Rob Schiller
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Rob Schiller was an American television director and producer whose thirty-year career in the business yielded behind the camera roles on several of the most prominent situation comedy and soap operas of their day. His most high-profile credit was the Kevin James-starring hit about a working class New York couple "The King of Queens" (CBS 1998-2007), for which he directed more than three-quarters of the two hundred-plus episodes and served as executive producer. One of his earliest directing roles saw him awarded Daytime Emmy Awards in 1990 and 1991 for glitzy soap opera "Santa Barbara," while his cinematic directorial debut came in 2011 with horse-racing comedy "And They're Off."
Born in Buffalo, NY, Schiller worked as a child actor and began directing at the age of eleven. He followed a play about Harry Houdini with homemade super-8 films on his father's camera in his early teens and purchased a children's theatre company at the age of nineteen, which he ran as a successful commercial venture. Graduating from Buffalo State College, he entered the television industry as first a production supervisor and then a producer on the daytime soap opera "As the World Turns" (CBS 1956-2010) in 1984, before following his career to Los Angeles shortly afterwards. Among his other highest-profile directorial credits over the years were the sitcoms "Ellen" (ABC 1994-96), "Two and a Half Men" (CBS 2004-15) and "'Til Death" (Fox 2006-2010).
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