Dean Parisot

Template:Short description Template:Unreferenced category Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Aldo Luis "Dean" Parisot (born July 6, 1952) is an American film and television director.

Among his television credits are episodes of Monk (including the two-hour pilot "Mr. Monk and the Candidate"), Northern Exposure and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Biography

Parisot was born in Wilton, Connecticut, to Ellen James (née Lewis), a painter and art teacher, and Aldo Parisot, a Brazilian-born cellist and pedagogue.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He took part in the Sundance Institute's June Lab.

In 2012, he was hired to direct the third installment of the Bill & Ted franchise.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The film, Bill & Ted Face the Music, was released on August 28, 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Parisot was married to film editor Sally Menke until her death in 2010; they had two children.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, which was co-written by and starred comedian Steven Wright, with whom he shares the award.

Filmography

Short film

• Tom Goes to the Bar (1985)
• The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1988)
• The Last Seat (1995)

Feature film

Year	Title	Distribution
1998	Home Fries	Warner Bros.
1999	Galaxy Quest	DreamWorks Pictures
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane	Sony Pictures Releasing
2013	Red 2	Summit Entertainment
2020	Bill & Ted Face the Music	United Artists Releasing

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer
1990	Framed	Template:Yes	Template:No
1995	The Kathy & Mo Show: The Dark Side	Template:Yes	Template:No
	The Conversation	Template:Yes	Template:No
1999	A.T.F.	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2007	Area 57	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2009	See Kate Run	Template:Yes	Template:No

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1988–1990	Reading Rainbow	Template:Yes	Template:No	5 episodes
1990	Steven Wright: Wicker Chairs and Gravity	Template:Yes	Template:No	TV special; Also writer
1991	Get a Life	Template:Yes	Template:No	3 episodes
1992	Great Scott!	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Book Crook"
1992–1993	Northern Exposure	Template:Yes	Template:No	3 episodes
1993	Bakersfield P.D.	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Directed 3 episodes
1995	Under Suspicion	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Kinky Murder"
	The Marshal	Template:Yes	Template:No	4 episodes
	ER	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "What Life?"
1998	L.A. Doctors	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Under the Radar"
2001	The Job	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Pilot"
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Shaq"
2002	The Tick	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Arthur, Interrupted"
2002–2009	Monk	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episodes "Mr. Monk and the Candidate" and "Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu"
2010	The Deep End	Template:Yes	Template:No	Unaired pilot
2010–2011	The Good Wife	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episodes "Double Jeopardy" and "Affairs of State"
2011	Modern Family	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Regrets Only"
2012–2015	Justified	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episodes "The Devil You Know", "Slaughterhouse", "Good Intentions" and "Cash Game"
2015	Masters of Sex	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Three's a Crowd"
2015–2016	Grace and Frankie	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episodes "The Vows" and "The Wish"
2016	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Directed episodes "Horizons" and "Lost & Found"
2017	Santa Clarita Diet	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Baka, Bile and Baseball Bats"
2018–2019	Good Girls	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Directed 4 episodes

External links

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• Biography
• Dean Parisot at filmbug

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