Jack Bender
- For other uses, see John Bender.
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Bender at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011.
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Born | September 25, 1949 |
Ethnicity | Jewish |
Occupation | Television director, television producer, film director, television writer, actor |
Years active | 1971–present |
Spouse(s) | Laura Owens |
Children | Hannah Owens-Bender |
Jack Bender (born September 25, 1949) is an American television and film director, television producer and former actor.
Biography
Bender grew up in a secular Jewish family in Los Angeles.[1] His father was a furrier to the Hollywood community.[1] He studied art with Los Angeles artist Martin Lubner (spouse of actress Joanna Merlin) and then went into acting "because it seemed like what I could do and make a living."[1] As an actor, Bender has guest starred on All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He has co-starred in The Million Dollar Duck, Savage and McNaughton's Daughter. He then went into directing, working on a number of television series.
He was an executive producer and lead director on the ABC TV series Lost, directing 38 episodes of the show, including the series finale.[2] Bender has also directed on other popular shows such as The Sopranos,[3] Carnivàle, Alias and Boston Public. In recent years he was an executive producer and lead director on the TV series Under the Dome (2013) and The Last Ship (2014-15). Bender will be directing the fifth and sixth episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones (2016), followed by a limited TV series adaptation of Stephen King's novel Mr. Mercedes.[4]
Personal life
He is married to Rabbi Laura Owens of B’nai Horin.[1] They have two daughters, Hannah and Sophie Owens-Bender.[1] He now practices Judaism.[1]
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References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Jewish Journal: "Jack Bender’s lost and found" by Jonathan Maseng January 7, 2015
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