Linda Day Varnum (born Linda Gail Brickner; August 12, 1938 – October 23, 2009)[ Hollywood Reporter obituary ] was an American television director, working primarily in situation comedy.
Early and personal life
Day was born Linda Gail Brickner on August 12, 1938,
in Los Angeles, the daughter of Roy Brickner, a film editor. At the age of 67, she married Steve Varnum in
Texas.
She died on October 23, 2009, aged 71, after battling
leukemia and
breast cancer in Georgetown, Texas.
[ Obituary, chicagotribune.com. Accessed 24 June 2023.][ Obituary, backstage.com. Accessed 24 June 2023.]
Career
Day started as a script supervisor on the
television film Victory at Entebbe, and on the
soap opera parody
Soap. She became an associate director for
WKRP in Cincinnati in 1978, and began directing episodes of the show in 1980. Linda Day went on to direct a number of successful
in the 1980s
and '90s, including the pilot of
Married With Children and 32 more episodes of the show.
Day also directed four episodes of the soap opera
Dallas during what would become the show's "dream season" in 1985–86, when the events of the entire season were explained away as being a character's dream.
In addition to a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series nomination,
Selected filmography
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Good Morning, Miami (2003)
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The Parkers (1999)
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Working (1997)
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996)
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Clueless (1996)
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Boston Common (1996)
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The Single Guy (1995)
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Simon (1995)
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The Crew (1995)
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The Parent 'Hood (1995)
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Unhappily Ever After (1995)
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The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (1994)
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Models Inc. (1994)
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The Nanny (1993)
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Thea (1993)
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Mad About You (1992)
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Top of the Heap (1991)
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Major Dad (1989)
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Married... with Children (1987)
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Throb (1986)
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Small Wonder (1985)
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It's Your Move (1984)
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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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Kate & Allie (1984)
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Newhart (1983)
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St. Elsewhere (1982)
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Gimme a Break! (1981)
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Knots Landing (1979)
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Archie Bunker's Place (1979)
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Benson (1979)
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Diff'rent Strokes (1978)
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WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)
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Dallas (1978)
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Soap (1977)
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Alice (1976)
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Insight (1960)
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