Bucksey, Colin

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BUCKSEY, Colin

PERSONAL

Career:

Director.

Awards, Honors:

Television Award nomination (with others), British Academy of Film and Television Arts, best children's program, entertainment/drama category, 1983, for Educating Marmalade; Best Film Award nomination, Mystfest, 1986, for The McGuffin.

CREDITS

Television Director; Series:

Educating Marmalade, Independent Television, c. 1981–83.

Lexx (also known as Lexx–The Dark Zone and Lexx: The Series), Space, multiple episodes, 2001–2002.

Starhunter 2300 (also known as Starhunter), syndicated, multiple episodes, 2003–2004.

Television Director; Miniseries:

"Horsenap," The Racing Game (also known as The Racing Game, Series II), Yorkshire Television, 1979, also PBS, 1981.

Television Director; Movies:

Blue Money, Independent Television, 1982.

Curiosity Kills, USA Network, 1990.

Midnight's Child, Lifetime, 1992.

Notorious, Lifetime, 1992.

Terror in the Night, CBS, 1994.

Kidnapping in the Family, ABC, 1996.

September (also known as Rosamunde Pilcher's September), Showtime, 1996.

When Secrets Kill, ABC, 1997.

Nightmare Street, ABC, 1998.

Television Director; Specials:

The After–Dinner Joke (also known as Play for Today: The After–Dinner Joke), BBC, 1978.

The Falklands Factor (also known as Play for Today: The Falklands Factor), BBC, 1983.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Departures," Z Cars, BBC, 1978.

"Dead Man's Kit," Armchair Thriller, Thames Television, 1980.

"High Tide," Armchair Thriller, Thames Television, 1980.

Call Me Mister, BBC, 1986.

"Death and the Lady," Miami Vice, NBC, 1987.

"Joker," The Hitchhiker (also known as Le voyageur), HBO, 1987.

"Like a Hurricane," Miami Vice, NBC, 1987.

"Secret Ingredient," The Hitchhiker (also known as Le voyageur), HBO, 1987.

"A Rock and a Hard Place," Miami Vice, NBC, 1988.

"End of Innocence," Midnight Caller, NBC, c. 1988.

"Watching Me, Watching You," Midnight Caller, NBC, c. 1988.

"Victim of Circumstance," Miami Vice, NBC, 1989.

"Aftermath," DEA, Fox, 1990.

"Jumping the Trampoline," DEA, Fox, 1990.

"Zero Sum Game," DEA, Fox, 1991.

"Headcase," Anna Lee, Independent Television, 1993.

"Miracle Every Week," Bergerac, BBC, 1993.

"Double Duty," Space Precinct, syndicated, 1994.

"Day One/Another Day, Another Story," Live Shot, UPN, 1995.

"The Javelin Catcher," Nash Bridges (also known as Bridges), CBS, 1996.

"Obsession," Sliders, Fox, 1996.

"Return to Camelot," The New Adventures of Robin Hood, TNT, 1997.

"The Assassin," The New Adventures of Robin Hood, TNT, 1998.

"Sarcophagus," Space Island One, [Great Britain] and Chum Television (Canada), 1998.

"Choice Cuts," CI5: The New Professionals, [Great Britain], 1999.

"Hide and Seek," Nash Bridges (also known as Bridges), CBS, 1999.

"Orbit," CI5: The New Professionals, [Great Britain], 1999.

"No More Heroes," Harbour Lights, BBC–2, 2000.

"Choices," Holby City, BBC, 2001.

"Ghost Squad," In Deep, BBC, 2001.

"Runaway," Holby City, BBC, 2001.

"Jeckylls," In Deep, BBC, 2002.

"Untouched," In Deep, BBC, 2002.

"End of the Line," Holby City, BBC, 2003.

"Trick or Treat," Holby City, BBC, 2003.

Also directed episodes of Crime Story, NBC; Feds, CBS; Hazell, Thames Television; Supply & Demand, Independent Television; Urban Gothic, Five (England) and Bravo Network Canada; and Wiseguy, CBS.

Film Director:

The McGuffin, WW Entertainment, 1985.

Dealers, Skouras Pictures, 1989.

Death Merchants, 1991.

Falling Through, Alliance Atlantis Communications, 2000.

Film Work; Other:

Focus puller, The Lifetaker, Onyx Films Production, 1975.

Film Appearances:

CID officer, Rude Boy, Atlantic Releasing Corporation, 1980.

Stage Director:

Censored Scenes from King Kong (musical), Open Space Theatre, beginning 1978 later Princess Theatre, New York City, 1980.