Dean Parisot

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Dean Parisot
Born (1952-07-06) July 6, 1952 (age 72)
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(m. 1986;died 2010)
Children2

Aldo Luis "Dean" Parisot (born July 6, 1952) is an American film and television director.

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Among his television credits are episodes of Monk (including the two-hour pilot "Mr. Monk and the Candidate"), Northern Exposure and Curb Your Enthusiasm .

Biography

Parisot was born in Wilton, Connecticut, to Ellen James (née Lewis), a painter and art teacher, and Aldo Parisot, a Brazilian-born cellist and pedagogue. [1]

He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He took part in the Sundance Institute's June Lab.

In 2012, he was hired to direct the third installment of the Bill & Ted franchise. [2] The film, Bill & Ted Face the Music , was released on August 28, 2020. [3]

Parisot was married to film editor Sally Menke until her death in 2010; they had two children. [4] [5]

Awards

He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings , which was co-written by and starred comedian Steven Wright, with whom he shares the award.

Filmography

Short film

Feature film

YearTitleDistribution
1998 Home Fries Warner Bros.
1999 Galaxy Quest DreamWorks Pictures
2005 Fun with Dick and Jane Sony Pictures Releasing
2013 Red 2 Summit Entertainment
2020 Bill & Ted Face the Music United Artists Releasing

TV movies

YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer
1990 Framed YesNo
1995The Kathy & Mo Show: The Dark SideYesNo
The ConversationYesNo
1999 A.T.F. YesYes
2007Area 57YesYes
2009See Kate RunYesNo

TV series

YearTitleDirectorProducerNotes
1988–1990 Reading Rainbow YesNo5 episodes
1990Steven Wright: Wicker Chairs and GravityYesNoTV special;
Also writer
1991 Get a Life YesNo3 episodes
1992 Great Scott! YesNoEpisode "Book Crook"
1992–1993 Northern Exposure YesNo3 episodes
1993 Bakersfield P.D. YesYesDirected 3 episodes
1995 Under Suspicion YesNoEpisode "Kinky Murder"
The Marshal YesNo4 episodes
ER YesNoEpisode "What Life?"
1998 L.A. Doctors YesNoEpisode "Under the Radar"
2001 The Job YesNoEpisode "Pilot"
Curb Your Enthusiasm YesNoEpisode "Shaq"
2002 The Tick YesNoEpisode "Arthur, Interrupted"
2002–2009 Monk YesNoEpisodes "Mr. Monk and the Candidate" and
"Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu"
2010The Deep EndYesNoUnaired pilot
2010–2011 The Good Wife YesNoEpisodes "Double Jeopardy" and "Affairs of State"
2011 Modern Family YesNoEpisode "Regrets Only"
2012–2015 Justified YesNoEpisodes "The Devil You Know", "Slaughterhouse",
"Good Intentions" and "Cash Game"
2015 Masters of Sex YesNoEpisode "Three's a Crowd"
2015–2016 Grace and Frankie YesNoEpisodes "The Vows" and "The Wish"
2016 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency YesExecutiveDirected episodes "Horizons" and "Lost & Found"
2017 Santa Clarita Diet YesNoEpisode "Baka, Bile and Baseball Bats"
2018–2019 Good Girls YesExecutiveDirected 4 episodes

References

  1. "Cello Teacher With a License to Dazzle". The New York Times . April 17, 2009.
  2. Brodesser, Claude (August 10, 2012). "Bill & Ted May Ride Again for a Third Film". Vulture. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
  3. Strauss, Matthew (March 20, 2019). "Bill & Ted 3 Gets 2020 Release Date". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
  4. "Wedding announcement in New York Times". The New York Times . August 10, 1986. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
  5. "ELLEN LEWIS BETROTHED; Yale Fine Arts Student to Be Bride of Aldo Parisott". The New York Times . June 10, 2012. Retrieved July 26, 2013.