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Stephen A Shill (born 1957) is a British television and film director, actor, screenwriter and television producer.
Early life
Shill was born in 1957 in Buckinghamshire, England. He attended Keswick Grammar School in
Keswick, Cumbria, England in the 1970s.
Career
He studied Fine Art at
Leeds University
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, ...
, was a member of
Impact Theatre Co-operative, and, after they disbanded, made theatre work under his own name.
After completing the BBC Drama Director's Course he began his television directing career with episodes of ''
EastEnders
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'' and ''
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'' for the
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. Shill created the idea for Granada TV's ''Ted and Alice'' starring
Dawn French
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.
He moved to the United States and worked on many successful shows produced by
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HBO
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, including ''
The Sopranos
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'', ''
The Wire
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'', ''
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'', ''
Carnivàle'', ''
Deadwood'' and ''
Big Love
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''.
He directed the pilot episode of
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's ''
The Tudors
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'' and served as a regular director and executive producer throughout the first
season
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. He has also directed episodes of Showtime's ''
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'' and ''
Dexter''. Shill directed all eight episodes of
Spike TV
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's ''
The Kill Point
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''
mini-series and also served as an executive producer. Shill directed and co-executive produced the 2008 ''
Knight Rider
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'' TV movie that served as a pilot for the
2008 follow-up series.
Shill has also directed numerous episodes of memorable network programs, including three programs of the ''
Law & Order
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'' series, ''
Night Stalker'', ''
Invasion
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'', ''
Commander in Chief'', ''
Dragnet'', ''
ER'' and ''
The West Wing
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''.
Shill joined the HBO western drama ''Deadwood'' as a director for the first season in 2004. The series was created by
David Milch
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and focused on a growing town in the American West. Shill directed the episode "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking".
He returned as a director for the second season in 2005 and also wrote an episode. Shill directed the episode "New Money"
and wrote and directed the episode "Something Very Expensive".
Shill and the writing staff were nominated for a
Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the
February 2006 ceremony for their work on the second season.
Shill directed the theatrical feature ''
Obsessed'' starring
Idris Elba
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, and
Ali Larter
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. The film opened at number one in the United States of America in April 2009, taking almost $70m at the box office and becoming
Screen Gems
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' second biggest opening weekend in their history.
In 2010, Shill directed the miniseries
Ben Hur and the first-season episode "Painkiller" for the legal drama series ''
The Good Wife
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''.
That same year, he received an ''
Emmy Award
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'' for
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
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for ''
Dexter:
The Getaway''.
Shill had acting roles in the films ''
The Last Temptation of Christ'', ''The Missing Reel'', ''
Kinsey'' and ''
Being Human''.
References
External links
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Alumni of the University of Leeds
Place of birth missing (living people)
English television directors
Living people
People educated at Keswick School
English male film actors
English male television actors
1957 births