Eric Laneuville

Eric Laneuville
Eric Laneuville
	Laneuville in 1989
Born	Eric Gerard Laneuville; July 14, 1952 (age 71); New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupations	Actor; director; producer;
Years active	1968–present

Eric Gerard Laneuville (born July 14, 1952) is an American television director, producer and actor. His first acting roles were in the science-fiction film The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston, and the ABC television series Room 222 (1970–1973). His role as Luther Hawkins in the television series St. Elsewhere is his best known role. He also starred in A Force of One (1979) playing Charlie, the adopted son of Chuck Norris's character. In more recent years, he frequently directs such one-hour dramas as Blue Bloods and NCIS: Los Angeles. He directed Body of Proof episode "Missing". He also appeared in Love at First Bite.

Career

Acting

Laneuville was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Mildred, a guidance counselor, and Alexander Laneuville.

Bye Bye Birdie, Annie Get Your Gun, and Oklahoma!. While taking drama courses at nearby Susan Miller Dorsey High School, he began acting professionally, co-starring as a troubled youth in an award-winning television movie and becoming a semi-regular cast member on Room 222, including one episode in which he appeared with his future Force of One co-star, Chuck Norris. He appeared in three episodes of Sanford and Son, as Esther's adopted son. In 1982, he landed the role of Luther Hawkins in the television series St. Elsewhere

. He stayed with the series until it ended in 1988.

As well as The Omega Man (1971), his other film appearances included roles in Black Belt Jones (1974), Death Wish (1974) opposite Charles Bronson, Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974), A Piece of the Action (1977), Love at First Bite (1979), A Force of One, (1979), The Baltimore Bullet (1980) and Back Roads (1981).

Directing

Laneuville began directing in 1984. His first directing assignments were for episodes of

Girlfriends, Everybody Hates Chris, Prison Break, Blue Bloods, Ghost Whisperer, Grimm (2012–14) and Tommy, Chicago Fire

.

In 1988, Laneuville became the first African-American television director to film in Russia, as he directed a two-part episode "Mission to Moscow" for the series,

Emmy for directing the episode "All God's Children" of the NBC series I'll Fly Away.^[2] He also directed the 2004 television film, America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story

.

As his directing career took off, Laneuville's acting career continued only sporadically, usually in small cameo roles. His most recent on-camera appearance was on October 3, 2014, in a guest role on "Blue Bloods" in an episode he also directed. Prior to that, he had appeared as Dr. Lamar in the TV series Scrubs. He also appeared in the Fear of a Black Hat (1994), a mockumentary parodying 1990s hip-hop culture.

Producer credits

Bull (executive producer)
413 Hope St. (executive producer)
Midnight Caller (producer)
Brand New Life
(supervising producer)
The Equalizer (2021 TV series) (executive producer)

References

^ "Eric Laneuville Biography (1952-)".
ISBN 978-0-345-45542-0
.

External links

Eric Laneuville at
IMDb

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Films directed by Eric Laneuville

The George McKenna Story (1986)

The Ernest Green Story (1993)

Someone She Knows (1994)

If Someone Had Known (1995)

Pandora's Clock (1996)

Born Into Exile (1997)

Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000)

America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003)

Critical Assembly (2003)

Naughty or Nice (2004)

The Client List (2010)

Awards for Eric Laneuville

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1950s

Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)

1960s

Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960)

George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961)

Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (1962)

Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963)

Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)

Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965)

Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966)

Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967)

Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968)

David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)

1970s

Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970)

Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971)

Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972)

Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973)

Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974)

Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975)

David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976)

David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977)

Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)

Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)

1980s

Roger Young for "Cop" (1980)

Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981)

Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982)

Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983)

Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984)

Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985)

Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986)

Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987)

Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988)

Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)

1990s

Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990)

Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991)

Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992)

Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993)

Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994)

Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)

Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996)

Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997)

Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Lost Israel, Part 2" (1998)

Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)

2000s

Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000)

Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001)

Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002)

Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003)

Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004)

J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005)

Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006)

Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007)

Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008)

Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)

2010s

Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010)

Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011)

Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012)

David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013)

Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014)

David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)

Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016)

Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017)

Stephen Daldry for "Paterfamilias" (2018)

Jason Bateman for "Reparations" (2019)

2020s

Andrij Parekh for "Hunting" (2020)

Jessica Hobbs for "War" (2021)

Hwang Dong-hyuk for "Red Light, Green Light" (2022)

Mark Mylod for "Connor's Wedding" (2023)

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
1971–2000

Daniel Petrie for "Hands of Love" (1971)

Robert Butler for "Dust Bowl Cousins" (1972)

Charles S. Dubin for "Knockover" (1973)

David Friedkin for "Cross Your Heart, Hope to Die" (1974)

James Cellan Jones for Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1975)

Glenn Jordan for "Rites of Friendship" (1976)

John Erman for "Second Hour" (1977)

Gene Reynolds for "Prisoner" (1978)

Roger Young for "Cop" (1979)

Roger Young for "Lou" (1980)

Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station" (1981)

David Anspaugh for "Personal Foul" (1982)

Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983)

Thomas Carter for "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall" (1984)

Will Mackenzie for "My Fair David" (1985)

Will Mackenzie for "Atomic Shakespeare" (1986)

Marshall Herskovitz for "Pilot" (thirtysomething) (1987)

Marshall Herskovitz for "Therapy" (1988)

Eric Laneuville for "I'm in the Nude" (1989)

Michael Zinberg for "Vietnam" (1990)

Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1991)

Rob Thompson for "Cicely" (1992)

Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (NYPD Blue) (1993)

Charles Haid for "Into That Good Night" (1994)

Christopher Chulack for "Hell and High Water" (1995)

Christopher Chulack for "Fear of Flying" (1996)

Barbara Kopple for "The Documentary" (1997)

Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1998)

David Chase for "The Sopranos" (1999)

Thomas Schlamme for "Noël" (2000)

2001–present

Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2001)

John Patterson for "Whitecaps" (2002)

Chris Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003)

Walter Hill for "Deadwood
" (2004)

Michael Apted for "The Stolen Eagle" (2005)

Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006)

Alan Taylor for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2007)

Daniel Attias for "Transitions" (2008)

Lesli Linka Glatter for "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" (2009)

Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2010)

Patty Jenkins for "Pilot" (The Killing) (2011)

Rian Johnson for "Fifty-One" (2012)

Vince Gilligan for "Felina" (2013)

Lesli Linka Glatter for "From A to B and Back Again" (2014)

David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)

Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016)

Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017)

Adam McKay for "Celebration" (2018)

Nicole Kassell for "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" (2019)

Lesli Linka Glatter for "Prisoners of War" (2020)

Mark Mylod for "All the Bells Say" (2021)

Sam Levinson for "Stand Still Like the Hummingbird" (2022)

Peter Hoar for "Long, Long Time" (2023)

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[1] "Eric Laneuville Biography (1952-)".

[2] ISBN 978-0-345-45542-0
.

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