Roger Young
Directing
Born 1942-05-13
Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Roger E. Young (born 13 May 1942) is an American TV and film director. He won an Emmy Award in 1980 in Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for Lou Grant (episode: Cop). He was born in Champaign, Illinois. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois. He worked as a producer-director at Channel 6, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, IN. Then moved to Chicago and became a producer for Foote-Cone & Belding Advertising, where he produced national commercials. Later he moved to directing commercials for the production company of Lippert-Saviano, and then Topel & Associates. Finally he opened his own production company, Young & Company, producing and directing commercials. In 1977 he moved to Los Angeles and was hired as Associate Producer on a television film entitled "Something for Joey". This led to being offered Associate Producer of "Lou Grant" the television series starring Ed Asner. Gene Reynolds, Executive Producer of the show, became Mr. Young's mentor, and in the second season Mr. Young was given the opportunity to direct an episode. He won an Emmy and two Director's Guild Awards for directing episodes of the series. He then directed the two-hour pilot of "Magnum, P.I.", and many other pilots... all but one of them being picked up for series. Mr. Young then began to concentrate on long form television: two hour films and mini-series.
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Filmography
Law & Order
The Closer
Magnum, P.I.
Knots Landing
Rome
Lou Grant
Hardcastle and McCormick
Joseph
The Bourne Identity
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
The Red Tent
Jesus
Hercules
Saint Paul
Lassiter
Dracula
Moses
Saint Paul
Joseph
Barabbas
Augustus: The First Emperor
Solomon
Dracula's Kiss
Gulag
Legmen
Jewels
Jesus
The Squeeze
Kiss the Sky
Barabbas
An Innocent Love
Solomon
Final Descent
Murder in Mississippi
A Knight in Camelot
Into Thin Air
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Under Siege
Love Among Thieves
Getting Gotti
Eye to Eye
Victim of Beauty
The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story
Heart Full of Rain
Two of a Kind
Dreams Don't Die
Virus
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771
Love and Lies
One Special Night
The Thin Blue Lie
For Love and Glory
Sisters and Other Strangers
Bitter Harvest
Geronimo
Mortal Fear
Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story
Doublecrossed
Augustus: The First Emperor
Magnum PI: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii
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