Frederick E. O. Toye (born September 26, 1967) is an American television director and occasional producer. His directorial work in 2016 includes an episode in the final season of ''

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'', the 100th episode of ''

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'', several episodes for ''

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'' and the miniseries ''

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'', and for the

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series ''

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''.

Early life and education

Toye attended the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

and graduated with a B.A. He is a great-grandson of the opera singer

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Career

Toye began his career as a production assistant for five years and an editor for 15 years, before becoming a television director. He is a frequent collaborator of

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. He has directed, edited, and co-produced several episodes of the

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series, '' Alias'', as well as serving as a producer and occasional director on the

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science fiction series ''

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''. In 2024, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for his work on the first season of the FX series ''

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''. He has also directed episodes of: '' Lost'', ''

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'', '' Brothers & Sisters'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' V'', '' CSI: NY'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and other series.

Television work

*''

'' **episode 1.02 "The Kill Floor" **episode 1.04 "The Eyes of Texas" *''

'' **episode 3.11 "The Gospel According to Collier" *'' Alias'' **episode 4.13 "Tuesday" **episode 5.02 "...1..." **episode 5.04 "Mockingbird" **episode 5.13 "30 Seconds" **episode 5.16 "Reprisal" *'' Almost Human'' **episode 1.12 "Beholder" *''

American Gods ''American Gods'' (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana (culture), Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shad ...

'' **episode 2.02 " The Begulling Man" *''

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'' **episode 1.12 "Second Chance" *'' The Boys'' **episode 1.04 "The Female of the Species" **episode 2.04 "Nothing Like It in the World" **episode 4.03 "We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here" *''

'' **episode 1.06 "Notes Toward a Post-Reagan Theory of Party Alliance, Tribalism, and Loyalty: Past as Prologue" **episode 1.07 "The Power of Euphemism: How Torture Became a Matter of Debate in American Politics" *'' Brothers & Sisters'' **episode 1.06 "For the Children" **episode 1.10 "Light the Lights" *''

'' **episode 1.12 "Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover" **episode 3.05 "Chuck Versus the First Class" **episode 3.15 "Chuck Versus the Role Models" **episode 4.17 "Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil" **episode 5.09 "Chuck Versus the Kept Man" *'' CSI: Cyber'' **episode 2.13 "The Walking Dead" *'' CSI: NY'' **episode 5.02 "Page Turner" **episode 7.15 "Vigilante" **episode 8.01 "Indelible" *''

Designated Survivor In the United States, a designated survivor (or designated successor) is a person in the presidential line of succession who is kept distant from others in the line when they are gathered together, to reduce the chance that everyone in the line ...

'' **episode 1.07 "The Traitor" **episode 1.10 "The Oath" **episode 1.14 "Commander-in-Chief" **episode 1.17 "The Ninth Seat" **episode 1.21 "Brace for Impact" **episode 2.02 "Sting of the Tail" *''

Evil Evil, as a concept, is usually defined as profoundly immoral behavior, and it is related to acts that cause unnecessary pain and suffering to others. Evil is commonly seen as the opposite, or sometimes absence, of good. It can be an extreme ...

'' **episode 1.09 "Exorcism Part 2" *''

'' **episode 1.04 "Grace" **episode 1.05 "Silent Kill" *''

'' **episode 1.06 " The Trap" **episode 1.07 " The Radio" *''

'' **episode 1.03 "

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" **episode 1.09 "

The Dreamscape "The Dreamscape" is the ninth List of Fringe episodes, episode of the Fringe season 1, first season of the American science fiction drama television program, television series ''Fringe (TV series), Fringe''. It centers on a Fringe investigatio ...

" **episode 1.11 "

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" **episode 1.15 " Inner Child" **episode 1.19 "

The Road Not Taken "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the ''Atlantic Monthly'', and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, '' Mountain Interval''. Its central theme is ...

" **episode 2.11 " Unearthed" **episode 3.15 " Subject 13" **episode 4.16 " Nothing As It Seems" *''

'' **episode 2.04 "The Ghost Within" **episode 2.18 "Children of Ghosts" **episode 3.07 "Unhappy Medium" **episode 3.09 "All Ghosts Lead to Grandview" **episode 3.14 "The Gravesitter" *''

The Good Fight ''The Good Fight'' is an American legal drama television series produced for CBS's streaming service CBS All Access (later Paramount+). It was the platform's first original scripted series. The series, created by Robert King, Michelle King ...

'' **episode 2.07 "Day 450" **episode 3.02 "The One Inspired by Roy Cohn" *''

'' **episode 1.22 "Hybristophilia" **episode 2.20 "Foreign Affairs" **episode 3.04 "Feeding the Rat" **episode 3.13 "Bitcoin for Dummies" **episode 3.14 "Another Ham Sandwich" **episode 4.05 "Waiting for the Knock" **episode 4.19 "The Wheels of Justice" **episode 5.07 "The Next Week" **episode 6.05 "Shiny Objects" *'' Hawaii Five-0'' **episode 1.11 "Palekaiko" **episode 2.19 "Kalele" **episode 3.02 "Kanalua" *''

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'' **episode 1.16 "The Fittest" *'' Lost'' **episode 3.18 " D.O.C." *''

Lost in Space ''Lost in Space'' is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968 on CBS. Lightly dramatic, sometimes comedic in tone, the series was inspired by the 1812 J ...

**episode 3.01 "Three Little Birds" *''

The Man in the High Castle ''The Man in the High Castle'' is an alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1962, which imagines a world in which the Axis Powers won World War II. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1 ...

'' **episode 4.08 "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" *''

Melrose Place ''Melrose Place'' is an American prime-time television soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of young adults living in an apartment complex in West Hollywood, ...

'' **episode 1.04 "Vine" *''

Miami Medical ''Miami Medical'' (formerly titled ''Miami Trauma'') is an American medical drama television series that aired on CBS from April 2 to July 2, 2010. It follows the professional and private lives of a team of trauma surgeons. The series was create ...

'' **episode 1.12 "Down to the Bone" *''

'' **episode 1.02 "

Out of the Past ''Out of the Past'' (billed in the United Kingdom as ''Build My Gallows High'') is a 1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Geoffrey Homes (Daniel ...

" **episode 1.04 "Fever" **episode 1.16 "

Sonata In music a sonata (; pl. ''sonate'') literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cantare'', "to sing"), a piece ''sung''. The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms until th ...

" *''

Mrs. Davis ''Mrs. Davis'' is an American science fiction comedy drama television limited series created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof for Peacock. The series stars Betty Gilpin as a nun using her faith to take on technology, and a supporting cast i ...

'' **episode 1.07 "Great Gatsby 2001: A Space Odyssey" *'' NCIS: New Orleans'' **episode 2.13 "Undocumented" *''

'' **episode 1.07 "Witness" **episode 1.21 "Many Happy Returns" **episode 2.07 "Critical" **episode 2.15 "Booked Solid" **episode 3.02 " Nothing to Hide" **episode 3.09 " The Crossing" **episode 3.21 "

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" **episode 4.03 "

Wingman A wingman (or wingmate) is the pilot of a secondary aircraft providing support or protection to a primary aircraft in a potentially dangerous situation, traditionally flying in formation to the side and slightly behind the primary craft. The t ...

" **episode 4.16 "

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" **episode 4.21 "

Asylum Asylum may refer to: Types of asylum * Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome * Benevolent asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute * Cities of Refuge, places of refuge in ancient Judea * ...

" **episode 5.10 "

The Day the World Went Away "The Day the World Went Away" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on July 20, 1999, as the lead single (music), single from their third studio album ''The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album), The Fragile'' (1999). ...

" *''

Revolution In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...

'' **episode 1.10 "Nobody's Fault But Mine" **episode 1.19 "Children of Men" **episode 2.05 "One Riot, One Ranger" **episode 2.17 "Why We Fight" *''

Rizzoli & Isles ''Rizzoli & Isles'' ( ; stylized in all lowercase) is an American crime drama television series starring Angie Harmon as Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as Maura Isles. Based on the series of ''Rizzoli & Isles'' novels by Tess Gerritsen, the ...

'' **episode 2.09 "Gone Daddy Gone" **episode 3.07 "Crazy for You" *'' See'' **episode 1.07 "The Lavender Road" *''

'' **episode 1.04 " The Eightfold Fence" **episode 1.05 " Broken to the Fist" **episode 1.09 " Crimson Sky" **episode 1.10 " A Dream of a Dream" *''

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'' **episode 1.04 "Without Their Maker" **episode 1.05 "Justice Never Boarded" *''

Stalker Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring t ...

'' **episode 1.08 "Skin" **episode 1.18 "The Woods" *''

The Terminal List ''The Terminal List'' is an American action thriller television series created by David DiGilio, based on Jack Carr (writer), Jack Carr's 2018 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of hi ...

'' **episode 1.04 "Detachment" **episode 1.07 "Extinction" *''

The Terror The Reign of Terror (French: ''La Terreur'', literally "The Terror") was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to ...

'' **episode 2.09 "Come and Get Me: **episode 2.10 "Into the Afterlife" *'' Truth Be Told'' **episode 2.07 "Lanterman-Petris-Short" **episode 3.07 "The Luxury in Self-Reproach" **episode 3.08 "Darkness Steals the Glory of Light" *'' Undercovers'' **episode 1.09 "A Night to Forget" *'' V'' **episode 1.03 "A Bright New Day" **episode 1.09 "Heretic's Fork" *''

Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-larg ...

'' **episode 1.13 "Road Trip" *'' The Walking Dead'' **episode 11.03 " Hunted" **episode 11.04 " Rendition" *''

Watchmen ''Watchmen'' is a comic book Limited series (comics), limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins (comics), John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 19 ...

'' **episode 1.09 " See How They Fly" *''

'' **episode 1.06 " The Adversary" **episode 1.07 "

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" **episode 2.10 " The Passenger"

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toye, Frederick E.O. 1967 births American television directors Television producers from California Living people Businesspeople from Los Angeles Primetime Emmy Award winners American visual effects artists University of California, Santa Barbara alumni American film editors