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Donald P. Bellisario
Highest Rated: 100% United We Fan (2018)
Lowest Rated: 100% United We Fan (2018)
Birthday: Aug 8, 1935
Birthplace: Cokeburg, Pennsylvania, USA
One of the most interesting creators of contemporary TV genre shows, this producer-writer-director is best known for the immensely successful "Magnum, P.I." which propelled Tom Selleck to international stardom. Bellisario started his TV career after working 14 years as the creative director of an advertising agency. Breaking in as a director of TV commercials, he soon parlayed his extensive business background into an executive post at Universal TV. However more creative opportunities beckoned. By the mid-1970s, Bellisario was writing for crime dramas such as the acclaimed "Kojak," the short-lived "Delvecchio" starring Judd Hirsch, and beginning his fruitful association with the prolific writer-producer-director Glen A. Larson.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | No Score Yet | United We Fan | Self | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | JAG | Director | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 8% | Last Rites |
Producer, Screenwriter, Director |
$292.3K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three on a Match | Director | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Airwolf | Director | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Phantom in Space | Director | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Space | Director | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS |
Creator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
2003-2024 |
| 57% | 75% | Quantum Leap |
Creator, Executive Producer |
2022-2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG |
Unknown (Guest Star), Writer, Executive Producer, Director |
1995-2005 |
| 21% | No Score Yet | First Monday |
Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
2002 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | Quantum Leap |
Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
1989-1993 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. |
Writer, Creator, Executive Producer, Director |
1980-1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Airwolf |
Director, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer |
1984-1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quincy, M.E. | Executive Producer | 1979 |
| 43% | 81% | Battlestar Galactica |
Director, Writer |
1978-1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Writer | 1977 |