Jack Bender
Highest Rated: 19% Child's Play 3 (1991)
Lowest Rated: 17% $1,000,000 Duck (1971)
Birthday: Sep 25, 1949
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Though he would eventually become an extremely prosperous prime-time producer and director, Jack Bender began his career in the early 1970s as an actor. Small contributions to eternally celebrated television staples such as "All in the Family" and "Mary Tyler Moore" garnered him enough attention to break into directing by the end of the decade. He cut his teeth at the helm of 11 episodes of the domestically chaotic family sitcom "Eight is Enough" and immediately came into stints on such sweepingly earnest TV sagas as "Fame" and "Falcon Crest." By '79, his resume was impressive enough to land a job directing and writing eight episodes of the sophisticated legal drama "The Paper Chase," working with the legendary John Houseman. Bender stayed busy in the '80s directing 10 telepics until his first shot at a high-profile feature film came with the 1991 killer-doll shocker
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Jack Bender
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rewind | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The David Cassidy Story | Director | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Little Assassin | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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It Came From the Sky | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Tempest | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tempest |
Producer, Executive Producer, Director |
- | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Killing Mr. Griffin | Director | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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A Call to Remember |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Friends 'Til the End | Director | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Sweet Dreams | Director | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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A Face to Die For | Director | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lone Justice 3 | Director | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nothing Lasts Forever | Director | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lone Justice II | Director | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Family Album | Director | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Armed and Innocent | Director | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Can Be Murder | Director | - | 1992 |
19% |
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Child's Play 3 | Director | $13.5M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Perfect Tribute | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story | Director | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Brother's Wife | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Side by Side | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tricks of the Trade | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jack and Mike | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Letting Go | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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The Midnight Hour | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Deadly Messages | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shattered Vows | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Kinds of Love | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Love With an Older Woman | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Target Risk | Joe Cordova (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Savage | Jerry (Character) | - | 1972 |
17% |
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$1,000,000 Duck | Arvin Wadlow (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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96% | 82% | From |
Executive Producer, Director |
2023-2024 |
91% | 82% | The Outsider | Executive Producer | 2020 |
91% | 75% | Mr. Mercedes |
Director, Producer |
2018-2019 |
89% | 85% | Game of Thrones | Director | 2016 |
68% | 45% | Under the Dome | Director | 2013-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rewind | Director | 2013 |
81% | 76% | Alphas | Director | 2011 |
86% | 90% | Lost |
Executive Producer, Director |
2004-2010 |
68% | No Score Yet | Dirty Sexy Money | Director | 2007 |
92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Director | 2001-2002 2006 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Carnivàle | Director | 2003 2005 |
86% | 88% | Alias | Director | 2001-2004 |
27% | No Score Yet | Presidio Med | Director | 2003 |
18% | No Score Yet | girls club | Executive Producer | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judging Amy | Director | 1999-2001 |
83% | No Score Yet | That's Life | Director | 2000-2001 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Felicity | Director | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 91% | Northern Exposure | Director | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Director | 1982-1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eight Is Enough | Director | 1979-1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Chase | Director | 1979 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Wolpert (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bob Newhart Show | Paul Sanders (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Michael Lee (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Room 222 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970-1971 |
No Score Yet | 89% | All in the Family | Paul Goodrow (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Jeff Dalton (Guest Star) | 1971 |