Charles McDougall

Charles McDougall is a British Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning director.

Biography

McDougall has directed for popular television series which include the pilot episode of ABC's Desperate Housewives (which includes the unaired pilot as well). McDougall has also directed episodes of Queer as Folk on Channel 4 and Sex and the City on HBO. McDougall directed the first two episodes of the US TV Series The Tudors as well as an episode of Good Behavior. He won an Emmy for Best Directing for a Comedy Series for his work on Desperate Housewives.

McDougall was an executive producer and director for the pilot episode of The Good Wife. Penned by Robert King and Michelle King (In Justice) the legal drama focuses on a politician's wife (Julianna Margulies) who carves out her own niche as a defense attorney. The Kings and McDougall are executive producing with Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and David Zucker.^[1]^[2]

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Notes
1992	Dogs Playing Poker	Segment of Inside Out III
	Put Asunder	Segments of Inside Out IV
	Save the Wetlands	Segments of Inside Out IV
1999	Steal Away	Segment of Tube Tales
2005	Desperate Housewives: Oprah Winfrey Is the New Neighbor

Feature film

Arrivederci Millwall (1990)
Heart (1999)
Ana (2020)

Television

TV movie

Hillsborough (1996)
Rules of Engagement (1997)
Sunday (2002)
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)
Surrender, Dorothy (2006)
Backyards & Bullets (2007) (Also executive producer)
Good Behavior (2008)
Shelter (TBA) (Also executive producer)

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer	Notes
1991	Casualty	Yes	No	Episode "Dangerous Games"
1992	Between the Lines	Yes	No	3 episodes
1994	99-1	Yes	No	2 episodes
1995	Cracker	Yes	No	2 episodes
1999	Queer as Folk	Yes	No	4 episodes; Co-creator
2000	Wonderland	Yes	No	Episode "20/20 Hindsight"
2000–2002	Sex and the City	Yes	No	6 episodes
2002	Push, Nevada	Yes	No	Episode "The Black Box"
2003	Keen Eddie	Yes	No	Episode "Achtung Baby"
2004	Desperate Housewives	Yes	No	Episode "Pilot"
2005–2012	The Office	Yes	No	8 episodes
2006	Big Love	Yes	No	2 episodes
2007	The Tudors	Yes	Yes	2 episodes
2007	Big Shots	Yes	No	Episode "Pilot"
2009	The Good Wife	Yes	Yes	2 episodes
2009–2011	Parks and Recreation	Yes	No	Episodes "Kaboom" and "Pawnee Rangers"
2011	The Chicago Code	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot"
2012–2013	The Mindy Project	Yes	Yes	3 episodes
2013	House of Cards	Yes	No	Episode "Chapter 7" and "Chapter 8"
2014	Resurrection	Yes	Yes	Episode "The Returned"
2015	Mad Dogs	Yes	Yes	Episode "Pilot"
2015	Secrets and Lies	Yes	Yes	Episode "The Trail"
2016	The Secret Agent	Yes	No	3 episodes
2019	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Yes	No	2 episodes
2022	Julia	Yes	No	Episode: "Omelette"
2023	Three Little Birds	Yes	No	2 episodes

References

^ https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090306/people_nm/us_margulies ^{[dead link]}
^ Nellie Andreeva (February 8, 2009). "CBS picks up five pilots". Reuters/Hollywood Reporter.

External links

Charles McDougall at IMDb

[1] ttps://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090306/people_nm/us_margulies ^{[dead link]}

[2] Nellie Andreeva (February 8, 2009). "CBS picks up five pilots". Reuters/Hollywood Reporter.

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v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
1950s	Peter Tewksbury for "Medal for Margaret" (1959)
1960s	Ralph Levy & Bud Yorkin for The Jack Benny Show (1960) Sheldon Leonard for The Danny Thomas Show (1961) Nat Hiken for Car 54, Where Are You? (1962) John Rich for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1963) Jerry Paris for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964) No Award (1965) William Asher for Bewitched (1966) James Frawley for "Royal Flush" (1967) Bruce Bilson for "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye" (1968) Greg Garrison for "October 17, 1968" (1969)
1970s	Dwight Hemion for "The Sound of Burt Bacharach" (1970) Jay Sandrich for "Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists" (1971) John Rich for "Sammy's Visit" (1972) Jay Sandrich for "It's Whether You Win or Lose" (1973) Jackie Cooper for "Carry On, Hawkeye" (1974) Gene Reynolds for "O.R." (1975) Gene Reynolds for "Welcome to Korea" (1976) Alan Alda for "Dear Sigmund" (1977) Paul Bogart for "Edith's 50th Birthday" (1978) Noam Pitlik for "The Harris Incident" (1979)
1980s	James Burrows for "Louie and the Nice Girl" (1980) James Burrows for "Elaine's Strange Triangle" (1981) Alan Rafkin for "Barbara's Crisis" (1982) James Burrows for "Showdown: Part 2" (1983) Bill Persky for "A Very Loud Family" (1984) Jay Sandrich for "The Younger Woman" (1985) Jay Sandrich for "Denise's Friend" (1986) Terry Hughes for "Isn't It Romantic?" (1987) Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot (Hooperman)" (1988) Peter Baldwin for "Our Miss White" (1989)
1990s	Michael Dinner for "Good-bye" (1990) James Burrows for "Woody Interruptus" (1991) Barnet Kellman for "Birth 101" (1992) Betty Thomas for "For Peter's Sake" (1993) James Burrows for "The Good Son" (1994) David Lee for "The Matchmaker" (1995) Michael Lembeck for "The One After the Superbowl" (1996) David Lee for "To Kill a Talking Bird" (1997) Todd Holland for "Flip" (1998) Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (Sports Night) (1999)
2000s	Todd Holland for "Pilot" (Malcolm in the Middle) (2000) Todd Holland for "Bowling" (2001) Michael Patrick King for "The Real Me" (2002) Robert B. Weide for "Krazee-Eyez Killa" (2003) Anthony and Joe Russo for "Pilot" (Arrested Development) (2004) Charles McDougall for "Pilot" (Desperate Housewives) (2005) Marc Buckland for "Pilot" (My Name Is Earl) (2006) Richard Shepard for "Pilot" (Ugly Betty) (2007) Barry Sonnenfeld for "Pie-lette" (2008) Jeffrey Blitz for "Stress Relief" (2009)
2010s	Ryan Murphy for "Pilot" (Glee) (2010) Michael Spiller for "Halloween" (2011) Steven Levitan for "Baby on Board" (2012) Gail Mancuso for "Arrested" (2013) Gail Mancuso for "Las Vegas" (2014) Joey Soloway for "Best New Girl" (2015) Joey Soloway for "Man on the Land" (2016) Donald Glover for "B.A.N." (2017) Amy Sherman-Palladino for "Pilot" (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) (2018) Harry Bradbeer for "Episode 1" (2019)
2020s	Andrew Cividino and Dan Levy for "Happy Ending" (2020) Lucia Aniello for "There Is No Line" (2021) MJ Delaney for "No Weddings and a Funeral" (2022) Christopher Storer for "Review" (2023)

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