Daniel Sackheim

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

Daniel Sackheim 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 and is currently working as a director on The Walking Dead and The Americans. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award as a director and been nominated twice for his work as a producer. Sackheim directed the third and fourth episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.

Life and career

Daniel Sackheim is the son of screenwriter William Sackheim and his wife JoAnne (née Cohen).^[1] His brother Drew Sackheim is a fashion photographer.^[2]^[3] He is married to Leslie Sackheim; they have two children, Josh and Emma, and live in Encino, California.^[1]

Sackheim's career began with a role as an assistant film editor on the 1984 John Cassavetes film Love Streams,^[4] before he found work as a music supervisor and associate producer on the NBC series Miami Vice.^[5]

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;^[4] and again as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder.^[6] Sackheim directed the pilot episode of NBC's Hawaii and the television films Homeland Security and The Lottery.^[4]^[7] Sackheim made his feature film directing debut on 2001's The Glass House, which was poorly received by reviewers.^[8]

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 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.^[9]

Awards

Sackheim's work has earned him one Primetime Emmy Award and two 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".^[10] His two other nominations have both been for Outstanding Drama Series in the role of producer—for Law & Order in 1992,^[11] and for House in 2007.^[12]

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

Television

Series	As director	As producer
The New 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	—
The 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	7 episodes
The Walking Dead	3 episodes	—
The Americans	3 episodes	—
The Leftovers	1 episode	—
Game of Thrones	2 episodes	—
The Man in the High Castle (TV series)	1 episode	—
Better Call Saul	1 episode	—

Footnotes

1 2 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. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
1 2 3 "BFI | Film & TV Database | Sackheim, Daniel | Filmography". British Film Institute. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
↑ "Daniel Sackheim biography and filmography". Tribute. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
↑ Lowry, Brian (January 6, 2012). "Variety Reviews – The Finder – TV Review – Review by Brian Lowry". Variety. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
↑ Justin, Chang (February 4, 2005). "Daniel Sackheim (Tenpercenteries)(Brief article)". Variety. Retrieved June 14, 2012. (subscription required)
↑ "The Glass House". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
↑ Lowry, Brian (January 6, 2012). "Variety Reviews – The Finder – TV Review – Review by Brian Lowry". Variety. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
↑ "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 on IMDb

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960)
George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961)
Franklin J. Schaffner (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)
Lee H. Katzin (1968)
David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970)
Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" / Fielder Cook for "The Price" (1971)
Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972)
Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" / Joseph Sargent for "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" (1973)
John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974)
Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975)
David Greene for Episode 8 (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976)
David Greene for Roots ("Part 1") (1977)
Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)
Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
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)
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 "Brain Salad Surgery" (1998)
Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
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)
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)

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