Rick Wallace
Rick Wallace has been a prolific television producer and director since the 1980s. He won multiple Emmy Awards for the dramatic series "L.A. Law," and since the late 2000s has enjoyed a lengthy connection to the acclaimed crime drama "The Closer." Wallace's career began as an assistant director on features, including the heavily-influential "Halloween" helmed by John Carpenter and released in 1978. By the beginning of the '80s, he was serving as first assistant director on "Hill Street Blues," one of the most beloved dramas of all time, and was manning the lead helmer's chair by '83 (one of the many years that the show won a Directors Guild of America prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series). Shortly after "Hill Street Blues" ended its broadcast run, Wallace was working behind the scenes of "L.A. Law," and continued on the show through the 1990s. During the late '80s, he also produced and directed the pilot episode of the popular "Doogie Howser, M.D.." The '90s and '00s brought helming work in series whose genres included legal, action-adventure, and crime, but with regards to Wallace's producing work, that slowed until the mid-'00s, at which point he became involved with a slew of new shows. Among them was the political drama "Commander in Chief" and the more successful "The Closer," which stars Kyra Sedgwick as a homicide detective who specializes in thinking outside the box.
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Rick Wallace
Filmography
Movies
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88% |
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Double Down South | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trial of Ben Barry | Mr. Palmer (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dad, the Angel & Me | Director | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Father's Homecoming | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Acceptable Risks | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | California Girls | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Time to Live | Director | - | 1985 |
96% |
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Halloween | Assistant Director | $47.5M | 1978 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 75% | Major Crimes | Director | 2012-2016 |
68% | 78% | The Client List | Director | 2013 |
83% | 84% | The Closer | Director | 2005-2011 |
22% | No Score Yet | Raising the Bar | Director | 2008 |
69% | No Score Yet | Easy Money | Director | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women's Murder Club | Director | 2007 |
56% | No Score Yet | Men in Trees | Director | 2006-2007 |
82% | No Score Yet | Commander in Chief | Director | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Director | 2005 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Director | 2003-2005 |
39% | No Score Yet | Blind Justice | Director | 2005 |
83% | 95% | NYPD Blue | Director | 1994 2001 2003-2005 |
73% | No Score Yet | life as we know it | Director | 2004 |
78% | 70% | Smallville | Director | 2002-2003 |
54% | No Score Yet | Haunted | Director | 2002 |
64% | No Score Yet | Philly |
Executive Producer, Director |
2001-2002 |
20% | No Score Yet | City of Angels | Director | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 95% | The Pretender | Executive Producer | 1996-2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Martial Law | Director | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nash Bridges | Director | 1997 |
95% | No Score Yet | Karen Sisco | Director |