Birth name: Joan Kugell. Born 4/14/35.
Originally actress, who appeared in (partial listing) "The Troublemaker" (1964), "The President's Analyst" (1967).
Director (partial listing): M*A*S*H, Taxi, Magnum P.I., Doc. "The Check is In the Mail" (1986).
Directed the famous "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of MTMS, when Jay Sandrich deemed it "too problematic".
As a result, she rightfully won an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Direction for a Single Episode in a Comedy Series.
Mel Ferber
Director (partial listing): Way Out, Joey Bishop, Happy Days, Quincy, C.P.O. Sharkey.
Herbert Kenwith
Director (partial listing): Bosom Buddies, Diff'rent Strokes, Good Times, Sanford and Son, Here's Lucy, Star Trek, Valiant Lady.
Jerry London
Director (partial listing): Hawaii Five-O, Hogan's Heroes, Love American Style, Marcus Welby M.D., The Brady Bunch,
The Bob Newhart Show, Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Shogun, Chicago Hope.
and the TV movies "Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story", "Take Me Home: The John Denver Story".
Awards: Director's Guild Award (shared) for Shogun (TV version).
Stuart Margolin
Born 1/31/40, USA.
Majority of work as actor. Appeared in (partial listing): "Rockford Files", "Mary Tyler Moore Show" (as Warren Sturges, Mary's worst date!), Love American Style,
Ironside, Hill Street Blues, Matlock, M*A*S*H, Bewitched, Gunsmoke.
Director (partial listing): "Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride" ; Quantum Leap, North of 60, Rockford Files,
Love Boat, Magnum P.I., The Ray Bradbury Theater.
Harry Mastrogeorge
Director: "From Here to Eternity" (1980), "Venus and Mars" (2000).
Marjorie Mullen
Complete mini-biography.
Jerry Paris
Born: 7/25/25, USA.
Best known as director and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show, where he directed numerous episodes
and played Jerry Helper, next-door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore)
Actor, appearing in numerous films in the 1950's. TV series appearances (partial listing): Alfred Hitchcock
Presents, The Fugitive, Steve Canyon, The Untouchables.
Became director in 1961, first directing The Joey Bishop Show, then DVDS. Was house director
of Happy Days from 1974-84. Also directed MTMS, Love American Style, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park.
Died: 3/31/86 (brain tumor/stroke)
Alan Rafkin
Born circa 1930.
Graduate of Syracuse University, which has a collection of nearly all the scripts from
shows he directed.
Producer: Me and the Chimp, Love American Style, The Love Boat.
Director (partial listing): The Donna Reed Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie,
That Girl, The Bob Newhart Show, M*A*S*H, Laverne & Shirley, Murphy Brown, Coach, Suddenly Susan, Veronica's
Closet.
One of the longest working and most prolific directors in TV.
Doug Rogers
Director (partial listing): The New Munsters, The Betty White Show, Diff'rent Strokes, In the Beginning.
Creator: Hello, Larry (1979).
Jay Sandrich
Born: 2/24/32, USA.
House director of MTMS, directing over two-thirds of the episodes in the series.
Director (partial listing): Insight, Get Smart, That Girl, The Odd Couple, MTMS, The Bob Newhart Show,
Rhoda, Night Court, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest.
Was also house director of The Cosby Show.
Awards: Emmy awards for Outstanding Direction in a Comedy Series for The Cosby Show (1985 and 1986).
Directors Guild Awards (shared) for The Cosby Show and The Golden Girls.
Nancy Walker
Complete mini-biography
George Tyne
Born 2/6/11. Also known as Buddy Tyne.
Actor. Appeared in numerous films in the 1940's. Guest appearances on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible.
Director (partial listing): Love American Style, The Brady Bunch, The Bob Newhart Show,
The Odd Couple, M*A*S*H, Space Academy, The Practice, Love Boat.
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