Person
Robert Scheerer
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Dec 28, 1929
- Died
- Mar 3, 2018
- From
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
Robert Scheerer was an American film and television director, actor and producer. His most notable work includes directing Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He has received three Emmy Award nominations for directing Fame. He received an Emmy Award for Best Director in 1964 for The Danny Kaye Show. He made his Broadway debut in the musical Lend an Ear in 1948, appearing with Carol Channing, Gene Nelson, and won a Theatre World Award for his performance for outstanding debut. He also appeared as a dancer in the 1943 film Mister Big and many other films with the tap group "The Jivin' Jacks and Jills". Scheerer directed the 1980 crime-comedy film How to Beat the High Cost of Living, which starred Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James.
Credits
Margie
Robert Montgomery Presents
How's About It
Mister Big
This Is the Life
Give Out, Sisters
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
Top Man
The World's Greatest Athlete
A Happening in Central Park
Adam at Six A.M.
How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Hans Brinker
Target Risk
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
Happily Ever After
The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim