Jeff Bleckner Biography (1943-)

Full name, Jeffrey A. Bleckner; born August 12, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York,NY; son of Jack S. and Etta (maiden name, Paluba) Bleckner; married Jeanne Hepple. Addresses: Agent: Paradigm, 360 North Crescent Dr., North Building, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Nationality
American
Gender
Male
Occupation
Producer, director
Birth Details
August 12, 1943
New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Television Director
  • Series
  • Knots Landing, CBS, between 1981 and 1982
  • Television Executive Producer
  • Series
  • Mancuso F.B.I., NBC, 1989-90
  • Lifestories, NBC, 1990
  • The Round Table, NBC, 1992
  • Television Supervising Producer
  • Series
  • 10-8: Officers on Duty (also known as 10-8 and 10-8: Police Patrol), ABC, 2003-2004
  • Television Director
  • Miniseries
  • Fresno, CBS, 1986
  • Favorite Son (also known as Target: Favorite Son), NBC, 1988
  • In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (also knownas Bitter Blood), CBS, 1994
  • The Beast (also known as Peter Benchley's "The Beast"), NBC, 1996
  • The Beach Boys: An American Family, ABC, 2000
  • Black River (also known as Dean Koontz's "Black River"), Fox, 2001
  • Television Producer
  • Miniseries
  • In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (also knownas Bitter Blood), CBS, 1994
  • Co-executive producer, The Beach Boys: An American Family, ABC, 2000
  • Television Director
  • Movies
  • Willow B: Women in Prison (also known as Cages), 1980
  • Daddy, I'm Their Mama Now (also known as The Night Swimmers), 1981
  • Brotherly Love, CBS, 1985
  • Do You Remember Love?, CBS, 1985
  • My Father, My Son, CBS, 1988
  • Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (also knownas Hostile Witness, In the Hands of the Enemy, Terrorist onTrial, and The Trial), CBS, 1988
  • In Sickness and in Health (also known as Hearts on Fire), CBS, 1992
  • Last Wish, ABC, 1992
  • A Father for Charlie (also known as High Lonesome), CBS, 1995
  • Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (also known as Serving in Silence), NBC, 1995
  • The Advocate's Devil, ABC, 1997
  • Blackout Effect (also known as 747), NBC, 1998
  • Rear Window, ABC, 1998
  • Flowers for Algernon (also known as Charlie), CBS, 2000
  • Runaway Virus, ABC, 2000
  • "The Music Man" (musical; also known as "Meredith Willson's `The Music Man'"), The Wonderful World of Disney, ABC, 2003
  • NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323, ABC, 2004
  • Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II, ABC, 2005
  • Television Executive Producer with Others
  • Movies
  • What Happened to Bobby Earl? (also known as Murder in a CollegeTown), CBS, 1997
  • Blackout Effect (also known as 747), NBC, 1998
  • "The Music Man" (musical; also known as "Meredith Willson's `The Music Man'"), The Wonderful World of Disney, ABC, 2003
  • Television Producer
  • Movies
  • The Advocate's Devil, ABC, 1997
  • (With others) Flowers for Algernon (also known as Charlie),CBS, 2000
  • Runaway Virus, ABC, 2000
  • Television Director
  • Specials
  • Sticks and Bones, CBS, c. 1973
  • 3 by Cheever: O Youth and Beauty! (also known as O Youth and Beauty!), PBS, 1979
  • When Your Lover Leaves, 1983
  • "Concealed Enemies," American Playhouse, PBS, 1984
  • Episodic
  • "Pennsylvania Lynch," Visions, PBS, 1976
  • "Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare," The CBS Festival of LivelyArts for Young People, CBS, 1977
  • The Harvey Korman Show, ABC, 1978
  • The Stockard Channing Show, CBS, 1980
  • "La Strada," Breaking Away, ABC, 1981
  • "Second Sight," Trapper John, M.D., CBS, 1981
  • "The Birthday Party," Secrets of Midland Heights, CBS, c. 1981
  • "Blake's Blindness," Dynasty, ABC, 1982
  • "Candy Doctor," Trapper John, M.D., CBS, 1982
  • "Domestic Beef," Hill Street Blues, NBC, 1982
  • "Fireworks," Lou Grant, CBS, 1982
  • "Keepers of the Ring," King's Crossing, ABC, 1982
  • "Santaclaustraphobia," Hill Street Blues, NBC, 1982
  • "Steele Waters Run Deep," Remington Steele, NBC, 1982
  • "The World According to Freedom," Hill Street Blues, NBC, 1982
  • "Life in the Minors," Hill Street Blues, NBC, 1983
  • The Family Tree, NBC, 1983
  • "Ewe and Me, Babe," Hill Street Blues, NBC, 1984
  • Me & Mom, ABC, 1985
  • "The Actress," Hothouse, ABC, 1988
  • "Suspicious Minds," Mancuso F.B.I., ABC, 1988
  • "I Cover the Waterfront," Mancuso F.B.I., NBC, 1989
  • "Adamant Eve," Mancuso F.B.I., NBC, 1990
  • The Round Table, NBC, 1992
  • "Unfinished Symphony," Any Day Now, Lifetime, 1998
  • "Guilt," The Fugitive, CBS, 2000
  • "The Damage Done," The Beast, ABC, 2001
  • "Gun of a Son," 10-8: Officers on Duty (also known as 10-8and 10-8: Police Patrol), ABC, 2003
  • "Mercy, Mercy Me," 10-8: Officers on Duty (also known as 10-8 and 10-8: Police Patrol), ABC, 2003
  • "Gypsy Road," 10-8: Officers on Duty (also known as 10-8 and 10-8: Police Patrol), ABC, 2004
  • "Life in a Fishbowl," Summerland, The WB, 2004
  • "A Couple of Choices," Medium, NBC, 2005
  • "Tortured Souls," Boston Legal (also known as Fleet Street,The Practice: Fleet Street, and The Untitled Practice), ABC, 2005
  • Directed episodes of Another World, NBC; Doc, CBS; Guiding Light, CBS; Mr. Dugan; and Welcome Back, Kotter, ABC; also directed "Road Trip," an unaired episode of Clubhouse, CBS.
  • Television Executive Producer
  • Episodic
  • "Darryl Tevis," Lifestories, NBC, 1990
  • Television Director
  • Pilots
  • Honest Al's A-OK Used Car and Trailer Rental Tigers, syndicated, 1978
  • Ryan's Four, ABC, 1983
  • Things Are Looking Up, CBS, 1984
  • New Year (also known as New Year's 1999), ABC, 1993
  • (And producer) On Seventh Avenue (also known as 7th Avenue), NBC, 1996
  • Gramercy Park, ABC, 2004
  • Television Appearances
  • Specials
  • Himself, Behind the Scenes: The Music Man, 2002
  • Film Director
  • White Water Summer (also known as The Rites of Summer), Columbia, 1987
  • Stage Director
  • Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Eunuchs, ExperimentalTheatre, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1967
  • Coriolanus, 1968
  • The Unseen Hand [and] Forensic and the Navigators (double-bill), Astor Place Theatre, New York City, 1970
  • The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, New York Shakespeare Festival,Public Theatre, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, New York City, 1971
  • Twelfth Night (also known as Twelfth Night, or What You Will), Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 1971
  • Sticks and Bones, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, Anspacher Theatre, New York City, 1971-72, then John Golden Theatre, New YorkCity, 1972
  • Old Times, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1972
  • The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, Mark Taper Forum, 1972
  • The Orphan, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1973
  • The Death and Life of Jesse James, Mark Taper Forum, 1974
  • The Father, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1975
  • FDR, Washington, DC, 1977
  • The Goodbye People, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1979

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