Guy Ferland
Born: 18th February 1966
Episodes Broadcast: 2011
Guy Ferland was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in the United States, and
was inspired to pursue a career as a filmmaker after watching Alfred
Hitchcock's 1946 classic Notorious. He attended the School of
Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California, from
which he graduated in 1988. Almost immediately, Ferland was hired as an
assistant to director Joel Schumacher; his first credit came on the 1989
romantic comedy Cousins, and they also worked together on movies
like Flatliners and Falling Down. For Schumacher's 1994
film The Client, Ferland was promoted to associate producer. He
then tackled his first assignment as a director: the 1995 Alicia
Silverstone thriller The Babysitter, which he also co-wrote.
Ferland started to move into television in the late Nineties, initially
directing the telefilm Our Guys: Outrage At Glen Ridge.
Although he would make two more movies -- the critically-acclaimed
Bang Bang You're Dead and the romance sequel Dirty Dancing:
Havana Nights -- television became Ferland's primary medium after
the turn of the century, with work on shows like The Shield,
Prison Break, Saving Grace and Sons Of Anarchy. In
2011, he directed three episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off
Torchwood, which was then being primarily made in the United
States as part of a co-production arrangement between the BBC and the
American network Starz. Amongst Ferland's other credits during the 2010s
were The Walking Dead, SWAT, Yellowstone and more
than twenty episodes of the Sherlock Holmes procedural
Elementary. He also earned credits as both a director and a
co-executive producer on Into The Badlands. During the Twenties,
Ferland directed for programmes such as Mayor Of Kingstown,
Chicago PD and Locke & Key.
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