
Dan Attias
Highest Rated: 41% Silver Bullet (1985)
Lowest Rated: 41% Silver Bullet (1985)
Birthday: Dec 4, 1951
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
In his career's nascency, director Daniel Attias served as an assistant to Steven Spielberg on "E.T." and "Twilight Zone: The Movie," two films whose creature-driven fantasy helped prepare him for his own directorial debut with the Stephen King-based werewolf chiller, "Silver Bullet" (1985). Following release of the film, Attias began directing exclusively for television, making his initial mark on the medium with episodes of popular series such as "Miami Vice," "Beauty and the Beast," and "21 Jump Street." By the '90s, he became a mainstay of network prime-time, instrumental in developing the familiar quirks and rhythms of everything from the lightly surrealistic dramedies "Ally McBeal" and "Northern Exposure" to the youth-oriented soaps "Party of Five," "Melrose Place," and "Beverly Hills, 90210." While Attias brought his genre roots to several standout installments of Joss Whedon's acclaimed action-fantasy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," his vibrant work on J J. Abrams's spy series "Alias" proved to be a forerunner of the disciplined, quasi-cinematic style with which he later imbued such highly celebrated HBO series as "Deadwood," "The Wire," "The Sopranos," and "Six Feet Under." Attias's 2000s oeuvre has been largely dominated by the pay-cable channel, but he frequently returns to his former home-base at FOX to helm episodes for such series as "House, M.D." and the improv-driven sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," on which he displays a rare loose approach.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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41% | 56% | Silver Bullet | Director | $10.8M | 1985 |
TV
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93% | 67% | Lucky Hank | Director | 2023 |
55% | 91% | Barkskins | Director | 2020 |
90% | 91% | Snowfall | Director | 2018-2019 |
88% | 79% | Castle Rock | Director | 2018 |
96% | 94% | The Americans | Director | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Get Shorty | Director | 2017 |
85% | 86% | Homeland | Director | 2011-2012 2014-2015 |
84% | 85% | Masters of Sex | Director | 2015 |
96% | 67% | Battle Creek | Director | 2015 |
53% | 69% | Resurrection | Director | 2014-2015 |
77% | 62% | Extant | Director | 2014 |
96% | 89% | Raising Hope | Director | 2013 |
79% | 78% | The Walking Dead | Director | 2012 |
90% | 96% | House | Director | 2005-2006 2009-2011 |
80% | 79% | Big Love | Director | 2007 2009-2011 |
97% | 87% | Treme | Director | 2010 |
31% | No Score Yet | Three Rivers | Director | 2010 |
86% | 90% | Lost | Director | 2005 2010 |
84% | 74% | Grey's Anatomy | Director | 2009 |
94% | 96% | The Wire | Director | 2003-2004 2006 2008 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Nine | Director | 2007 |
92% | 95% | Deadwood | Director | 2006 |
82% | No Score Yet | Commander in Chief | Director | 2005 |
86% | 87% | Alias | Director | 2001-2003 2005 |
86% | 95% | Boston Legal | Director | 2004 |
60% | No Score Yet | Line of Fire | Director | 2004 |
92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Director | 1999 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Director | 2000-2001 |
85% | 92% | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Director | 2000-2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Early Edition | Director | 1996-1997 |
82% | No Score Yet | Picket Fences | Director | 1996 |
25% | No Score Yet | The Client | Director | 1995 |
86% | 90% | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Director | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Northern Exposure | Director | 1993 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Director | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 21 Jump Street | Director | 1989-1990 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Beauty and the Beast | Director | 1989 |
71% | 81% | Miami Vice | Director | 1986 |