James Burrows Biography
James Burrows Edward , also known as Jim Burrows, is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s. Burrows has directed over 50 television pilots.
James has also co-created the long-running television series Cheers. In 1998, Burrows directed a Chicago-based production of the 1939 comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner starring John Mahoney.
James Burrows Career
Burrows went back to California after Yale, where he was hired as a dialogue coach on O.K. Cracker by!. This was a television series starring Burl Ives and created by Burrows’ father, Abe. Burrows then took a job as an assistant stage manager on the play Holly Golightly. An adaptation of the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The production was unsuccessful.
The position acted as Burrows’ introduction to its star, Mary Tyler Moore. Initially, Burrows as well worked for the road company of Cactus Flower and the Broadway production of Forty Carats. Burrows continued working in auditoriun as a stage executive and changed over into directing plays. Burrows directed travelling plays and production at a Jacksonville, Florida dinner theatre.
Television director
While working in theatre, Burrows wrote Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker seeking a job at their production company, MTM Enterprises. In 1974, Tinker hired Burrows as a director for MTM Enterprises where he directed episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show. Tinker asked director Jay Sandrich, known for his work directing The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
He later directed the Cosby Show and The Golden Girls, to serve as a mentor to Burrows. Burrows is best known for his comic timing, complex blocking for actors. And also incorporating more sophisticated lighting in television studio shoots. He is also credited as being one of the first sitcom directors to increase the typical multi-camera television shoot from three to four cameras.
James Burrows Age
Burrows was born on 30th December 1940 in Los Angeles, California in the United States. He is 78 years old as of 2019.
James Burrows Family
Burrows was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California. His parents are Ruth Levinson and Abe Burrows, a well-known composer, director, and writer. James has one sister, Laurie Burrows Grad.
When James was still a young child, his family moved to New York where James attended New York’s High School of Music & Art. Burrows is a graduate of Oberlin College and the graduate program of the Yale School of Drama.
James Burrows Wife
Burrows is married to celebrity hairstylist Debbie Easton, they live in Manhattan. Burrows was previously married to Linda Solomon. He is a father to three daughters and a stepdaughter.
James Burrows Body Measurements
- Height: 5ft” 12in’ (1.72 m)
- Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
- Shoe Size: Not Available
- Body Shape: Average
- Hair Colour: Grey
James Burrows Net Worth
The television director, Burrows, has an estimated net worth of $600 million which he has earned through his successful career as a Television director.
James Burrows Movies
- Partners
- Robin Hood
- This Is England
James Burrows TV Shows
- Superior Donuts
- Man With A Plan
- Will & Grace
- Me & Mean Margaret
- Friends With Better Lives
- The Big Bang Theory
- The Millers
- Partners
- 2 Broke Girls
- $#*! My Dad Says
- 100 Questions
- Romantically Challenged
- Mike & Molly
- Back to You
- The Class
- Teachers
- Courting Alex
Burrows directed every episode of Will & Grace during its initial eight-year run. Additionally, by 2012 Burrows had directed over 50 pilots for television series.
Burrows has directed over 1,000 episodes of television, a milestone he achieved in November 2015 with the NBC sitcom Crowded. To celebrate Burrows’ achievement, NBC aired a special tribute on February 21, 2016, titled Must See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows featuring cast reunions from many of the series Burrows has directed such as Cheers, Taxi, Friends, Frasier, The Big Bang Theory, Will & Grace and Mike & Molly.
James Burrows In front of the camera
Burrows has had cameo appearances in several of the shows for which he has directed. In the first season of Friends, Burrows appeared in the episode “The One with the Butt” as the director of the film in which the character Joey Tribbiani is cast as Al Pacino’s “butt double”.
He also appears as a television director named Jimmy in the 2005 HBO series The Comeback. Burrows played himself on the series. An episode of Scrubs, “My Life in Four Cameras”, had a character named Charles James in honour of Cheers creators Burrows and Glen and Les Charles.
The 101 Greatest TV Comedies of All Time. James served as the silhouette of the customer who knocks on the door in the final scene of Cheers. Burrows himself refuted this claim on episode 9 of the NewsRadio-themed podcast Dispatches from Fort Awesome, revealing that the actual “Man Who Knocks” was agent Bob Broder.
James Burrows Awards
Over the course of his career, Burrows has been nominated for fifteen Directors Guild of America awards, and for an Emmy Award every year between 1980 and 2005, excluding 1997.
Burrows has won ten Emmy Awards and four Directors Guild of America Awards. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences celebrated Burrows’ forty-year career by hosting a panel in his honour on October 7, 2013.
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