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Paris K.C. Barclay is an American television director and producer. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is currently the busiest single-camera television director in the Directors Guild, having directed over 120 episodes of television to date, for series such as NYPD Blue, ER, The West Wing,... CSI, Lost, The Shield, House, Law & Order, Monk, Numb3rs, City of Angels, Cold Case, and more recently Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, Weeds, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Good Wife, In Treatment, Glee, and Smash. Currently, Barclay is executive producer and principal director of FX’s highest rated series ever, Sons of Anarchy, which will air season five in 2012. Simultaneously, he is executive producing Prodigy Bully, a comedy pilot for FOX written by and starring Mike O'Malley. Also, Paris will direct and produce a feature film biopic about the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan starring Viola Davis. Barclay is currently serving his fourth term as First Vice-President of the Directors Guild of America. Barclay was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He attended La Lumiere School, a private college preparatory boarding school in La Porte, Indiana.
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William Henry "Bill" Duke, Jr. is an American actor and film director with over 35 years of experience. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke's work frequently dwells within the action/crime and drama genres but also includes comedy. Duke was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of... Ethel Louise and William Henry Duke Sr. He received his first instruction in the performing arts and in creative writing at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie under Professor Constance Kuhn in drama and Professor Howard Winn in creative writing. His first major acting role at Dutchess was as the lead in Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones. After graduation from Dutchess he went on to Boston University for further instruction in drama and for his B.A. After studying at New York University's Tisch School of Arts and the AFI Conservatory, he appeared on Broadway in the 1971 Melvin Van Peebles musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. He directed episodes of several noteworthy 1980s television series, including Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice.
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Kevin Rodney Sullivan is an American film and television actor and film director. He is married to wife Nita Sullivan, and has a daughter, Nicole L. Sullivan. Sullivan is a native of San Francisco who began his career as a child actor. He grew up in St. Francis Square in the Fillmore district of... San Francisco as the youngest of three children. His father was a bus driver, and his mother was a receptionist for the St. Mary’s hospital. According to Sullivan, he was “one step up from a housing project”. During sixth grade while performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sullivan’s talents were picked up by Ann Brebner, who placed him and his entire class as extras in a movie by Sydney Poitier, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs. This was his first experience with cinema. Brebner would continue to give him auditions for various roles. In 1970, he was picked up for a job in an Alphabits Cereal commercial, making over 7,000 dollars off of that role alone. He continued to obtain small roles in theater productions and doing commercials. Most notably, He got a role as the Master of Ceremonies during a show of Sesame Street that was being filmed live at Golden Gate Park.
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