Leslie Libman | |
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Occupation | Director |
Years active | 1976-present |
Leslie Libman is an American television director. She also directed commercials and music videos.
Since 1995 she works primarily as a TV director on a number of television series, most notably directing multiple episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street , The 4400 and NCIS . Other series include The Wire , Oz and The Shield . For MTV she created and directed with her late husband, Larry Williams, Out of Order, a series of six original short films.
She co-directed with Larry Williams two television movies - in 1997 the HBO TV movie Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (starring Peter Gallagher and Art Malik) and the 1998 TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (again starring Gallagher with Leonard Nimoy) for the USA Network.
In 2003 she directed the ABC TV movie The Extreme Team (aka The X-Team).
Before moving to television work, Libman and Williams formed a directing team creating commercials [1] (among others for American Express, Christian Dior, McDonald's, Panasonic and Sony) and music clips [2] (Boy George, The Church, Al Green, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers and more). Without Williams, she directed music videos for The Bangles, Bee Gees, Chicago, Michael McDonald, Roy Orbison, and Rod Stewart and others. [2]
TV series
Year | Title | Season | Episode title | Episode | Notes |
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2021 | The Resident | 4 | "Home Before Dark" | 62 | |
2017 | NCIS | 15 | "The Numerical Limit" | 19 | |
2014 | 12 | "So It Goes" | 3 | ||
11 | "Bulletproof" | 15 | |||
2012 | 10 | "Shell Shock (Part 1)" | 6 | ||
9 | "Secrets" | 15 | |||
"A Desperate Man" | 13 | ||||
2011 | 9 | "Devil's Triangle" | 7 | ||
2010 | FlashForward | 1 | "The Negotiation" | 20 | |
"Course Correction" | 19 | ||||
NCIS | 8 | "Short Fuse" | 3 | ||
2009 | NCIS: Los Angeles | 1 | "Keepin' It Real" | 6 | |
NCIS | 7 | "Good Cop, Bad Cop" | 4 | ||
6 | "Caged" | 12 | |||
In Plain Sight | 2 | "Aguna Matatala" | 5 | ||
2008 | Knight Rider | 1 | "Knight of the Living Dead" | 6 | |
Numb3rs | 4 | "Atomic No. 33" | 16 | ||
The L Word | 5 | "Lay Down the Law" | 8 | ||
2007 | Numb3rs | 3 | "Take Out" | 14 | |
The 4400 | 4 | "The Marked" | 6 | ||
Medium | 3 | "The Whole Truth" | 8 | ||
2006 | Sleeper Cell | 2 | "School" | 6 | |
Brotherhood | 1 | "Samyutta 11:10" | 6 | ||
NCIS | 3 | "Untouchable" | 20 | ||
"Deception" | 13 | ||||
2005 | Sleeper Cell | 1 | "Family" | 6 | |
The 4400 | 2 | "Carrier" | 7 | ||
"Wake-Up Call" | 1 | ||||
Entourage | 2 | "An Offer Refused" | 4 | ||
2004 | The Wire | 3 | "Homecoming" | 6 | |
Keen Eddie | 1 | "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" | 13 | ||
Jake 2.0 | 1 | "Dead Man Walking" | 15 | ||
2003 | The Practice | 8 | "The Chosen" | 2 | |
2002 | Fastlane | 1 | "Get Your Mack On" | 9 | |
John Doe | 1 | "Manifest Destiny" | 9 | ||
Without a Trace | 1 | "Snatch Back" | 7 | ||
Crossing Jordan | 2 | "Payback" | 4 | ||
American Dreams | Unknown episode | ||||
MDs | Unknown episode | ||||
The Shield | 1 | "Throwaway" | 9 | ||
2001 | Oz | 4 | "Blizzard of '01" | 13 | |
Gideon's Crossing | 1 | "Prodigal Dad" | 15 | ||
"Hinkytown" | 11 | ||||
The Division | 1 | "Seduced and Abandoned" | 3 | ||
2000 | The Beat | Unknown episode | |||
1998 | Homicide: Life on the Street | 7 | "Just an Old Fashioned Love Song" | 3 | Co-directed with Larry Williams |
6 | "Closet Cases" | 9 | |||
1997 | 5 | "Partners and Other Strangers" | 21 | ||
1996 | 4 | "Full Moon" | 17 | ||
Out of Order | 1 | "Strange Habit" | |||
"Stable for Transfer" | |||||
"Refracted" | |||||
"Familiar Bonds" | |||||
"Hey Joey" | |||||
"Squids" | |||||
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