Norman Buckley

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Norman L. Buckley (born November 25, 1955 in Limestone , Maine ) is an American television director and film editor . He is known for his work on the series OC, California , Chuck , Gossip Girl , Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters .

Life and education

Norman Buckley was born in Limestone , Maine . His parents are Betty Bob (nee Diltz), a dancer and journalist, and Ernest Buckley, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force and later a university professor and dean of engineering . Buckely grew up in Fort Worth , Texas and studied history at the University of Texas at Arlington before moving to California, where he later graduated from the University of Southern California . Trorz family resistance, especially on the part of the father, Buckely enrolled in the film school of the University of Southern California. Originally he wanted to be a screenwriter , but quickly discovered that he had a natural talent for film editing .

Career and work

Norman Buckley is best known for directing the television series Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl . It wasn't until 2011 that he shot his first film, The Pregnancy Project, for Lifetime . His career began in 1983 as an assistant to the film editor William M. Anderson in the drama Comeback der Liebe (Tender Mercies) , in which his sister Betty Buckley played a leading role. It was she who helped him get the job. Anderson was delighted with Buckley's talent and took him to New York City to start working there as an editor. Since then he has worked as an editor on many feature and television films as well as television series. His connections with Stephanie Savage and McG , with whom he worked at Fastlane , earned him his double job as director and film editor at OC, California . After work on OC, California came to an end, Buckley Schwartz followed to be again responsible for directing and editing on his next projects Gossip Girl and Chuck .

He had one foray into film production - on the film Happy, Texas in 1999 . He was engaged as an episode director for various series: OC, California , Gossip Girl , Chuck , Greek , Melrose Place , 90210 , Privileged , The Middleman , Make It or Break It , Pretty Little Liars , The Client List , The Carrie Diaries , Rizzoli and Isles , Switched At Birth , Hart of Dixie, and the Rockville, CA web series by Josh Schwartz . Entertainment Weekly selected the OC, California episode he directed , The Metamorphosis, as one of the show's top five episodes. His episode The Handmaiden's Tale on the youth series Gossip Girl was selected as one of the top ten series episodes of 2007 by Newsweek magazine .

For fun, he only took on a small role in the film Solomon & Sheba , which he got because he was editing another film project ( Slave of Dreams ) in Ouarzazate , Morocco and the producers didn't want to fly in another English-speaking actor.

Buckley was nominated twice for the American Cinema Editors Award: in 2003, for Joe and Max , in the category Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television, and in 2008 for the Pilot of Chuck , in the category Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television . He won the latter at the awards ceremony during the ACE Banquet on February 17, 2008.

He was visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles Film School .

Personal

Buckley has a sister, Tony Award winner Betty Buckley, and two brothers, Patrick and Michael. The brothers became engineers. a job the father thought more of than any job in the film industry. Buckley noted in an interview that his father "expressed his pride in my accomplishments before his death."

When there was a legal opportunity in California for a short time in September 2008, he married his partner, the painter Davyd Whaley . The two were married until Whaley's death in October 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Angie Summers: Fort Worth native relocates from 'The OC' to 'Chuck'. . Fort Worth Star Telegram . June 26, 2007. Accessed December 23, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.highbeam.com
  2. ↑ Kim Holmes: Schwartz struts his stuff on 'OC' . Daily Trojan . April 22, 2004. Archived from the original on November 26, 2007. Retrieved on December 23, 2007.
  3. ^ The OC Show - Editing 'The OC'. October 14, 2007, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  4. ^ John Silberg: Spy Secrets . VFX Pro. November 18, 2007. Retrieved December 23, 2007.
  5. ^ Solomon & Sheba (TV Movie 1995). Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
  6. ^ John P. McCarthy: Review: 'Slave of Dreams'. In: Variety . December 7, 1995, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Dave McNary: Editor sharpen focus with ACE nom list. In: Variety . January 23, 2003, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  8. ^ Carolyn Giardina: Editors unveil their Eddie noms. In: THR . January 12, 2008, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  9. ↑ UCLA General Catalog 2007-08: Film, Television, and Digital Media Faculty Roster. February 9, 2008, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Amanda Peake: Remembering the Life of Los Angeles Artist Davyd Whaley. In: press release. October 22, 2014, accessed August 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Buckley, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buckley, Norman L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television director and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Limestone , Maine