Joe Napolitano

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Joe Napolitano on the set of Back to the Past (1991)

Joseph Ralph "Joe" Napolitano (seldom also JR Napolitano , born November 22, 1948 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York ; died July 23, 2016 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American television director . He has also worked as an assistant director for many well-known film directors . His creative period extended from 1974 to the end of his life in 2016 and includes over 50 productions.

life and work

Napolitano's long list of produced series episodes as a director includes twelve episodes of Back to the Past , two episodes of The X-Files , two episodes of Picket Fences , three episodes of Pretender , two episodes of LA Doctors , two episodes from Dawson's Creek , four episodes from Boston Public, and 14 episodes from Strong Medicine: Two Doctors Like Fire and Ice . Likewise, two television films, you are an angel! ( Earth Angel) and Virus (Contagious) . For her role in the latter, actress Elizabeth Peña received an ALMA Award in 1998 for Outstanding Actress in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series .

In the 1980s Joe Napolitano also worked regularly on feature films as assistant director for great directors such as Brian De Palma (on Blow Out - Death Erases All Traces , Scarface , Death Comes Twice , Wise Guys - Two Super Plums in the Underworld , The Untouchables - The Untouchables ), Brian G. Hutton (in The First Deadly Sin with Frank Sinatra and Faye Dunaway ), Danny DeVito (in Throwing the mom off the train! ), Stuart Rosenberg (in The Godfather of Greenwich Village ), Donald P. Bellisario ( on Last Rites ), Ron Howard (on Eine Wahnsinnsfamilie ), Howard Zieff (on Das Traum-Team ) and Terry Gilliam (on König der Fischer ). For the new great director Antoine Fuqua he took over again in 2009 as assistant director at Law of the Road - Brooklyn's Finest .

In 1996 he took over directing the feature film elements of the video game Zork Nemesis .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Movies - Joe Napolitano's filmography. In: The New York Times . Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Actress Elizabeth Peña dead at 55. Understated, intelligent sensuality. In: Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands for DOS (1996) - MobyGames. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Napolitano, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Napolitano, Joseph Ralph; Napolitano, JR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television director
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2016
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States