Dennie Gordon

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Dennie Gordon
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Dennie Gordon on set
Born
Education Gustavus Adolphus College (BA)
Yale University (MFA)
Occupation(s)Film director, television director
Years active1994–present

Dennie Gordon is an American film and television director. Her directorial television credits include Party of Five , Sports Night , Ally McBeal , The Practice , Grounded for Life , The Loop , White Collar , Burn Notice , Hell on Wheels , Waco , The Office and other series. She has also directed the feature films Joe Dirt , New York Minute and What a Girl Wants .

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In 2000, Gordon won the DGA Award for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety for episode of the HBO series, Tracey Takes On... starring Tracey Ullman. [1] [2] She is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and the Yale School of Drama. [3] [4]

Filmography

Television
YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer
EpisodesNotes
1995 Picket Fences YesNo
  • "Witness for the Prosecution"
1996 Chicago Hope YesNo
  • "Life Lines"
Relativity YesNo
  • "No Job Too Small"
1996-1997 Party of Five YesNo
  • "Hitting Bottom"
  • "Christmas"
  • "Deal with It"
1997 Michael Hayes YesNo
  • "Radio Killer"
Nash Bridges YesNo
  • "Sniper"
1998 Dawson's Creek YesNo
  • "Crossroads"
1999 Tracey Takes On... YesNo
  • "End of the World"
  • "Books", "Scandal"
  • "Hair"
  • "Drugs"
  • "Dating"
Snoops YesNo
  • "Bedfellas"
1998-1999 Sports Night YesNo
  • "A Girl Named Pixley"
  • "The Reunion"
  • "Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks"
  • "Shoe Money Tonight"
1997-2000 Ally McBeal YesNo
  • "Out in the Cold"
  • "Love Unlimited"
  • "Theme of Life"
  • "The Kiss"
1999-2000 Jack & Jill YesNo
  • "The #@$%!*& Future"
  • "Animal Planet: Part 1"
  • "Not Just a River in Egypt"
2001 DAG YesNo
  • "Guns and Roses"
  • "Prom"
2002 Glory Days YesNo
  • "Pilot"
2001-2002 Grounded for Life YesNo
  • "Dust in the Wind"
  • "Safety Dance"
  • "Take It to the Limit"
  • "We Are Family"
  • "Don't Let Me Download"
  • "Like a Virgin"
2005 Beautiful People YesNo
  • "Point and Shoot"
  • "Pilot"
Everybody Hates Chris YesNo
  • "Everybody Hates Christmas"
Kitchen Confidential YesNo
  • "Rabbit Test"
2006 The Office YesNo
  • "Boys and Girls"
  • "The Secret"
What About Brian YesNo
  • "What About Secrets..."
2007 30 Rock YesNo
  • "The Fighting Irish"
The Wedding Bells YesNo
  • "Partly Cloudy, with a Chance of Disaster"
2006-2007 The Loop YesNo
  • "Fatty"
  • "Yeah, Presents"
  • "The Phantom"
  • "The Year of the Dog"
2007 12 Miles of Bad Road YesNo
  • "Collateral Verbiage"
2008 Samantha Who? YesNo
  • "The Birthday"
2009 The Ex List YesNo
  • "The Other Foot"
  • "Daphne's Idealized Wedding"
2010 The Deep End YesNo
  • "An Innocent Man"
True Jackson, VP YesNo
  • "True Date"
Notes from the Underbelly YesNo
  • "The Weekend"
The Good Guys YesNo
  • "Silvio's Way"
The Glades YesNo
  • "Breaking 80"
Hellcats YesNo
  • "Think Twice Before You Go"
2011 The Cape YesNo
  • "Scales"
2009-2011 Royal Pains YesNo
  • "A History of Violins"
  • "If I Were a Sick Man"
2011 Outsourced YesNo
  • "Take This Punjab and Shove It"
2009-2011 White Collar YesNo
  • "Dentist of Detroit"
  • "Vital Signs"
  • "Threads"
2011 Suits YesNo
  • "Dirty Little Secrets"
2009-2013 Burn Notice YesNo
  • "Brother in Arms"
  • "Under the Gun"
  • "Eyes Open"
  • "Hard Times"
  • "Fast Friends"
  • "Good Intentions"
  • "End Run"
  • "Sins of Omission"
[8]
2014 Rectify YesNo
  • "Sleeping Giants"
2013-2014 Hell on Wheels YesNo
  • "Reckoning"
  • "Chicken Hill"
  • "Range War"
2015 12 Monkeys YesNo
  • "Paradox"
Grace and Frankie YesNo
  • "The Sex"
Under the Dome YesNo
  • "Legacy"
2014-2015 Madam Secretary YesNo
  • "Lights Out"
  • "The Rusalka"
  • "The Necessary Art"
  • "Need to Know"
2016 Bloodline YesNo
  • "Part 18"
Feed the Beast YesNo
  • "In Lies the Truth"
  • "Tabula Rasa"
2014-2016 Kingdom YesNo
  • "Cut Man"
  • "Help Wanted"
  • "The Gentle Slope"
  • "Animator/Annihilator"
[8]
2016 Empire YesNo
  • "The Unkindest Cut"
2017 Legion YesNo
  • "Chapter 7"
[9]
2015-2017 Power YesNo
  • "New Man"
  • "You're Not the Man"
2018 Waco YesNo
  • "Stalling for Time"
  • "Of Milk and Men"
[8]
Goliath YesYes
  • "Tongue Tied"
  • "Who's Gabriel"
  • "Fresh Flowers"
  • "Alo"
[8]
2019 Jack Ryan YesYes
  • "Persona Non Grata"
  • "Dios y Federación"
  • "Blue Gold"
[8]
2020 AJ and the Queen YesNo
  • "Fort Worth"
Hunters YesNo
  • "At Night, All Birds Are Black"
[9]
2020-2023 Warrior YesNo
  • "Enter the Dragon"
  • "Man on the Wall"
  • "Gotta Be Crooked Along in a Crooked World"
  • "You Know When You're Losing a Fight"
[8]
2021 For All Mankind YesNo
  • "Don't Be Cruel"
  • "And Here's to You"
2022 Last Light YesNo
  • "The Dawning"
  • "Twilight"
  • "Darkness Falls"
  • "Dead of Night"
  • "Illumination"
From Scratch YesNo
  • "Bitter Almonds"
  • "Bread and Brine"
  • "Heirlooms"
2024 Halo YesNo
  • "Thermopylae"
  • "Halo"

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