Roger Young

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Roger E Young born 13 May 1942 is an American TV and film director He won an Emmy Award in 1980 in Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for Lou Grant episode Cop He was born in Champaign Illinois He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois He worked as a producerdirector at Channel 6 the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis IN Then moved to Chicago and became a producer for FooteCone amp Belding Advertising where he produced national commercials Later he moved to directing commercials for the production company of LippertSaviano and then Topel amp Associates Finally he opened his own production company Young amp Company producing and directing commercials In 1977 he moved to Los Angeles and was hired as Associate Producer on a television film entitled Something for Joey This led to being offered Associate Producer of Lou Grant the television series starring Ed Asner Gene Reynolds Executive Producer of the show became Mr Youngs mentor and in the second season Mr Young was given the opportunity to direct an episode He won an Emmy and two Directors Guild Awards for directing episodes of the series He then directed the twohour pilot of Magnum PI and many other pilots all but one of them being picked up for series Mr Young then began to concentrate on long form television two hour films and miniseries Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Young director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia