Allan Arkush
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Title | Director, Executive Producer |
Date of birth | 30 April 1948 |
Origin | Jersey City, NJ, USA |
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IMDb profile |
Allan Arkush was a director and executive producer on Heroes. Arkush joined the crew immediately after the pilot and has served as an executive producer on the first three seasons. He was let go by NBC after Season Three, though he was brought back to direct the Season Four episode The Wall. Years later, Allan joined the Heroes Reborn team by directing two episodes.
About
Since 1970 Allan Arkush has been directing both film and television. He is best known for directing more than 20 episodes of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan, and the film Rock 'n' Roll High School which he helped develop the story for as well. He's also edited, acted in, and written several film and television projects, including L.A. Law, St. Elsewhere, Moonlighting, I'll Fly Away, Dawson's Creek, The Practice, and Ally McBeal. Allan has also directed music videos for such artists as Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, and Mick Jagger. In addition, Arkush directed rock-music television movies such as Elvis Meets Nixon, Shake, Rattle and Rock!, XXX's & OOO's, and Young at Heart.
Following his work on Heroes, Allan went on to be an executive director of the television show Hellcats. He also directed episodes of Life Unexpected, Hellcats, and Ringer.
Allan has worked with Clint Howard in Rock 'n' Roll High School, Grand Theft Auto, Get Crazy, and Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan.
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Episodes Directed
- In His Own Image
- Unaired pilot
- Genesis
- Don't Look Back
- One Giant Leap
- Collision
- Hiros
- Better Halves
- Nothing to Hide
- Seven Minutes to Midnight
- Homecoming
- Six Months Ago
- Fallout
- Godsend
- The Fix
- Distractions
- Run!
- Unexpected
- Company Man
- Parasite
- .07%
- Five Years Gone
- The Hard Part
- Landslide
- How to Stop an Exploding Man
- Four Months Later...
- Lizards
- Kindred
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Fight or Flight
- The Line
- Out of Time
- Four Months Ago...
- Cautionary Tales
- Truth & Consequences
- Powerless
- The Second Coming
- The Butterfly Effect
- One of Us, One of Them
- I Am Become Death
- Angels and Monsters
- Dying of the Light
- Eris Quod Sum
- Villains
- It's Coming
- The Eclipse, Part 1
- The Eclipse, Part 2
- Our Father
- Dual
- A Clear and Present Danger
- Trust and Blood
- Building 26
- Cold Wars
- Exposed
- Shades of Gray
- Cold Snap
- Into Asylum
- Turn and Face the Strange
- 1961
- I Am Sylar
- An Invisible Thread
- Orientation
- Jump, Push, Fall
- Ink
- Acceptance
- Hysterical Blindness
- Tabula Rasa
- Strange Attractors
- Once Upon a Time in Texas
- Shadowboxing
- Brother's Keeper
- Thanksgiving
- The Fifth Stage
- Upon This Rock
- Let It Bleed
- Close to You
- Pass/Fail
- The Art of Deception
- The Wall
- Brave New World (Heroes)
- Brave New World (Heroes Reborn)
- Odessa
- Under the Mask
- The Needs of the Many
- The Lion's Den
- Game Over
- June 13th, Part One
- June 13th, Part Two
- Sundae, Bloody Sundae
- 11:53 to Odessa
- Send in the Clones
- Company Woman
- Project Reborn
- Unaired pilot
- Genesis
- Don't Look Back
- One Giant Leap
- Collision
- Hiros
- Better Halves
- Nothing to Hide
- Seven Minutes to Midnight
- Homecoming
- Six Months Ago
- Fallout
- Godsend
- The Fix
- Distractions
- Run!
- Unexpected
- Company Man
- Parasite
- .07%
- Five Years Gone
- The Hard Part
- Landslide
- How to Stop an Exploding Man
- Four Months Later...
- Lizards
- Kindred
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Fight or Flight
- The Line
- Out of Time
- Four Months Ago...
- Cautionary Tales
- Truth & Consequences
- Powerless
- The Second Coming
- The Butterfly Effect
- One of Us, One of Them
- I Am Become Death
- Angels and Monsters
- Dying of the Light
- Eris Quod Sum
- Villains
- It's Coming
- The Eclipse, Part 1
- The Eclipse, Part 2
- Our Father
- Dual
- A Clear and Present Danger
- Trust and Blood
- Building 26
- Cold Wars
- Exposed
- Shades of Gray
- Cold Snap
- Into Asylum
- Turn and Face the Strange
- 1961
- I Am Sylar
- An Invisible Thread
- Orientation
- Jump, Push, Fall
- Ink
- Acceptance
- Hysterical Blindness
- Tabula Rasa
- Strange Attractors
- Once Upon a Time in Texas
- Shadowboxing
- Brother's Keeper
- Thanksgiving
- The Fifth Stage
- Upon This Rock
- Let It Bleed
- Close to You
- Pass/Fail
- The Art of Deception
- The Wall
- Brave New World (Heroes)
- Brave New World (Heroes Reborn)
- Odessa
- Under the Mask
- The Needs of the Many
- The Lion's Den
- Game Over
- June 13th, Part One
- June 13th, Part Two
- Sundae, Bloody Sundae
- 11:53 to Odessa
- Send in the Clones
- Company Woman
- Project Reborn
Notes
- According to Greg Beeman's blog, Allan Arkush loves to deal with postproduction and especially music.
- Allan directed the episode Villains. The storyline for the character Knox were cut from the episode, and were later aired on NBC.com as Hard Knox.
- On April 19, 2009, Allan Arkush produced a video that was shown at the Heroes for Autism fundraiser.
Trivia
- Allan Arkush is the only person who has directed both Frank Sinatra (Young at Heart) and Joey Ramone (Rock 'n' Roll High School).
- Allan's first job in music was at the Fillmore East in New York, where he handled the psychedelic lighting for such bands as "The Who" and "The Grateful Dead".
- According to Greg Beeman's blog, Allan often directs episodes immediately following episodes directed by Greg. This way, each of the two regular directors can focus on their own episodes, and will have more time to help out and oversee "guest directors".
External Links
- Interview with Allan Arkush at Greg Beeman's blog, 9/22/08