Tim Hunter (director)

Tim Hunter
Born	(1947-06-15) June 15, 1947 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University (1968)
Occupation(s)	Television and film director
Years active	1979–present
Known for	River's Edge, Carnivàle, Mad Men, Twin Peaks
Parent	Ian McLellan Hunter

Tim Hunter (born June 15, 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American television and film director.

Career

Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series including Breaking Bad, Carnivàle, Chicago Hope, Crossing Jordan, Deadwood, Falcon Crest, Homicide: Life on the Street, House, Law & Order, Lie to Me, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, Glee, Revenge, Pretty Little Liars and American Horror Story. During the early to mid-1980s, Hunter directed several feature films, including 1986's River's Edge, which won that year's award for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.

Critical reception

Janet Maslin made the following comments about Hunter's work on the films River's Edge and Tex:

As he demonstrated in Tex, Mr. Hunter has an extraordinarily clear understanding of teen-age characters, especially those who must find their own paths without much parental supervision. But the S. E. Hinton story for that film is a great deal more innocent than this one, and a lot more easily understood. While Mr. Hunter retains his ear for adolescent dialogue (the screenplay is by Neal Jimenez) and his eye for the aimless, restless behavior of these characters, neither he nor we can easily make the necessary leap to understand their casualness about Samson's crime. That Mr. Hunter is brave enough to avoid easy moralizing and easy explanations finally makes his film harder to fathom.

Personal life

Hunter was born in Los Angeles, the son of British screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1968.

In 1993, he refused to cede his late father's Academy Award for the 1953 screenplay to Roman Holiday. Hunter's father had received credit for writing Roman Holiday following an arrangement with the true writer, Dalton Trumbo, who was prevented from selling his work due to the Hollywood blacklist. Subsequently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Trumbo's widow a compensatory award.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1979	Over the Edge	Writer
1982	Tex	Director and writer
1985	Sylvester	Director
1986	River's Edge	Director
1989	Paint It Black	Director
1993	The Saint of Fort Washington	Director
1996	The Colony	Director
	The People Next Door	Director
1997	The Maker	Director
1998	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples	Director, segment "Aart and Johtje Vos"
	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families	Director, segment "Malka Csizmadia"
1999	Mean Streak	Director
2001	Anatomy of a Hate Crime	Director
2002	Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story	Director
2003	The Failures	Director
2004	Control	Director
2006	The Far Side of Jericho	Director
2007	Kings of South Beach	Director
2018	Looking Glass	Director
2020	Smiley Face Killers	Director

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1988-1990	Falcon Crest	Director, 2 episodes
1990-1991	Twin Peaks	Director, 3 episodes
1990	Beverly Hills, 90210	Director, episode "Class of Beverly Hills"
1991-1993	Dark Justice	Director, 2 episodes
1991	Lies of the Twins	Director, television film
1991	Eerie, Indiana	Director, 2 episodes
1993	Bakersfield P.D.	Director, episode "There Goes the Neighborhood"
1994	Chicago Hope	Director, episode "You Gotta Have Heart"
1994-1995	Homicide: Life on the Street	Director, 4 episodes
1995	Central Park West	Director, episode "Days of Thunder"
	Fallen Angels	Director, episode "Fly Paper"
1997	Moloney	Director, episode "Misconduct"
1998	Michael Hayes	Director, episode "Vaughn Mower"
	Sins of the City	Director, episode "Honor Among Thieves"
	Four Corners	Director, 2 episodes
2000	Profiler	Director, episode "Clean Sweep"
	Soul Food	Director, episode "Claiming"
2001	Dead Last	Director, episode "To Serve, with Love"
2003	Out of Order	Director, 5 episodes
2003-2005	Crossing Jordan	Director, 2 episodes
	Carnivàle	Director, 2 episodes
2004	The 4400	Director, episode "White Light"
	CSI: NY	Director, episode "Creatures of the Night"
2004-2006	Cold Case	Director, 3 episodes
2005	House	Director, episode "Mob Rules"
	Line of Fire	Director, episode "Born to Run"
2006	South Beach	Director, episode "Who Do You Trust"
	Deadwood	Director, episode "A Rich Find"
2006-2008	Law & Order	Director, 2 episodes
2007-2008	Mad Men	Director, 6 episodes
2008	Breaking Bad	Director, episode "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal"
	Army Wives	Director, episode "Duplicity"
	Sons of Anarchy	Director, episode "Giving Back"
	Brotherhood	Director, episode "All the Interim is like a Phantasma..."
2008-2009	Dexter	Director, 2 episodes
2009	Lie to Me	Director, episode "Love Always"
2009-2010	Nip/Tuck	Director, 3 episodes
2010	Saving Grace	Director, episode "Let’s Talk"
	The Glades	Director, episode "The Girlfriend Experience"
	Caprica	Director, episode "Things We Lock Away"
	Outlaw	Director, episode "In Re: Kelvin Jones"
2011	Glee	Director, episode "Rumours"
	American Horror Story	Director, episode "Open House"
2011-2012	Revenge	Director, 2 episodes
2011-2013	Necessary Roughness	Director, 3 episodes
2012	Breakout Kings	Director, episode "Round Two"
	Pretty Little Liars	Director, episode "This is a Dark Ride"
2013	Cult	Director, episode "The Kiss"
2013-2014	Hannibal	Director, 4 episodes
2014	Intelligence	Director, episode "The Grey Hat"
	The Lottery	Director, episode "Genie"
	Gotham	Director, episode "Viper"
2015	Powers	Director, episode "Aha Shake Heartbreak"
	The Messengers	Director, episode "Why We Fight"
	Scream	Director, 2 episodes
	Wayward Pines	Director, 2 episodes
	Blood & Oil	Director, episode "The Art of the Deal"
2016	The Blacklist	Director, episode "Lady Ambrosia"
	Underground	Director, 2 episodes
	Frequency	Director, episode "Break, Break, Break"
2016-2018	Bosch	Director, 2 episodes
2017	Hand of God	Director, episode "When You Pull the Trigger"
2018	Riverdale	Director, episode "Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle"
2020	neXt	Director, episodes "file #3"/"file #6"

External links

• Tim Hunter at IMDb