Robert Lieberman (born July 16, 1947) is an American motion picture and television director.

Personal life

Lieberman was married from June 27, 1990 to June 7, 2001 to actress

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; the divorced couple has two children, Nicholas Morgan and Joseph Marlon. He also has two children, Erin and Lorne Lieberman, from his first marriage. Lieberman married former model Victoria Peters in 2010.

Career

Lieberman was the founder of the commercial production company Harmony Pictures and has, himself, directed close to two thousand commercials. He has received many

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nominations and has won 29. Lieberman in 1980 was the first winner of the

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for Best Commercial Director. He was nominated another three times for the

and in 1996 won his second award. He also directed one film with

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Speedy Singhs ''Breakaway'' is a 2011 Canadian sports-comedy film directed by Robert Lieberman, and produced by Akshay Kumar and Paul Gross. The film stars Vinay Virmani in his debut performance opposite Camilla Belle, with Rob Lowe, Russell Peters and Anupa ...

starring Camilla Belle and Vinay Virmani.Speedy Singhs as Directed

Filmography

Director

* '' Fighting Back'' (1980) * '' Will: G. Gordon Liddy'' (1982) * '' Table for Five'' (1983) * ''To Save a Child'' (1991) * '' All I Want for Christmas'' (1991) * ''

Fire in the Sky ''Fire in the Sky'' is a 1993 American biopic science fiction mystery film directed by Robert Lieberman and adapted by Tracy Tormé. It is based on Travis Walton's book ''The Walton Experience'', which describes an extraterrestrial abduction ...

'' (1993) * '' D3: The Mighty Ducks'' (1996) * ''

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'' (1996) * '' NetForce'' (1999) * ''Red Skies'' (2002) * ''

Second String ''Second String'' is a direct-to-TV film from 2002 about the Buffalo Bills football team who find its first string (led by real-life Bills quarterback Doug Flutie, who had left the team by the time the film was released) out for a month after a f ...

'' (2002) * ''The Dead Zone'' (2002) * ''

Final Days of Planet Earth ''Final Days of Planet Earth'' is a 2006 science fiction miniseries directed by Robert Lieberman and written by Roger Soffer. Starring Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, and Daryl Hannah, the movie was produced by RHI Entertainment for the Hallmark Ch ...

'' (2006) * '' The Stranger'' (2010) * ''

The Tortured ''The Tortured'' is a 2010 Canadian-American horror-thriller film directed by Robert Lieberman, written by Marek Posival, and starring Erika Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe, Fulvio Cecere, and Bill Moseley. Plot The film tells the story of a cou ...

'' (2010) * '' Breakaway'' (2011) Television: * ''

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'' (1978) * ''

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'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1989) * ''

The Young Riders ''The Young Riders'' is an American western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders (some of whom are young versions of legendary figures in Old West history) based at ...

'' (1989) * ''

Gabriel's Fire ''Gabriel's Fire'' is an American crime drama television series created by Donald R. Boyle, Coleman Luck and Jacqueline Zambrano that ran on ABC from September 12, 1990, to June 6, 1991, in the United States during the 1990–91 television seaso ...

'' (1990) * ''

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'' (1993) * ''

Harts of the West Harts of the West is a humorous contemporary western about a Chicago family moving to a run-down Nevada ranch. The series consisted of 15 hour-long episodes that aired on CBS Saturdays, 9:00 to 10:00 p.m., from September 1993 until June 1994. ...

'' (1993) * '' Under Suspicion'' (1994) * ''

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'' (1995) * '' Maloney'' (1996) * ''

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'' (1999) * ''

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'' (2000) * '' The Dead Zone'' (2002) * ''

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'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2006) * '' Brothers & Sisters'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2010–2011) * '' Haven'' (2010–2014) * ''

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'' (2011) * '' Eve of Destruction'' (2013) * ''

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'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2016) * '' Rogue'' (2016–2017)

Producer

* ''To Save a Child'' (1991) * ''Abandoned and Deceived'' (1995) * ''Rag and Bone'' (1997) * ''

'' (2007) Television: * ''

'' (1989) * ''

'' (1990) * ''

'' (1993) * ''Marilu'' (1994) * ''Under Suspicion'' (1994) * ''

'' (1995) * '' Moloney'' (1996) * ''

'' (2000) * '' The Dead Zone'' (2002) * ''

'' (2003) * '' The Casino'' (2004)

Writer

* '' The Casino'' (2004) * ''

'' (2005)

Notes

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lieberman, Robert 1947 births Living people American film directors Artists from Buffalo, New York American television directors 20th-century American Jews University at Buffalo alumni Advertising directors 21st-century American Jews