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Jack Bender

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

Highest rated movies

17% 41% $1,000,000 Duck

Filmography

Movies

Credit
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 40% It Came From the Sky Director - 1999
No Score Yet 40% Tempest Director - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tempest Producer,
Executive Producer,
Director
- 1998
No Score Yet 48% Killing Mr. Griffin Director - 1997
No Score Yet 83% A Call to Remember Director,
Executive Producer
- 1997
No Score Yet 70% Friends 'Til the End Director - 1997
No Score Yet 57% Sweet Dreams Director - 1996
No Score Yet 69% 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 50% 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% 40% 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 100% Letting Go Director - 1985
No Score Yet 69% The Midnight Hour Director - 1985
No Score Yet 43% 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 40% Savage Jerry (Character) - 1972
17% 41% $1,000,000 Duck Arvin Wadlow (Character) - 1971

TV

Credit
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