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Brent Carpenter | |
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| Occupation | Television cinematographer, director, editor and producer |
| Years active | 1976, 1988–present |
Brent Carpenter is an American television director, editor, cinematographer and producer.
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Brent Carpenter | |
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| Occupation | Television cinematographer, director, editor and producer |
| Years active | 1976, 1988–present |
Brent Carpenter is an American television director, editor, cinematographer and producer.
As an editor he worked on the television series Empty Nest , The Ben Stiller Show , Whose Line Is It Anyway? , Sessions and working on number of stand-up comedy specials starring Jay Leno, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Kathy Griffin, Paula Poundstone and Kevin Nealon.
His directing credits include sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show , Caroline in the City , Greg the Bunny , Oliver Beene , True Jackson, VP , Crash & Bernstein. He's directed a number of live television specials which include all of the Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band tours since 2003, a number of Comedy Central specials, The Grammy Pre Telecast and several PBS music specials. In 1976, he appeared as an extra in the film A Star Is Born before pursuing a behind the camera career.
In 1997, Carpenter received a Grammy nomination as producer and Primetime Emmy nomination for editing the Great Performances episode "Robert Altman's Jazz '34" nominated with Dylan Tichenor. [1] As well as directing music videos for Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young and Cledus T. Judd.
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