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

User Contributions:

Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:

forum