Deran Sarafian
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Deran Sarafian is an American film and television director and actor. He directed Death Warrant, Gunmen, and Terminal Velocity. He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.[1]
Life and career
Sarafian is the son of film director Richard C. Sarafian, and the nephew of director, screenwriter and producer Robert Altman. He is the brother of Ani Sarafian, Tedi Sarafian, Richard Sarafian, Jr. and Damon B. Sarafian. He has two children with ex-wife, actress Laurie Fortier.[2]
In 1983 Sarafian said he had spent the previous five years "ghost directing"; i.e., taking over films where the original director was unable to complete filming. These films included
After directing a number of genre movies in Spain and Italy, Sarafian entered into the mainstream by directing the
Sarafian has directed twenty-three episodes of the
Select filmography
Directing
- The Falling(1986)
- Interzone (1987)
- To Die For (1989)
- Death Warrant (1990)
- Back in the USSR (1992)
- Gunmen (1994)
- The Road Killers (1994)
- Terminal Velocity (1994)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998) - Television | Season 2 Episode 18
- Road Rage (1999) – Television movie
- Trapped (2001) – Television
- House MD (2004) – Television
- Lost (2006) – Television
- Fringe (2010) – Television
- The Cape (2011) – Television
- Nikita (2012) – Television
- Hemlock Grove (2013) – Television
- The Strain (2014) – Television
- Dominion (2015) – Television
- Game of Silence(2015) – Television
- Rosewood (2016) – Television
- Wisdom of the Crowd (2017) - Television | Season 1 Episode 5
- Blue Bloods (2018) - Television
- The Gifted(2018) - Television | Season 2 Episode 17
- Swamp Thing (2019) - Television
- Project Blue Book (2020) - Television
Acting
- 10 to Midnight (1983) as Dale Anders
- Interzone (1987)
- Zombie 3(1988)
- Gunmen (1994) as the Bishop
References
- Emmys.com. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
- ^ Brittany Frederick (April 19, 2013). "Laurie Fortier Makes Her Return With Netflix's 'Hemlock Grove'". Starpulse.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
- ^ London, Michael (14 August 1983). "EVEN FOR A 'GHOSTDIRECTOR,' THIS FILM WAS A NIGHTMARE". Los Angeles Times. p. u4.
- ^ The New York Times Archived February 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Deran Sarafian at IMDb
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