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