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Director

John Putch

Bio

JOHN PUTCH began his professional career as an actor at age five, in a summer theater run by his Father. He is the son of actress Jean Stapleton and the late Producer/Director William H. Putch. He has had a respectable television and film acting career and now enjoys directing. Putch’s award winning film called Mojave Phone Booth, which stars, Annabeth Gish, Steve Guttenberg, Christine Elise McCarthy, Robert Romanus, David DeLuise and Missi Pyle, has racked up 50 official film festival selections and 15 top awards. The second in the series of super indie films was shot in 2008 in Putch’s home state of Pennsylvania. A comedy entitled Route 30, starring Dana Delany, Curtis Armstrong, David DeLuise and Kevin Rahm. Putch toured the film festivals with Route 30. His feature film, Valerie Flake, premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the Best Female Lead category. The film aired on Showtime Network. Putch also directed Pursuit of Happiness, starring indie favorites Frank Whaley & Annabeth. His multi-award winning Bachelorman, shot on Hi-Def 24P, starring David Deluise and Missi Pyle garnered 33 film festival honors including 12 audience awards for Best Feature. NBC’s The Poseidon Adventure took Putch to South Africa to shoot the four hour adventure mini-series which starred; Bryan Brown, Rutger Hauer, Steve Guttenberg, C. Thomas Howell and Adam Baldwin. For the Hallmark Channel, Putch directed the television movies A Time to Remember, starring Doris Roberts, Dana Delany and Louise Fletcher, Where There’s a Will, starring Marion Ross, Frank Whaley and Keith Carradine and Murder 101, starring Dick Van Dyke. Additional TV directing credits include: NBC’s My Name is Earl, ABC’s Ugly Betty, NBC’s Scrubs, WB’s Grounded for Life and FX’ Son of the Beach.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.