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Dean Parisot is an American film and television director. Parisot won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings which starred and was co-written (with Mike Armstrong) by comedian Steven Wright. Among his television credits are episodes of Monk, Northern Exposure and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Parisot is the son of Ellen James (née Lewis), a painter and art teacher, and Aldo Parisot, a well-known cellist and pedagogue. He was married to film editor Sally Menke until her death in 2010. Parisot is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and also took part in the Sundance Institute’s June Lab.
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Dean Parisot Biography / Wiki
| Name | Dean Parisot |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Wilton, Connecticut, United States |
| Date of Birth | 1952-07-06 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday |
Dean Parisot Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary | Self | 2019-11-26 | A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary…. |
| Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking | Himself | 2012-11-20 | Take a look at Tarantino’s career from the beginning, with interviews from co-workers, critics, stars and master filmmakers alike as well as a tribute… |
| Galaxy Quest: Historical Documents – The Story Of Galaxy Quest | Self | 2009-05-12 | 5 Part comprehensive featurette about the development and creation of the film and the greatest in-joke in Sci-Fi fan history. A fictional film based … |
Dean Parisot Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Galaxy Quest | Director | 1999-12-25 | For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA protector – “Commander Peter Quincy Taggart” (Tim Allen), “Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver) and “D… |
| Fun with Dick and Jane | Director | 2005-12-21 | After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they… |
| Home Fries | Director | 1998-11-25 | Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begin… |
| The Appointments of Dennis Jennings | Director | 1988-01-01 | Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an a… |
| Two Mikes Don’t Make a Wright | Director | 1993-04-05 | Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot and Steven Wright’s “The Appointments of Dennis Jennings” (1988), Michael Moore’s “Pets or Me… |
| RED 2 | Director | 2013-07-18 | Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device…. |
| Framed | Director | 1990-06-24 | A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it’s time for revenge…. |
| Steven Wright: Wicker Chairs and Gravity | Director | 1990-09-08 | A comedy special starring Steven Wright before an audience in Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre…. |
| ATF | Director | 1999-09-06 | In the wake of the tragic events at Waco, Texas where an armed conflict with armed militiamen broke out, agents of the federal government’s Alcohol, T… |
| Area 57 | Director | 2007-01-01 | A comedy about the employees for the U.S. government, who work in a remote facility in the Nevada desert, which houses an alien creature…. |
| Bill & Ted Face the Music | Director | 2020-08-27 | Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future war… |
| The Kathy & Mo Show: The Dark Side | Director | 1995-07-07 | A follow-up to their earlier special Parallel Lives, The Dark Side is a no-holds barred frank and funny look at religion, gay rights, and feminism…. |
| Tom Goes to the Bar | Director | 1985-10-17 | It’s business as usual at the bar. Suddenly, a man drops down from the top of the screen and hangs upside down at the bar. The bartender reacts as if … |
| Director | A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story “Fire in the Hole.” Leonard’s tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentuck… | ||
| Director | The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, s… | ||
| Director | Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corrup… | ||
| Director | Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department’s most b… | ||
| Director | L.A. Doctors is an American medical drama television series set in a Los Angeles practice. It ran on CBS during the 1998-99 season…. | ||
| Director | After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric … | ||
| Director | The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can’t seem to do anything right, and, by … | ||
| Director | ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened e… | ||
| Director | Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars… | ||
| Director | Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police depart… | ||
| Director | The Marshal is an American action-drama television series that aired on ABC for two brief seasons in 1995. The show starred Jeff Fahey as the title ch… | ||
| Director | The Tick is an American sitcom based on the character Tick from the comic book of the same name. It aired on Fox in late 2001 and was produced by Colu… | ||
| Director | Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He’s struggling to balance a challenging personal life with a… | ||
| Director | A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic†detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptati… | ||
| Director | Three “good girl” suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everythin… | ||
| Director | They’re ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way…. | ||
Dean Parisot Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| ATF | Executive Producer | 1999-09-06 | In the wake of the tragic events at Waco, Texas where an armed conflict with armed militiamen broke out, agents of the federal government’s Alcohol, T… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Steven Wright: Wicker Chairs and Gravity | Writer | 1990-09-08 | A comedy special starring Steven Wright before an audience in Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre…. |
| Still Life | Writer | 1990-08-08 | The alleys of downtown Manhattan become a modern killing field when corpses begin turning up, disfigured and gruesomely posed to appear as pieces of a… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| REO Speedwagon – Live Infidelity | Camera Operator | 1981-08-08 | REO Speedwagon – Live Infidelity (1981)… |
| Gemini | Camera Operator | 1982-02-08 | Filmed version of the hit Broadway show with two of the original stars. Set in the backyard of a blue collar South Philadelphia neighborhood early in … |
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