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Daniel Sackheim
Born	1962 (age 61–62) Los Angeles, United States
Occupation(s)	Film director, television producer, television director
Years active	1984–present
Spouse	Leslie Sackheim
Children	2
Parent(s)	William Sackheim JoAnne Cohen Sackheim
Website	danielsackheim.com

Daniel Sackheim (born in 1962) is an American television and film director, producer, and photographer. Sackheim has produced and directed for The X-Files, Law & Order, House and NYPD Blue. He also directed The Walking Dead, The Americans, and Ozark, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award as a director and been nominated twice for his work as a producer and director. Sackheim directed the third and fourth episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.

Life and career

Daniel Sackheim was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, the son of screenwriter William Sackheim and his wife JoAnne (née Cohen). His brother Drew Sackheim is a fashion photographer. He is married to Leslie Sackheim; they have two children, Josh and Emma, and live in Encino, California.

Sackheim's career began with a role as an assistant film editor on the 1984 John Cassavetes film Love Streams, before he found work as a music supervisor and associate producer on the NBC series Miami Vice.

Sackheim's first time as a director was on "Mushrooms", a 1991 episode from the premiere season of the television series Law & Order. Sackheim later went on to produce the pilot episode of The X-Files and direct the pilot episode of Harsh Realm. Sackheim also served as an executive producer for the 2005 series Night Stalker, a remake of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker; and again as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder. Sackheim directed the pilot episode of NBC's Hawaii and the television films Homeland Security and The Lottery. Sackheim made his feature film directing debut on 2001's The Glass House. In 1999, he signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television.

From 2010 Sackheim has directed a number of episodes of high rating AMC series The Walking Dead, and since 2013 has also worked as a producer on the FX series The Americans which was listed in the American Film Institute Awards 2013 best ten television programs of the year; as well as serving as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder. He has also directed three episodes of Jack Ryan.

On July 21, 2020, he and producer Tony To founded Bedrock Entertainment with ITV Studios America as partner.

Awards

Sackheim's work has earned him one Primetime Emmy Award and three additional Emmy nominations. In 1994, Sackheim won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, having been nominated for his work on the NYPD Blue episode "Tempest in a C-Cup". His three other nominations have both been for Outstanding Drama Series in the role of producer—for Law & Order in 1992, and for House in 2007. and outstanding directing for Ozark in 2018.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role
1984	Love Streams	Assistant editor
1994	Midnight Run for Your Life	Director
1995	In the Shadow of Evil	Director
1996	Grand Avenue	Director
1996	The Lottery	Director
1998	The X-Files	Producer
2001	The Glass House	Director
2004	Homeland Security	Director; co-executive producer
2010	Baby	Producer (uncredited)

Television

Series	As director	As producer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents	—	21 episodes
Miami Vice	—	42 episodes
Law & Order	7 episodes	44 episodes
ER	1 episode	—
Earth 2	1 episode	—
NYPD Blue	3 episodes	—
Millennium	1 episode	11 episodes
The X-Files	5 episodes	23 episodes
Harsh Realm	3 episodes	8 episodes
Judging Amy	3 episodes	24 episodes
Kingpin	2 episodes	5 episodes
The Lyon's Den	1 episode	2 episodes
Hawaii	1 episode	—
Las Vegas	1 episode	5 episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	1 episode	—
Night Stalker	2 episodes	5 episodes
House	7 episodes	44 episodes
Life	7 episodes	31 episodes
Lie to Me	6 episodes	35 episodes
Bones	1 episode	—
The Finder	2 episodes	9 episodes
The Walking Dead	3 episodes	—
The Americans	7 episodes	26 episodes
The Bridge	1 episode	—
The Leftovers	2 episodes	—
Battle Creek	1 episode	—
Game of Thrones	2 episodes	—
The Man in the High Castle	1 episode	—
Fear the Walking Dead	1 episode	—
Better Call Saul	2 episodes	—
Ozark	2 episodes	—
Jack Ryan	3 episodes	—
The First	2 episodes	—
True Detective	4 episodes	—
Servant	2 episodes	—
Lovecraft Country	2 episodes	—

Footnotes

Ruland, Colter (29 October 2021). "Daniel Sackheim: Biography & Artwork – CAI". contemporaryartissue.
Bloom, Nate (September 4, 2018). "The big Emmys, and the other Emmys". J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
^ Los Angeles Times: "JoAnne Sackheim July 11, 1924 - May 15, 2014 May 15, 2014
McLellan, Dennis (December 7, 2004). "William Sackheim, 84; TV Writer, Producer Won 2 Emmy Awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
"BFI | Film & TV Database | Sackheim, Daniel". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | Sackheim, Daniel | Filmography". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
"Daniel Sackheim biography and filmography". Tribute. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
^ Lowry, Brian (January 6, 2012). "Variety Reviews". Variety. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
Justin, Chang (February 4, 2005). "Daniel Sackheim (Tenpercenteries)(Brief article)". Variety. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2012. (subscription required)
Hontz, Jenny (January 20, 1999). "Sackheim signs Fox TV deal". Variety. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
Denise Petski (21 July 2020). "Tony To & Dan Sackheim Team To Launch Bedrock Entertainment With ITV Studios America". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
"Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for 1994 – Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing in a Drama Series". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
"Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for 1992 – Outstanding Drama Series". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
"Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for 2007 – Outstanding Drama Series". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 14, 2012.

External links

Daniel Sackheim at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Daniel Sackheim
Midnight Run for Your Life (1994) Grand Avenue (1996) The Glass House (2001) Homeland Security (2004)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1950s	Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
1960s	Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960) George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961) Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (1962) Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963) Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964) Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966) Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967) Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968) David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970) Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971) Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972) Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973) Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974) Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975) David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976) David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977) Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978) Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
1980s	Roger Young for "Cop" (1980) Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981) Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982) Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983) Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984) Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985) Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986) Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987) Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988) Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
1990s	Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990) Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991) Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992) Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993) Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994) Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996) Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997) Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Lost Israel, Part 2" (1998) Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
2000s	Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000) Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001) Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002) Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003) Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004) J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005) Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006) Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007) Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008) Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
2010s	Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010) Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011) Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012) David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013) Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014) David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016) Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017) Stephen Daldry for "Paterfamilias" (2018) Jason Bateman for "Reparations" (2019)
2020s	Andrij Parekh for "Hunting" (2020) Jessica Hobbs for "War" (2021) Hwang Dong-hyuk for "Red Light, Green Light" (2022) Mark Mylod for "Connor's Wedding" (2023) Frederick E. O. Toye for "Crimson Sky" (2024)

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