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Years active
  
1954-2002

Name
  
Joseph Scanlan

Role
  
Film director


Full Name
  
Joseph Lawrence Scanlan

Born
  
August 16, 1929 (age 94) (
1929-08-16
)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Occupation
  
Television & Film director

Nominations
  
Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series

Movies
  
Stand Against Fear, I Still Dream of Jeannie, Picture Perfect, Spring Fever, Nightstick

Similar People
  
Shanna Reed, Gay Rowan, Avery Brooks, Robert Urich, Stuart Gillard

Spring Fever 1983 TV Spot


Joseph Lawrence Scanlan (born August 16, 1929) is an American film and television director who has also directed episodes for such popular TV shows as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, What's Happening!!, Spenser: For Hire, Falcon Crest, Land of the Lost, and also the NBC-TV soap operas Somerset and Another World in the early 1970s. He also directed four episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation during its first and second seasons, and also, an episode of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.

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Filmography

  • Flatland
  • Largo Winch (pilot)
  • La Femme Nikita
  • Strange World
  • Race Against Fear: A Moment of Truth Movie (1998)
  • Earth: Final Conflict
  • Players (two episodes)
  • Dead Man's Gun (1997) (pilot)
  • Stand Against Fear (1996)
  • The Outer Limits
  • Poltergeist: The Legacy
  • Dangerous Minds (multiple episodes)
  • Picture Perfect
  • Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
  • Spenser: A Savage Place (1995)
  • Spenser: The Judas Goat (1994)
  • Due South
  • The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (three episodes)
  • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
  • North of 60 (as Joseph Scanlan)
  • I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991)
  • Homefront
  • The Hidden Room
  • The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid
  • The Young Riders
  • Island Son
  • Quantum Leap
  • Paradise
  • War of the Worlds
  • The Return of Ben Casey (1988)
  • Nightstick (1987)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Adderly
  • Spenser: For Hire
  • Spring Fever (1982)
  • Falcon Crest
  • The Starlost: Deception (1980)
  • Knots Landing
  • The Littlest Hobo
  • Land of the Lost
  • What's Happening!! (1 episode)
  • Our Man Flint: Dead on Target (1976)
  • The Starlost
  • The Secret Storm (multiple episodes) (1972)
  • Another World (1971)
  • Somerset (1970–1973)

    • Awards and nominations

    Scanlan was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series (The Outer Limits) in 1995. He directed "The Big Goodbye" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) which won a Peabody award in 1987.

    References

    Joseph L. Scanlan Wikipedia
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