Don Roy King
Don Roy King is an American television director. He has been the director for Saturday Night Live since 2006.[1] He is the recipient of 9 Emmy awards and 17 nominations. His work on Saturday Night Live has earned him seven Primetime Emmys[2] and eleven nominations. King has also been nominated for five Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Individual Direction For A Variety Show. He won in 1977 for The Mike Douglas Show.[3] In 1991, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design for his work on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.[4]
He has been nominated for eleven Directors Guild of America awards,[5] which he won in 2014, 2016 and 2017.[6] His other directing work includes Survivor (including the live Survivor finales on CBS), The Early Show, and The Mike Douglas Show. He has directed morning shows at CBS and ABC.[7]
King is also the creative director of Broadway Worldwide which brings theatrical events to theaters. The company has produced Smokey Joe's Cafe; Putting It Together with Carol Burnett; Jekyll & Hyde and Memphis, all directed by King. He also directed a big screen taping of Broadway's Romeo and Juliet with Orlando Bloom in 2013.
Career
In 2001 King ended a fourteen-year run as the creative director of CBS News and director/senior producer for The Early Show and CBS This Morning. Other CBS credits include the live finale shows of the first four Survivor series, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, Bob Simon: Back to Baghdad, The Smithsonian Anniversary Specials, Camera Three, and daytime Winter Olympics coverage in France, Norway and Japan.
After leaving CBS, he directed the network pool coverage of the first September 11 Memorial Service at Ground Zero in Manhattan. In addition, he directed numerous talk show pilots, including The Robin Quivers Show, Fergie, and Day to Day with Rachael Ray. He periodically sits in as the director of The View on ABC.
For over six years King directed Good Morning America for ABC. He also directed numerous Barbara Walters Specials and two seasons of the variety series, Kids Are People Too.
Other network credits include: Judgment Night: DNA for Fox; America Alive, a daytime series for NBC; and A War Called Peace for PBS.
King has won three other Emmys for his work – one for directing The Mike Douglas Show; another for producing and directing Toys on the Town, a musical special with Shields and Yarnell; and the third for heading the design team that revamped the graphic look of CBS News. He has also been nominated for twenty-one Emmys as a writer, producer and director. Other recognition includes two Ohio State Awards, an American Bar Association Award, a San Francisco State Award, a New York Public Relations Award and three Golden Quills.
King also has a broad theatrical background; and his television credits include the original cast versions of the Broadway musicals, Tintypes and The Me Nobody Knows. Other theatrical productions for television include Monteith and Rand on Broadway, The Passion of Dracula, and Richiardi's Chamber of Horrors, a magic special. He played Daybreak director Merv in the Harrison Ford big-screen comedy, Morning Glory. He also served as the 2nd unit director and television consultant on that movie.
His other credits range from telethons to sports: concerts for MTV, including its first two New Year's Eve parties; The Easter Seal Telethon; two seasons of the syndicated series, Comedy Tonight; The Charles Perez Show, the pilot for Paramount's Entertainment Tonight; The David Susskind Show; An All-Star Tribute to Jazz with George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton; WFL Football and Pittsburgh Pirate Baseball.
As a producer, director, writer and composer, King has developed a variety of series, specials, documentaries and musicals. Many of these were produced for local stations including WCBS and WNEW, New York; KDKA, Pittsburgh; KGSC, San Jose, California; and WPSX, State College, Pennsylvania.[8]
Filmography
Director:
2017
Saturday Night Live (2006-Current) (TV Series)
Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday
2016
A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special: 2016 (TV Movie)
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving Special (TV Movie)
The 2016 SNL Election Special (TV Movie)
Goodnight, Sweet Prince (TV Special)
2015
Hollywood Game Night (TV Series) (1 episode)
Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special (TV Special)
An SNL Valentine (TV Special) (clips)
SNL's NFL Saturday (TV Movie) (clips)
2014
Saturday Night Live: Christmas Special (TV Special) (clips)
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving Special (TV Special) (clips)
SNL Sports Spectacular (TV Movie)
Saturday Night Live: Best of This Season (TV Special)
2013
Saturday Night Live: Christmas (TV Special)
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving (TV Special)
Saturday Night Live: Halloween (TV Special)
2011
SNL Christmas (TV Special) (archive footage) 2000-2011
Survivor (TV Series) (8 episodes)
2010
The Women of SNL (TV Movie) (lead director)
Saturday Night Live Presents: Sports All-Stars (TV Special) (also archive footage)
2009
Saturday Night Live Just Commercials (TV Movie) (segment director)
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas (TV Movie)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler (TV Special)
Saturday Night Live Sports Extra '09 (TV Special) (archive footage)
2008
The Early Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08 (TV Special)
Criss Angel Mindfreak (TV Series) (1 episode)
2005
Naomi's New Morning (TV Series)
2002
Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller (TV Special)
2001
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (TV Movie)
2000
Putting It Together (TV Movie)
1987
The Howard Stern Show (TV Series) (5 episodes)
1977-1980
Kids Are People, Too (TV Series) (1978-1980)
America Alive! (TV Series)
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Actor:
2011
- Dad
2010
Morning Glory
- Merv (Director of Daybreak)
Producer:
2001
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (TV Special)
1998
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (TV Special)
Recognition
Awards and nominations
- 1976, nominated for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Director for The Mike Douglas Show
- 1977, won Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Director for The Mike Douglas Show
- 1978, nominated for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Director for The Mike Douglas Show
- 1979, nominated for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Director for America Alive!
- 1981, nominated for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming for Kids Are People Too
- 1991, nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.[4]
- 1991, won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.[4]
- 2007, nominated for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Program for Saturday Night Live
- 2007, nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Program for Saturday Night Live
- 2008, nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Program for Saturday Night Live
- 2009, nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Program for Saturday Night Live
- 2009, nominated for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Series for Saturday Night Live
- 2010, won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Series for Saturday Night Live[9]
- 2010, nominated for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Program for Saturday Night Live
- 2013, won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety Series for Saturday Night Live
- 2014, won DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming for Saturday Night Live
- 2016, nominated for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming for Saturday Night Live
- 2016, nominated for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming for Saturday Night Live
- 2016, won DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Specials for Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
- 2017, nominated for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming for Saturday Night Live
- 2017, won DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming for Saturday Night Live, "Host: Dave Chappelle"[6]
- 2017, nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Program for Saturday Night Live, "Host: Jimmy Fallon"
- 2017, won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety Series for Saturday Night Live, "Host: Jimmy Fallon"
- 2018, won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety Series for Saturday Night Live, "Host: Donald Glover"
References
- ↑ "> Saturday Night Live". NBC.com. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ↑ emmys.com. www.emmys.com http://www.emmys.com/bios/don-roy-king. Retrieved 18 January 2017. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Outstanding Individual Direction For A Variety Show - Google Search". g.co. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
- 1 2 3 "13TH ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED BY TilE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES" (PDF). emmyonline.com/. July 23, 1991.
- ↑ Atkins, Lucas. "Director's Guild Don Roy King". dga.org. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- 1 2 "69th Annual DGA Awards". www.dga.org. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ↑ Carter, Bill (2006-09-21). "Bowing to Budget Cuts at NBC, 'Saturday Night Live' Pares Five Performers". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ↑ "Don Roy King". Penn State Forum. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ↑ Fienberg, Daniel (2010-08-21). "The Pacific, Betty White, Neil Patrick Harris win Creative Arts Emmys". Hitfix.com. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
External links
- Don Roy King on IMDb
- Don Roy King interviewed on Conversations from Penn State
- Don Roy King at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
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- ↑ Field, Jennifer. "Don Roy King". net-worths.org. Retrieved 18 January 2017.