Michael Fields | |
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Occupation(s) | Film director, television director and television producer |
Years active | 1979–present |
Michael David Fields is an American film and television director.
He has directed episodes of Veronica Mars , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Law & Order: Criminal Intent , Third Watch , Gossip Girl , Homicide: Life on the Street , Sex and the City , Roswell , Melrose Place , and iZombie [1] , among other series. [2]
He also wrote and directed the 1985 television adaptation of Noon Wine for the PBS anthology series American Playhouse . In 1990, he directed his first and only theatrical film Bright Angel .
Fields is a graduate of Wesleyan University. [3]
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