External links
- Alrick Riley at IMDb
Alrick Riley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) London, England |
| Other names | Alrich Riley |
| Occupation(s) | Television director, writer, former child actor |
| Years active | 1975–present |
Alrick Riley (born 1964) is a BAFTA TV award-winning English television director and writer, and former child actor.
He is known for his work on the British series Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) and Hustle ; along with his more recent work on the American fairytale drama Once Upon a Time .
Riley was born in London, England. As a shy young child, his Jamaican parents "made" him go to an acting club to force him "out of himself". He began his acting career at eleven years old as a featured extra on the BBC TV comedy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , followed by appearances in series, such as: Johnny Jarvis and Me and My Girl , and the 1979 film Scum . [1]
After leaving high school, Riley knew he no longer wanted to act, but "definitely wanted to stay in the business." He and a friend bought an 8 mm camera, and Riley discovered a passion for direction. His mother was initially against his pursuit of directing: she favoured the theatre arts and was concerned he would not be a success pioneering to be a black television director. He attended West Midlands University [ citation needed ], before attending the National Film & Television School. Two short films he directed while at the school, Money Talk and Concrete Garden, went on to be screened at multiple international film festivals[ citation needed ]. Riley credits Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola as notable inspirations, but accredits his love of film to Charles Burnett. [2]
Riley has directed episodes of Playing the Field , Stanton Blues, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries , Hotel Babylon , Silent Witness , Boy Meets Girl , Ashes to Ashes , Bedlam , Spooks , Hustle , Hunted , Death in Paradise , Perception , Castle , NCIS , Legends , NCIS: New Orleans , The Walking Dead , Person of Interest , Tyrant and Once Upon a Time . [3]
Riley was one of the writers on the British sitcom Desmond's. [4]
Along with Eric Coulter and Harry Bradbeer, in 1999 Riley won a BAFTA TV Award for their work on the UK series The Cops . His winning of the prestigious honour marked the first time in the history of the assembly that a black man was recognised [ citation needed ].
| Year | Show | Season | Episode title | Episode | Credit |
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| 1998–2001 | Stanton Blues | 1 | N/A | 4 | Director |
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| 2009 | Boy Meets Girl | 1 | 1 | ||
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| 2011 | Bedlam | 1 | "Inmates" | 3 | |
| "Committed" | 5 | ||||
| "Burning Man" | 6 | ||||
| 2004–2011 | Spooks | 3 | N/A | 9 | |
| 10 | |||||
| 4 | 3 | ||||
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| 6 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | |||||
| 8 | 1 | ||||
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| 5 | |||||
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| 10 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | |||||
| 2005–2012 | Hustle | 2 | "The Lesson" | 3 | |
| "Missions" | 4 | ||||
| 4 | "Big Daddy Calling" | 6 | |||
| 8 | "Gold Finger" | 1 | |||
| "Ding Dong That's My Song" | 5 | ||||
| "The Con is Off" | 6 | ||||
| 2014 | Perception | 3 | "Bolero" | 7 | |
| "Prologue" | 8 | ||||
| Intelligence | 1 | "The Rescue" | 5 | ||
| "Size Matters" | 7 | ||||
| Graceland | 2 | "The Ends" | 8 | ||
| Castle | 7 | "Montreal" | 2 | ||
| "Once Upon a Time in the West" | 7 | ||||
| 2014–2016 | Once Upon a Time | 4 | "Breaking Glass" | 5 | |
| 5 | "The Broken Kingdom" | 4 | |||
| "Devil's Due" | 14 | ||||
| 6 | "Strange Case" | 4 | |||
| 2015 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | 15 | "Under My Skin" | 17 | |
| Revenge | 4 | "Retaliation" | 16 | ||
| Legends | 2 | "The Legends of Curtis Ballard" | 3 | ||
| "The Legend of Ilyana Zakayeva" | 4 | ||||
| 2015–2020 | NCIS | 12 | "Check" | 11 | |
| 13 | "Loose Cannons" | 16 | |||
| 14 | "Home of the Brave" | 7 | |||
| "Pandora's Box, Part 1" | 14 | ||||
| 15 | "Double Down" | 15 | |||
| "Handle with Care" | 16 | ||||
| 16 | "A Thousand Words" | 7 | |||
| "Mona Lisa" | 18 | ||||
| 17 | "Schooled" | 18 | |||
| 2015–2016 | NCIS: New Orleans | 1 | "You'll Do" | 21 | |
| 2 | "Means to an End" | 19 | |||
| Person of Interest | 4 | "Terra Incognita" | 20 | ||
| 5 | "A More Perfect Union" | 6 | |||
| 2016 | Wayward Pines | 2 | "Sound the Alarm" | ||
| Dead of Summer | 1 | "Home Sweet Home" | 9 | ||
| Tyrant | 3 | "Ask for the Earth" | 8 | ||
| 2016–2017 | The Walking Dead | 6 | "Twice as Far" | 14 | |
| 7 | "The Cell" | 3 | |||
| "Bury Me Here" | 13 | ||||
| 2017–2018 | Lucifer | 2 | "A Good Day to Die" | 13 | |
| "Let Pinhead Sing!" | 17 | ||||
| 2018 | Bull | 2 | "A Redemption" | 19 | |
| The Crossing | 1 | "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" | 7 | ||
| 2019 | How to Get Away with Murder | 5 | "Be the Martyr" | 11 | |
| 6 | "I Want to Be Free" | 8 | |||
| The Good Doctor | 2 | "Believe" | 16 | ||
| 3 | "SFAD" | 7 | |||
| 2019–2022 | S.W.A.T. | 2 | "Day of Dread" | 21 | |
| 3 | "Funny Money" | 48 | |||
| 5 | "Family" | 102 | |||
| 2019 | Blood & Treasure | 1 | "The Curse of Cleopatra, Parts I & II" | 1-2 | |
| "Code of the Hawaladar" | 3 | ||||
| 2020 | Unsaid Stories | 1 | "Generational" | 10 | |
| Bridgerton | 1 | "Oceans Apart" | 7 | ||
| "After The Rain" | 8 | ||||
| 2021 | Stephen | 1 | "Episode 1" | 1 | |
| "Episode 2" | 2 | ||||
| "Episode 3" | 3 | ||||
