14 Facts About Daniel Sackheim

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Daniel Sackheim was born on in 1962 and is an American television and film director, producer, and photographer.

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Daniel Sackheim directed The Walking Dead, The Americans, and Ozark, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.

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Daniel Sackheim has won a Primetime Emmy Award as a director and been nominated twice for his work as a producer and director.

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Daniel Sackheim directed the third and fourth episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.

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Daniel Sackheim was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, the son of screenwriter William Sackheim and his wife JoAnne.

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Daniel Sackheim is married to Leslie Sackheim; they have two children, Josh and Emma, and live in Encino, California.

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Daniel Sackheim's career began with a role as an assistant film editor on the 1984 John Cassavetes film Love Streams, before he found work as a music supervisor and associate producer on the NBC series Miami Vice.

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Daniel Sackheim later went on to produce the pilot episode of The X-Files and direct the pilot episode of Harsh Realm.

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Daniel Sackheim served as an executive producer for the 2005 series Night Stalker, a remake of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker; and again as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder.

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Daniel Sackheim directed the pilot episode of NBC's Hawaii and the television films Homeland Security and The Lottery.

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Daniel Sackheim made his feature film directing debut on 2001's The Glass House.

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From 2010 Daniel Sackheim has directed a number of episodes of high rating AMC series The Walking Dead, and since 2013 has worked as a producer on the FX series The Americans which was listed in the American Film Institute Awards 2013 best ten television programs of the year; as well as serving as executive producer for the 2012 series The Finder.

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Daniel Sackheim's work has earned him one Primetime Emmy Award and three additional Emmy nominations.

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In 1994, Daniel Sackheim won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, having been nominated for his work on the NYPD Blue episode "Tempest in a C-Cup".