Director, producer, and author, James L. Conway, joins me on the show today. We discuss his television directing career including shows like MacGyver, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: ENT, Smallville, Charmed, The Magicians, and many more. I ask James about storytelling, directing, writing, and more. We talk about his time working on various Star Trek shows and how he was a fan of the original series. The discussion ranges from his television work into novel writing, and more.
James L. Conway Bio and Links
James has worked extensively as a writer, producer, director, studio executive and award-winning photographer.
James’s recent directing credits include The Magicians, The Orville, Supernatural, Smallville, Psych and Charmed.
His 30-year directing career includes a wide range of episodic shows, including the pilot for Star Trek: Enterprise as well as the pilot, University Hospital.
Conway’s also directed episodes of Charmed, Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation as well as episodes of such series as Kindred: the Embraced, Legend, Paradise, Tour of Duty, MacGyver, Hunter, Hotel and Matt Houston
James’s movie-of-the-week directing credits include many genres. Westerns, The Last of the Mohicans and The Rocky Mountain Race; the 8 ½ hour biblical miniseries Greatest Heroes of the Bible; horror, The Fall of the House of Usher; comedy, The Nashville Grab and sci-fi, Earthbound.
He also directed two feature films, the cult favorite The Boogens and Hangar 18.
James’s writing and producing credits include four seasons as the Co-Executive Producer of Charmed. He was also writer and Co-Executive Producer on Burke’s Law (which he developed), writer and Executive Producer of University Hospital (which he co-created) and writer and Supervising Producer on Bodies of Evidence (which he co-created). Conway also served as writer and Supervising Producer on the CBS Western Paradise. Conway won the Western Writers of America SPUR AWARD for Best Television Screenplay for an episode of Paradise. James also wrote and produced the cop show Hollywood Beat and the detective series Matt Houston.
Conway has also produced a number of movies-for-television, including Jailbirds, Harry’s Hong Kong and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (for which he received an Emmy nomination).
James also served six years as Executive Vice President of Spelling Television where he worked on over twenty TV series including such hits as 90210, Melrose Place and 7th Heaven.
James has written three novels, Dead and Not So Buried, Sexy Babe and In Cold Blonde.
James lives in Los Angeles. He is married and has two daughters.
- Official Website: https://jameslconway.com/
- Director Reel Video
- James L. Conway IMDb Page
- James’ Hollywood Mystery Novels
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jameslconway