Michael Preece

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Michael Preece (born September 15, 1936)[1] is an American film and television director, script supervisor, producer, and actor best known for directing television series Dallas and Walker, Texas Ranger and films The Prize Fighter and Logan's War: Bound by Honor.

Early life

Preece was born in

Los Angeles, California[1] and graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School. His father was a salesman for a cigarette and cigar company,[2] and his mother, Thelma Preece, was the first female business agent in Hollywood and founder of the Script Clerks Guild which later became the Script Supervisor Local 871 IATSE.[3]

Career

While a freshman student at Santa Monica City College in the summer of 1955 in the early days of television Preece took on a job as a script supervisor. He worked as a script supervisor on such TV series as

Stingray (NBC TV series), B. J. and the Bear, Ace Crawford, Private Eye, Mike Hammer (1984 TV Series), Jake and the Fatman, The Young Riders, Flamingo Road and Renegade.[4]

Preece also directed such films as

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion (1994), Logan's War: Bound by Honor (1998) (for which he won a Lone Star Film & Television Award for Best TV Director), Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998),[7] and The President's Man (2000).[8]

Personal life

Preece currently resides in

Los Angeles, California.[9] In 1969 he married Evelyn Thomas (February 2, 1942 - March 26, 2017). He had four children from a previous marriage. His daughter Gretchen is married to singer-songwriter Randy Newman
.

Preece has spoken at Women in Film breakfast meetings.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Preece, Michael. []". virginia.edu.
  2. ^ "Michael Preece". michaelpreece.com. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  3. ^ Variety Staff. "Thelma McFate Preece". Variety.
  4. ^ "Preece, Michael".
  5. ^ "The Prize Fighter (1979)".
  6. ^ "Beretta's Island". columbu.com. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Dallas: War of the Ewings (1998)". tcm.com. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  8. ^ Hal Erickson (2016). "The President's Man (2000)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Michael Preece Biography ((?)-)". filmreference.com.
  10. ^ "Veteran director addresses Women in Film".

External links

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