Colin Bucksey

Colin M. Bucksey (* 1946 in Camberwell , London , England ) is a British - American film director , film producer and cameraman . Bucksey was involved in the international series Breaking Bad , Person of Interest and Fargo , among others .

Career

Bucksey first appeared in 1973 in the semi-documentary film A Bigger Splash about British artist David Hockney . He was one of the cinematographers involved alongside lead cinematographer Jack Hazan . The film addresses a difficult time in Hockney's life. The film title goes back to his painting A Bigger Splash . This was followed by further work behind the camera for three British films. In 1976, Bucksey first directed two episodes of the drama series Couples . It is about a marriage counselor who likes to rely on the support of her more experienced colleagues on her first job. The cases shown are based on real events. Further work for television followed.

In 1982 and 1983, Bucksey directed three episodes of the children's series Educating Marmalade about Marmalade Atkins, a girl so naughty that parents and social services want to shoot her into space. For this work he was nominated for a BAFTA TV award in the category “Best Children's Program” . From 1987 to 1989 Bucksey worked for the crime series Miami Vice with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas , which was also popular in Germany in the 1980s, as the police team "Sonny" Crockett and "Rico" Tubs. Numerous directing work for series and television films followed.

Bucksey directed the three-hour drama September, based on the novel by Rosamunde Pilcher , which was released in 1996 . The film is set in the Scottish highlands, where a privileged aristocratic family gives a party for the beautiful Pandora, played by Jacqueline Bisset , who hastily left her hometown under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago. Other leading roles are Mariel Hemingway , Edward Fox and Michael York . From 2005 to 2008 Bucksey directed seven episodes of the world-famous crime series Navy CIS , and from 2009 to 2012 four episodes of the crime drama television series Breaking Bad with Bryan Cranston in the lead role of lung cancer sufferer Walter White . In the USA this series is one of the most popular newly produced series. The internet was used more intensively in their marketing. Person of Interest was another crime series in which Bucksey was involved in 2011, as well as the drama series Revenge , in which he directed five episodes. The series focuses on the fate of Emily Thorne, played by Emily VanCamp , who is actually Amanda Clarke, and follows the vengeance of the young woman who has returned to the Hamptons to seek retaliation.

Bucksey worked for Fargo , a crime series based on the film of the same name by Ethan and Joel Coen , in 2014. The action takes place in Kansas City , Missouri in the 1950s . He was awarded an Emmy for directing the episode Buridan's Ass . In 2015/2016, Bucksey was the producer of twelve episodes of the television series Ray Donovan and ten episodes of the series Masters of Sex , which tells the story of sex researchers William Howell Masters and Virginia E. Johnson .

For the US television series The Affair , in which scenes are presented or told in parallel, once from a male and once from a female point of view, Bucksey staged five episodes in the period 2018/2019. Another work by the director is the American anthology series Briarpatch based on a novel by Ross Thomas , of which he directed two episodes in 2020. Thomas' novel of the same name won the Edgar Allan Poe Award . Allegra Dill, played by Rosario Dawson , returns to her hometown on the Texas-Mexico border to investigate who murdered her sister in the corruption-ridden town.

Private

From 1973 to 1987 Bucksey was married to the film producer Verity Lambert. The couple divorced. He then married Sally, with whom he has been married for 26 years and has two children together.

Filmography (selection)

- Director, unless otherwise stated -

• 1973: A Bigger Splash (semi-documentary film; camera)
• 1975: The Lifetaker (camera)
• 1976: House of Mortal Sin (camera)
• 1976: Spy Story (camera)
• 1976: Couples (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1976: Crown Court (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 1978: Task Force Police (police series, continuation Departures )
• 1979: BBC2 Play of the Week (TV series, episode Fearless Frank )
• 1980: Armchair Thriller (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 1981: Theater Box (TV series, episode Marmalade Atkins in Space )
• 1982, 1983: Educating Marmalade (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 1983: Jim Bergerac investigated ( Bergerac , TV series, episode A Miracle Every Week )
• 1985: The Hunt for Black Money ( Blue Money , TV movie)
• 1986: Call Me Mister (TV series, episode Longshot )
• 1987: Hitchhiker Incredible Stories (TV series, episodes of Joker and Secret Ingredient )
• 1987–1989: Miami Vice (crime series, 4 episodes)
• 1988: Crime Story (crime series, episodes Last Rites , Pursuit and Escape )
• 1989: Big Busine $$ (Dealers)
• 1989: Der Nachtfalke ( Midnight Caller , Follow Watching Me, Watching You and End of Innocence )
• 1990: Curiosity Kills
• 1991: The Cartel of Death (Death Merchants)
• 1992: Beloved Agent ( Notorious , TV movie)
• 1993: The Untouchables (TV series, episodes The Seduction of Eliot Ness and Pagano's Folly )
• 1994: Delivered to Terror ( Terror in the Night , TV movie)
• 1994: Space Cops - Tatort Demeter City ( Space Precinct , episodes Welcome to Demeter City and Double Duty )
• 1995: Live Shot (TV series, episode Another Day, Another Story )
• 1996: Kidnapped - Your child is mine ( A Kidnapping in the Family , TV movie)
• 1996: Rosamunde Pilcher: September (2-part TV film)
• 1996: Sliders - The Gate into a Foreign Dimension (TV series, episode Obsession )
• 1996–1999: Nash Bridges (TV series, episodes Javelin Catcher and Hide and Seek )
• 1997: Mother's Day of Horror ( When Secrets Kill , TV movie)
• 1998: An Endless Nightmare (Nightmare Street, TV movie)
• 1998: Raumstation Unity ( Space Island One , TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1999: The Profis - The Next Generation ( CI5: The New Professionals , Follow Choice Cuts and Orbit )
• 2000: Falling Through
• 2001: Lexx - The Dark Zone (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2004: Starhunter (TV series, episode Negative Energy )
• 2005: Kojak (TV series, episodes East Sixties and All Bets Off: Part 1 )
• 2005–2008: Navy CIS (crime series, 7 episodes)
• 2006: Eureka - The Secret City (TV series, episode Primal )
• 2006, 2007: 4400 - The returnees ( 4400 , Mystery Series, Follow Being Tom Baldwin , Blink and Audrey Parker's Come and Gone )
• 2007: Numbers - The Logic of Crime (TV series, episode Finders Keepers )
• 2007–2011: Burn Notice (TV series, episodes Fight or Flight , Center of the Storm and Bloodlines )
• 2009–2012: Breaking Bad (crime series, 4 episodes)
• 2010: Trauma (TV series, episode Sweet Jane )
• 2010: The Glades (crime series, episode Honey )
• 2010: Medium - Nothing remains hidden (TV series, episode Talk to the Hand )
• 2011: The Secret Circle (TV series, episode Loner )
• 2011: Person of Interest (crime series, episode Judgment )
• 2012: Dr. House ( House, MD , Doctor Series, episode Man of the House )
• 2012: Damages (Lawyer series, episode Have You Met the Eel Yet? )
• 2012: Elementary (crime series, episode Lesser Evils )
• 2012–2014: Franklin & Bash (TV series, episodes Waiting on a Friend , Freck and Deep Throat )
• 2012–2015: Revenge (drama series, 5 episodes)
• 2013: Monday Mornings (TV series, episode Communion )
• 2013: Do No Harm (TV series, episode Circadian Rhythms )
• 2014: Fargo (crime series, episodes The Six Ungraspables and Buridan's Ass )
• 2014: The Bridge - America (crime series, episodes The Acorn and Eidolon )
• 2014: Resurrection (Fantasy series, episode Miracles )
• 2015: Battle Creek (TV series, episode The Hand-Off )
• 2015: Ray Donovan (TV series, 4 episodes directed, 12 episodes produced)
• 2015, 2016: Better Call Saul (drama series, episodes Hero , Rico and Inflatable )
• 2016: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (TV series, episode The Harmful One )
• 2016: Family (TV series, episodes Sweet Jane and Election Day )
• 2016: Masters of Sex (TV series, episodes Freefall , Coats or Keys and Family Only and 10 episodes produced)
• 2016: The Man in the High Castle (TV series, episode The Road Less Traveled )
• 2017: Get Shorty (TV series, episode Sins of a Chambermaid )
• 2017: Ten Days in the Valley (TV series, episode Day 2: Cutting Room Floor )
• 2017-2019: Billions (TV series, 7 episodes)
• 2018: Six (TV series, episode Critical )
• 2018, 2019: The Affair (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2020: The Sinner (TV series, episode Part V )
• 2020: Briarpatch (TV series, episodes Behind God's Back and The Most Sinful Motherfucker Alive )

Awards

• 1983: British Academy of Film and Television Arts : Nominated for the BAFTA TV Award together with Sue Birtwistle and John Stroud
  for Educating Marmalade in the category "Best Children's Program"
• 1986: Mystfest: Nominated for Screen Two , Episode The McGuffin in the category "Best Picture"
• 2012: Online Film & Television Association: Nominated for the OFTA Television Award
  together with Michelle MacLaren , Adam Bernstein, Vince Gilligan , Michael Slovis, Bryan Cranston , Rian Johnson , Peter Gould and Sam Catlin for Breaking Bad in the category “Best Director in One dramatic series "
• 2014: Online Film & Television Association: Nominated for the OFTA Television Award
  together with Adam Bernstein, Randall Einhorn, Matt Shakman , Scott Winant for Fargo in the category "Best Director Film or Miniseries"
• 2014: Primetime Emmy Awards:
  Awarded the Primetime Emmy for Fargo , episode Buridan's Ass in the category "Remarkable Directing in a Miniseries"

Web links

• Colin Bucksey in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Colin Bucksey at filmportal.de
2. ↑ Colin Bucksey at the Emmy Awards see page gettyimages.de