MP
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Film/television director and producer
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
1 July 1950(New York City)
Family:
Spouse(s):
Lisa Chess
The details
Biography
Introduction
Michael Pressman (born July 1, 1950) is an American director and producer of film and television.
Career
Some of the films he has directed are The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), Doctor Detroit (1983), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996).
For television, he has directed episodes of Picket Fences, The Practice, The Guardian, Boston Legal, The Closer, Law & Order, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy and other series.
He is an alumnus of Camp Rising Sun, The High School of Music & Art,) and studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.