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Ted Kotcheff

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Born in Toronto, Canada, Ted Kotcheff graduated with a degree in English Literature from the University of Toronto. He began his professional career directing TV drama at age 24 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, at the time becoming the youngest director in the CBC. After two years there he went to live and work in England, directing in television and the theatre... See full bio »

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William Theodore Kotcheff
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Hide HideProducer (7 titles)
2013 1066 (producer) (pre-production)
 
2013 Pumping Up (consulting executive producer) (pre-production)
 
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series) (executive producer - 263 episodes, 2000-2012) (co-executive producer - 22 episodes, 1999-2000)
– Rhodium Nights (2012) (executive producer)
– Father's Shadow (2012) (executive producer)
– Official Story (2012) (executive producer)
– Theatre Tricks (2012) (executive producer)
– Spiraling Down (2011) (executive producer)
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1983 Uncommon Valor (executive producer)
 
1982 Split Image (producer)
 
1958-1959 Armchair Theatre (TV series) (producer - 2 episodes)
– The Last Tycoon (1959) (producer - as William Kotcheff)
– Emperor Jones (1958) (producer - as William Kotcheff)
 
1956 On Camera (TV series) (producer - 1 episode)
– Some Are So Lucky (1956) (producer)
 
Show ShowDirector (49 titles)
2000-2005 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)
– 911 (2005)
– Doubt (2004)
– Control (2003)
– Mother (2003)
– Redemption (2001)
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1999 Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (TV movie)
 
1998 Buddy Faro (TV series)
 
1997 Borrowed Hearts (TV movie)
 
1996 A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (TV movie)
 
1995 Family of Cops (TV movie)
 
1995 Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass (video) (segment "Weekend Pass")
 
1995 Hidden Assassin
 
1994 Love on the Run (TV movie)
 
1993 Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick (video)
 
1993 What Are Families for? (TV movie)
 
1992 Casualty (TV series)
– Act of Faith (1992)
 
1992 Folks!
 
1992 Red Shoe Diaries (TV series)
– Just Like That (1992)
 
1989 Weekend at Bernie's
 
1989 Winter People
 
1988 Switching Channels
 
1985 Joshua Then and Now
 
1983 Uncommon Valor
 
1982 First Blood
 
1982 Split Image
 
1979 North Dallas Forty
 
1978 Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
 
1977 Fun with Dick and Jane
 
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
 
1974 Billy Two Hats
 
1973 Rx for the Defense (TV movie)
 
1971-1972 Play for Today (TV series)
– Ackerman, Dougall and Harker (1972)
– Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971)
 
1971 ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV series)
– The Signalman's Apprentice (1971)
 
1971 Wake in Fright
 
1969 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
– Have You Any Washing, Mother Dear? (1969)
 
1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing
 
1968 Of Mice and Men (TV movie)
 
1967 At the Drop of Another Hat (TV movie)
 
1967 The Desperate Hours (TV movie)
 
1966 The Human Voice (TV movie)
 
1966 Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn (TV movie)
 
1965 Life at the Top
 
1965 The Big Eat (TV movie)
 
1958-1964 Armchair Theatre (TV series)
– The Trial of Dr. Fancy (1964)
– Into the Dark (1963)
– Dead Letter (1962)
– The Hard Knock (1962)
– The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1961)
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1964 Drama 61-67 (TV series)
– Studio '64: The Close Prisoner (1964)
 
1963-1964 First Night (TV series)
– Land of My Dreams (1964)
– The Strain (1963)
 
1964 Land of My Dreams (TV movie)
 
1963 Espionage (TV series)
– The Dragon Slayer (1963) (as William T. Kotcheff)
 
1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV series)
– Collect Your Hand Baggage (1963)
 
1962 Tiara Tahiti (as William T. Kotcheff)
 
1961 I'll Have You to Remember (TV movie)
 
1957 Hour of Mystery (TV series)
– Spare Your Pity (1957)
 
1956 On Camera (TV series)
– Some Are So Lucky (1956)
 
Show ShowActor (3 titles)
2010 Barney's Version
Train Conductor
 
2003 Shattered Glass
Marty Peretz
 
1989 Weekend at Bernie's
Jack Parker, Richard's Dad
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
2008 Rambo (technical consultant)
 
1977 Why Shoot the Teacher? (production consultant)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1979 North Dallas Forty (screenplay)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2002 We Get to Win This Time (video documentary short) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (11 titles)
2012 Big Guns, Bigger Heroes: The 1980's and the Rise of the Action Film (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2011 Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema (video documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Cannes Film Festival 2009 (TV movie)
Himself
 
2008 Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 E! True Hollywood Story (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Mariska Hargitay (2008) … Himself
 
2005 On Screen! (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (2005) … Himself
 
2003 SVU: The Beginning (video short)
Himself
 
2002 Drawing First Blood (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 Guts and Glory (video short)
Himself
 
2001 I Love 1980's (TV series documentary)
– I Love 1982 (2001)
 
1982 The Making of 'First Blood' (TV documentary)
Himself
 

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Wake in Fright -- The story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction Weekend at Bernie's -- A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to "finish him off." Switching Channels -- A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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Stage: Directed musical "Maggie May". See more »

Alternate Names:

William T. Kotcheff | William Kotcheff
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