A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Arvin Bragin Brown
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born:
May 24, 1940
Arvin Brown (born May 24, 1940) is an Americantheatre and television director and was the Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut for 30 years. He was married to actress Joyce Ebert until her death in 1997. Born in Los Angeles, California, Brown made his Broadway directorial debut with a 1970 revival of Noël Coward's Hay Fever. Subsequent credits include The National Health (1974), Ah, Wilderness! (1975), Watch on the Rhine (1980), A View from the Bridge (1983), American Buffalo (1983), Open Admissions (1984), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1985), All My Sons (1987), Private Lives (1992), and The Twilight of the Golds (1993). Brown has directed for numerous television series, including multiple episodes of NCIS, Leverage, Lie to Me, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Crossing Jordan, Kevin Hill, Everwood, and The Closer, and single episodes for Picket Fences, Party of Five, Chicago Hope, Dawson's Creek, Judging Amy, Ed, Private Practice and Shark, among many others. He has made one feature film, Diary of the Dead (1976), starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, Hector Elizondo, and Salome Jens.
Director:
1974 The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1975 Forget-Me-Not Lane
1976 Ah, Wilderness!
1976 Diary of the Dead
1978 Amahl and the Night Visitors
1998 Change of Heart
2001 Just Ask My Children
2003 Blessings
2003 Declaration of Independence
2003 Open House
2003 The Gin Game
Director:
1971 Great Performances
1994 Chicago Hope
1994 Party of Five
1996 Relativity
1997 Ally McBeal
1997 The Practice
1998 Any Day Now
1998 Dawson's Creek
1998 To Have & to Hold
1999 Judging Amy
1999 Once and Again
1999 Popular
1999 Roswell
1999 Snoops
2000 Ed
2001 Crossing Jordan
2001 The Agency
2001 The Guardian
2002 Everwood
2003 Miss Match
2003 NCIS
2004 Jack & Bobby
2004 Kevin Hill
2005 Related
2005 The Closer
2006 Men in Trees
2006 My Boys
2006 Shark
2007 Private Practice
2007 The Wedding Bells
2008 Leverage
2009 Hawthorne
2009 Lie to Me
2010 Rizzoli & Isles
2014 NCIS: New Orleans
2015 Complications
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