Leslie Libman is an American television director. She also directed commercials and

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Television work

Since 1995 she works primarily as a TV director on a number of

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, most notably directing multiple episodes of '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', '' The 4400'' and ''

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''. Other series include ''

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'', '' Oz'' and '' The Shield''. For MTV she created and directed with her late husband, Larry Williams, ''Out of Order'', a series of six original short films. She co-directed with Larry Williams two television movies - in 1997 the HBO TV movie '' Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing'' (starring Peter Gallagher and Art Malik) and the 1998 TV adaptation of

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's '' Brave New World'' (again starring Gallagher with Leonard Nimoy) for the

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. In 2003 she directed the ABC TV movie ''The Extreme Team'' (aka ''The X-Team'').

Other work

Before moving to television work, Libman and Williams formed a directing team creating commercialsLeslie Libman, Director - Commercials
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, Christian Dior,

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, Panasonic and

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) and music clipsLeslie Libman, Director - Music videos
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and more). Without Williams, she directed music videos for The Bangles,

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, Michael McDonald, Roy Orbison, and Rod Stewart and others.

Filmography

Television

Director

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Libman, Leslie Living people American television directors American music video directors American women television directors Television commercial directors Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)