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Jon Amiel (born 20 May 1948) is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series The Singing Detective (1986), he went on to direct films, including Sommersby (1993), Copycat (1995), Entrapment (1999), The Core (2003) and Creation (2009).
After having worked as a story editor for the BBC, he directed the documentary The Silent Twins, and was chosen to direct the Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective, for which he was BAFTA nominated. He made his feature film debut in 1989 with Queen of Hearts.
One of his most notable films is 1993's romantic drama Sommersby, starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $140 million worldwide.
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TV series
| 1982 | BBC2 Playhouse | 2 episodes | ||
| 1982–1983 | Play for Today | 2 episodes | ||
| 1985 | Tandoori Nights | 5 episodes | ||
| 1986 | Screen Two | Episode "The Silent Twins" | ||
| The Singing Detective | Miniseries | |||
| 1988 | The Storyteller | Episode "The Luck Child" | ||
| 2005 | Eyes | Episode "Pilot" | ||
| Reunion | Episode "1986" | |||
| 2007 | The Wedding Bells | Episode "For Whom the Bells Toll" | ||
| 2008 | The Tudors | 2 episodes | ||
| 2012–2013 | The Borgias | 4 episodes | ||
| 2013 | Twisted | Episode "Pilot" | ||
| 2013–2015 | Once Upon a Time | 2 episodes | ||
| 2014 | Halt and Catch Fire | Episode "Giant" | ||
| 2015 | The Astronaut Wives Club | 2 episodes | ||
| Hemlock Grove | Episode "Todos Santos" (Credited as "Jonathan Amiel") | |||
| Wicked City | Episode "Heat Wave" | |||
| 2015–2016 | Aquarius | 2 episodes | ||
| 2016 | Marco Polo | 2 episodes | ||
| 2016–2017 | Outsiders | 6 episodes | ||
| 2017 | Ice | Episode "The Cut" | ||
| Wisdom of the Crowd | Episode "Machine Learning" | |||
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Episode "Matters of Life and Death" | ||
| 2019 | Proven Innocent | Episode "Shaken" | ||
| Carnival Row | 2 episodes | |||
| 2020 | Spinning Out | 2 episodes | ||
| Episode "Original Sin" | ||||
| 2021 | American Gods | Episode "A Winter's Tale" | ||
| 2022 | The Cleaning Lady | Episode "The Lion's Den" | ||
| The Walking Dead | 2 episodes |
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