Jace Alexander


Biography

A prolific television director, Jace Alexander has helmed episodes of many major dramas and comedies. Starting out on the police procedurals "Law & Order" and "New York Undercover," Alexander also directed episodes of the fantasy show "Xena: Warrior Princess" and the legal comedy "Ally McBeal." In 2004, he began helming installments of the Denis Leary-starring dramedy "Rescue Me," and, i...

Biography

A prolific television director, Jace Alexander has helmed episodes of many major dramas and comedies. Starting out on the police procedurals "Law & Order" and "New York Undercover," Alexander also directed episodes of the fantasy show "Xena: Warrior Princess" and the legal comedy "Ally McBeal." In 2004, he began helming installments of the Denis Leary-starring dramedy "Rescue Me," and, in 2007, he directed the pilot of the hit action series "Burn Notice." Over the years, Alexander frequently returned to "Law & Order," working on more than 30 episodes between 1994 and 2005. In 2012, he became the go-to director for the MTV sitcom "I Just Want My Pants Back."

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Movie Clip

La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Spoil Me, Darling Some time into their affair, far-from-wealthy bureaucrat LeGrand (Michel Simon) ends an evening with his mistress Lulu (Janie Parèse), sending her up to the apartment he pays for, furnished with his own paintings, still unaware that she’s giving his money to her boyfriend and de facto pimp Dèdè (Georges Flamant), in Jean Renoir’s La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.
La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Men Are Such Bores Jean Renoir directing his second sound feature, at a Paris art-scene salon, prostitute Lulu (Janie Parèse), who’s posing as fictional Clara, a suddenly popular painter, in a dancing-fight with her pimp-partner Dèdè (Georges Flamant) works with cohorts Alexandre Rignault, Pierre Desty and Lucien Mancini to schmooze a new customer (Jean Gehret), in La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.
La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Get Your Claws In This Guy From director Jean Renoir, shooting on location in Paris, the first scene (following an earlier introduction) for Lulu (Janie Marèse) and Dèdè (Georges Flamant), meeting LeGrand (Michel Simon), the notoriously dull guy who chose not to attend the after-party following a company banquet, early in La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.
La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Open, A Stirring Social Drama The opening credits to Jean Renoir’s sensational second sound feature (he first made a quick farcical comedy, to show producers his ability with the new medium), then a framing device, using puppets to introduce his stars, Michel Simon, Janie Marese and Georges Flamant, in La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.

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