A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Born:
June 18, 1970
Greg Yaitanes is an American television and film director. He is also an angel investor in Twitter. Emmy Award-winning television and film director Greg Yaitanes is one of the most recognized names in Hollywood, directing and producing top shows including Damages, Lost, Prison Break, Heroes and Grey's Anatomy. His Emmy Award came in 2008 as result of his work on House, M.D., the most popular show worldwide. Yaitanes grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where he directed his very first film, Salad Bar: The Movie. At the age of 18, Yaitanes moved to Los Angeles and attended the University of Southern California Film School. By 23, he landed his first directorial job. Yaitanes was so persistent that he once waited seven hours for a 10-minute meeting with action film producer Joel Silver. After screening Yaitanes' work, Silver signed him for his second feature. Since then, Yaitanes' artistic talent and dedication have led him to a successful career in the director's chair in television. Though he is well known in Hollywood for his work on several top-watched shows, his technological entrepreneurship has also made him a respected name in Silicon Valley. His investments in start-up companies such as Twitter have earned him a reputation for foresight in technology. Yaitanes is one of Twitter's original investors and a frequent guest speaker at the company. Active in the Greek community, Yaitanes helped produce Greek America Foundation's Gabby Awards and directed the opening of the 2011 Gabby Awards on Ellis Island. Greg resides between New York and Los Angeles and has two boy.
Author:
2003 Dune - Bedrohung des Imperiums
Director:
1995 Hard Justice
1997 Double Tap
2001 Plan B
2003 Dune - Bedrohung des Imperiums
2003 Hotel
2006 Southern Comfort
Executive Producer:
1995 Hard Justice
1997 Double Tap
2001 Plan B
2003 Dune - Bedrohung des Imperiums
2003 Hotel
2006 Southern Comfort
2024 Donut Boy
Co-Executive Producer:
2022 House of the Dragon
Director:
1996 Nash Bridges
1997 Soldier of Fortune
1998 Martial Law
1998 V.I.P.
2000 Cleopatra 2525
2000 The Invisible Man
2001 Alias
2002 CSI: Miami
2002 Fastlane
2003 Black Sash
2003 Cold Case
2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
2003 Las Vegas
2003 Nip/Tuck
2004 CSI: NY
2004 House
2004 Lost
2005 Bones
2005 Commander in Chief
2005 Empire
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2005 Over There
2005 Prison Break
2005 The Closer
2006 Heroes
2007 Damages
2007 Drive
2007 Women's Murder Club
2013 Banshee
2013 Banshee: Origins
2013 Ray Donovan
2016 Quarry
2016 Underground
2017 Manhunt
2017 Snowfall
2018 Castle Rock
2019 The Twilight Zone
2022 House of the Dragon
2022 The Old Man
2024 Presumed Innocent
Executive Producer:
1996 Nash Bridges
1997 Soldier of Fortune
1998 Martial Law
1998 V.I.P.
2000 Cleopatra 2525
2000 The Invisible Man
2001 Alias
2002 CSI: Miami
2002 Fastlane
2003 Black Sash
2003 Cold Case
2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
2003 Las Vegas
2003 Nip/Tuck
2004 CSI: NY
2004 House
2004 Lost
2005 Bones
2005 Commander in Chief
2005 Empire
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2005 Over There
2005 Prison Break
2005 The Closer
2006 Heroes
2007 Damages
2007 Drive
2007 Women's Murder Club
2013 Banshee
2013 Banshee: Origins
2013 Ray Donovan
2016 Quarry
2016 Underground
2017 Manhunt
2017 Snowfall
2018 Castle Rock
2019 The Twilight Zone
2022 House of the Dragon
2022 The Old Man
2024 Presumed Innocent
Producer:
1996 Nash Bridges
1997 Soldier of Fortune
1998 Martial Law
1998 V.I.P.
2000 Cleopatra 2525
2000 The Invisible Man
2001 Alias
2002 CSI: Miami
2002 Fastlane
2003 Black Sash
2003 Cold Case
2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
2003 Las Vegas
2003 Nip/Tuck
2004 CSI: NY
2004 House
2004 Lost
2005 Bones
2005 Commander in Chief
2005 Empire
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2005 Over There
2005 Prison Break
2005 The Closer
2006 Heroes
2007 Damages
2007 Drive
2007 Women's Murder Club
2013 Banshee
2013 Banshee: Origins
2013 Ray Donovan
2016 Quarry
2016 Underground
2017 Manhunt
2017 Snowfall
2018 Castle Rock
2019 The Twilight Zone
2022 House of the Dragon
2022 The Old Man
2024 Presumed Innocent
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.