Bradley Buecker is an American television and film director, producer, and editor. He is well known for his work with Ryan Murphy and

Brad Falchuk Bradley Douglas Falchuk (born March 1, 1971) is an American television writer, director, and producer, best known for co-creating with Ryan Murphy the comedy-drama television series ''Glee'', the drama series ''Pose'', the horror comedy '' Screa ...

for their series ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Career

Buecker's first credited job in the entertainment industry was as an editor for the TV documentary ''Hollywood Remembers Dustin Hoffman''. He worked as an editor during 2002 on the

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reality series '' The Bachelor''. In 2005 he was hired as an editor on the FX series ''

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'', where he first worked for

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and Falchuk. He went on to edit the pilot episode of ''Glee'' for Murphy, Falchuk, and Ian Brennan and became a mainstay editor for the entire run of the series. During its run is when Buecker directed his first hour of television, with the episode "

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". He served as an executive producer and main director on the series' last season, directing the

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. Buecker was involved with the development of Falchuk/Murphy's ''

''. He served as editor of the

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, as well as a co-executive producer during the anthology series' first cycle, '' Murder House''. He helmed the series' first season finale, " Afterbirth". With the commencement of the second series, ''

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'', Buecker was promoted to executive producer, as well as serving as director for the premiere, "

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". He directed the 4th episode, "Haunted House", of Brennan, Murphy and Falchuk's Fox series '' Scream Queens'' and the 2nd episode of the 2nd series, Warts and All.

Filmography

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