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Robert Butler (born November 16, 1927) is an American film director〔(【引用サイトリンク】The New York Times">title=Robert Butler )〕 and Emmy Award-winning television director. He is best known for his work in television, where he directed the pilots for a number of influential series including ''Star Trek'' and ''Hill Street Blues''.〔 == Career == Butler graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he majored in English. He began his career as a stage manager and an assistant before launching his directing career with an episode of ''Hennesey'' (starring Jackie Cooper and including a young Ron Howard)〔Susan King, ("Director Robert Butler put stamp on 'Batman,' other landmark series" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', February 15, 2014.〕 and then went on to direct such shows as ''The Untouchables'', ''Dr. Kildare'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''The Fugitive'' or ''The Twilight Zone''. Butler shot pilots for many TV series including the original ''Star Trek'', ''Hogan's Heroes'', ''Batman'', ''The Blue Knight'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Remington Steele'' (a show which he also co-created), ''Moonlighting'', ''Sisters'', and ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. Butler has also directed episodes for many other shows, including ''I Spy'', ''Blue Light'', ''The Invaders'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''The Outcasts'', ''Mission: Impossible'', ''Kung Fu'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''Columbo: Publish or Perish'', ''Columbo: Double Shock'', and ''Midnight Caller''. He directed actor Kurt Russell in four Walt Disney movies, including ''Guns in the Heather'', ''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'', ''The Barefoot Executive'' and the 1997 film ''Turbulence''. Butler has won two Emmy Awards for outstanding directing, the first in 1973 for the ''The Blue Knight'' pilot, and the second in 1981 for his ''Hill Street Blues'' premiere. In 2014 Butler's work was the subject of a career retrospective at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.〔 Butler was honored by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) with a Lifetime Achievement Award in February of 2015. 〔http://variety.com/2015/tv/awards/james-l-burrows-and-robert-butler-to-receive-dga-lifetime-achievement-award-1201424072/, Variety, Feb. 5, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Butler (director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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