Council Biography

June 93- Elected President DGA
July 95-97 Re-elected President DGA

1990-2000 Director Milton Katseles professional acting class. Scenes from: : "A Life in the Theater," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Next Summer and Smoke," "Elmer Gantry," "Darkness at Noon," "Julius Caesar," "Waltz of the Toreadores," "Hospital," "The Tenth Man" and "Strange Interlude."
1998 "Touched by an Angel" CBS ("Cry and You Cry Alone") Director
1998 "Promised Land" CBS ("To Everything A Season") Director
1998 "Promised Land" CBS ("Crushed") Director
1997 "Touched By An Angel" CBS ("Last Call") Director
Oct. 1996 "Promised Land" CBS ("The Secret") Director
Aug. 1996 "Promised Land" CBS ("The Prodigy") Director
1995 "Touched By An Angel" CBS ("The Feather") Director
Nov. 1994 "Christy" CBS Director
1994 "Hotel Malibu" CBS Sweet Eugenia Films Director- Episodes
1993 "Second Chances" CBS Director- Episodes
1993 "Monte" Disney/Fox Director- Episodes
1993 "Lois and Clark" WB/ABC Director- Episodes
1991 "The Whereabouts Of Jenny" (MOW) Col/ ABC Director/ Producer
1990 "Life Goes On" WBABC Director
1990 "Blossom" Witt-Thomas/NBC Producer (8 episodes)
1989 "A Fine Romance" New World Phoenix/ ABC Director
1989 "In the Heat of The Night" MGM/NBC Director
1988 "Golden Land" PBS Tales of the Hollywood hills Director
1988 "Heartbeat" Spelling/ ABC Director
1987 "Mr. President" Paramount/Fox ExecProducer/ (Pilot) Director
1986 "Doing Life"(MOW) Phoenix/NBC ExecProducer/ Director
1986 "The Bloodbrothers" Viacom/CBS Director
1986 "Mr. Sunshine" Paramount/ABC Exec Producer (11 episodes)
1983-1985 MTM Development
1982 "In Defense of Kids" MTM/CBS Exec Producer/ (2-Hour Movie) Director
1978-1982 "Lou Grant" MTM/CBS Exec Producer Pilot Director
1973-1978 "M*A*S*H*" Fox/CBS Exec Producer Pilot Director Director (40 episodes)
1972 "Anna and The King" Fox/CBS Exec Producer Pilot Director
1969-1971 "Room 222" Fox/ABC Exec Producer
1968 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Fox/NBC Pilot Director/Producer
1958-1968 Freelance Directing
1963-1964 "My Three Sons" (74 episodes)
1964-1967 "Hogan's Heroes" (36 episodes) "Peter Gunn" "Andy Griffith Show" "Mannix" "Leave It To Beaver" "Pete and Gladys"
1958 "Alfred Hitchcock"
1959 "Wanted: Dead or Alive" "Hennesey" Episodes (First opportunity to direct given by Jackie Cooper and Don Maguire)
1957 Casting Director: "NBC Matinee Theatre", "Peter Gunn", "Bonanza"
1946-1956 Actor- Hollywood and New York "The Country Girl"- Paramount "Bridges of Toko Ri"- Paramount "New York Live TV: Actor "Danger", "The Web", "Philco", "Armstrong Circle Theatre"
1942-1946 Navy WWII- Destroyer Minesweep Zane DMS 14
1934-1941 Child actor under contract- MGM 1938-1941 "Boystown", "Edison The Man", "They Shall Have Music", "Of Human Hearts", "The Crowd Roars", "In Old Chicago"

AWARDS
1992 DGA - Robert Aldrich Award
1989 Producers, Writers, Directors Caucus- Producer of the Year Award
1982 UCLA Alumni Award Professional Achievement
1981 Women In Film- Norma Zarkey Award
1980 World Hunger Media Award- writer- "Hunger" episode- "Lou Grant"
1978 Christopher Award- "Lou Grant
1975 Broadcasters Preceptors Award
1969-1970 Emmy, Oustanding Comedy- "Room 222"
1974 Emmy, Oustanding Comedy- "M*A*S*H*"
1974-1975 Emmy, Best Direction Comedy Series- "M*A*S*H*"
1975-1976 Emmy, Best Direction Comedy Series- "M*A*S*H*"
1978-1979 Emmy, Best Dramatic Show- "Lou Grant"
1979-1980 Emmy, Best Dramatic Show- "Lou Grant"
1973&1975 Directors Guild of America Award, Best Director- "M*A*S*H*"
1978 Directors Guild of America Award, Best Director- "Lou Grant"
1975 Humanitas Prize (Producer)- "*M*A*S*H*"
1979 Humanitas Prize (Writer, "Hunger" episode)- "Lou Grant"

EDUCATION
UCLA B.A. Economics 1947

World War II
served four years U.S. Navy Destroyer Minesweep Zane DMS 14 June 1944- Jan. 1946 (Served with Herman Wouk)
USS Powell Destroyer- Mediterranean Jan. 1949- June 1946