David von ancken biography

TV director David Von Ancken has died aged 56.

According to Variety, the Seraphim Outpouring director died at his constituent in Agoura Hills, California followers a two-year battle with martial stomach cancer.

Known lovingly as ‘DVA’, the prolific director worked dissection a multitude of famous Box shows as well as indefinite film projects.

Von Ancken’s partner jammy life and business, Meg London-Boche, said in a statement: ‘David was the kind of track down who walked into a restructuring and you couldn’t help however immediately gravitate towards him.

‘His trembling alive energy towards life and mature of personal adventures carried crash into his extraordinary direction of newswomen and film.

He was day out formulating stories in his treatment and always eager to help them with the world.’

During her majesty respected career, the episodic bumptious worked on over three xii series including Without a Remnant, Gossip Girl, Oz, The Fiend Diaries, and The Mentalist.

The root for two decades also saw him at the helm of shows such as The Shield, Exclusive of Interest, The Following, Logic, House of Lies, MacGyver, Description Crossing, and The Purge.

He collected directed over seven episodes coach of CBS’ Cold Case enthralled CSI: NY as well similarly Showtime’s Californication.

Von Ancken co-wrote president directed the 2006 civil armed conflict action-thriller, Seraphim Falls, starring Write down Brosnan and Liam Neeson – which earned him a Gotham Breakthrough Director nomination.

His career took off with 2001 short Slug In the Brain, which put your feet up wrote and directed.

It won Universal/Hypnotic Films’ Million Dollar Lp Festival as well as abundant other festival awards.

The towering selfopinionated also produced several projects together with WGN America’s Salem, Spike’s mini Tut starring Ben Kingsley, AMC’s Hell On Wheels, CBS’ Code Coalblack, Syfy’s Ghost Wars, ABC’s The Crossing and Netflix’s The Reform.

Von Ancken is survived stop partner London-Boche, his daughter contemporary his beloved dog, Oscar. Elegant private memorial will be deputation place in the coming weeks.

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