Leslie Libman

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Leslie Libman
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Years active1976-present

Leslie Libman is an American television director. She also directed commercials and music videos.

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Television work

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).

Other work

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]

Filmography

Television

Director

YearShowSeasonEpisode titleEpisodeNotes
2021 The Resident 4"Home Before Dark"62
2017
Britney Ever After Television movie
2017 NCIS 15"The Numerical Limit"19
2014 NCIS 12"So It Goes"3
11"Bulletproof"15
2012 NCIS 10"Shell Shock (Part 1)"6
9"Secrets"15
"A Desperate Man"13
2011 NCIS 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
The Extreme Team Television movie
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"3Co-directed with Larry Williams
Brave New World Television movie
Co-directed with Larry Williams
Homicide: Life on the Street 6"Closet Cases"9Co-directed with Larry Williams
1997 Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing Television movie
Co-directed with Larry Williams
Homicide: Life on the Street 5"Partners and Other Strangers"21Co-directed with Larry Williams
1996 Homicide: Life on the Street 4"Full Moon"17Co-directed with Larry Williams
Out of Order1"Strange Habit"Co-directed with Larry Williams
"Stable for Transfer"Co-directed with Larry Williams
"Refracted"Co-directed with Larry Williams
"Familiar Bonds"Co-directed with Larry Williams
"Hey Joey"Co-directed with Larry Williams
"Squids"Co-directed with Larry Williams

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