Don Medford
Don Medford (actually Donald Muller, * November 26, 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, † December 12, 2012 in West Hills, California ) was an American television and film director.
Life
Medford came in 1946 from his native Detroit to New York City where he worked 1951-1953 in live shows like Tales of Tomorrow (35 episodes) or Medallion Theatre and then by the Director on two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents by the famous director to Hollywood came. Mainly for television active, Medford developed during the filming of various episodes of different series such as The Detectives (13 episodes under his direction between 1959 and 1962 ), The FBI To transform (32 episodes 1965-1974 ), Baretta (19 episodes in the 1970s ) or Dynasty ( 26 episodes in the 1980s ) the method, rotated by day scenes during post-production by " underdevelopment " to night scenes. He was due to this technique the nickname " Midnight Medford ".
For more television exposures included six episodes of The Fugitive, among other things, today attendance record -holding double episode at the end of the series, five episodes of the Twilight Zone and numerous other until 1989 produced series.
In addition to television films Medford also shot some movies, so the organization of the series to the part played by Sidney Poitier colored policemen " Virgil Tibbs " and the Western Euro Quietly blows the wind of death.