James Burrows

DirectorActorProducerWriter Dec 30 (age 85) Los Angeles, California, USA 1970–2025 (55 year career)

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Biography

James Burrows was born on December 30, 1940. He is a director and producer.

Known For

Film

Friends

Director

Film

The Big Bang Theory

Director

Film

Two and a Half Men

Director

Film

2 Broke Girls

Director

Film

Frasier

Director

Film

Cheers

Director

Film

3rd Rock from the Sun

Director

Film

Will & Grace

Director

Filmography

Acting (10)

Movies (3)

Being Mary Tyler Moore

as Self (voice)

The Frasier Story

as Self

Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special

1981

as Self

6.6

Television (7)

The Nineties

as Self

Safe House

as Sam

TV Land Moguls

E! True Hollywood Story

Cheers

Rhoda

The Bob Newhart Show

Crew (105)

Movies (13)

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

2021

Director

7.5

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

2021

Executive Producer

7.5

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

2019

Director

6.1

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

2019

Executive Producer

6.1

Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary

2019

Director

8.4

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

2019

Director

6.6

Mastersons of Manhattan

2007

Director

Channel 99

1988

Director

P.O.P.

1984

Director

Partners

1982

Director

5.3

Butterflies

1979

Director

More Than Friends

1978

Director

Calling Doctor Storm, M.D.

1977

Director

Television (92)

Mid-Century Modern

Director

Frasier

Director

B Positive

Director

The Neighborhood

Director

Superior Donuts

Director

Will & Grace

Director

Will & Grace

Executive Producer

Man with a Plan

Director

Crowded

Director

Crowded

Executive Producer

The Millers

Director

Partners

Director

2 Broke Girls

Director

Cheers

Original Series Creator

Mike & Molly

Director

Mike & Molly

Producer

Better With You

Director

$#*! My Dad Says

Director

100 Questions

Director

Romantically Challenged

2010

Director

5.3

Romantically Challenged

Producer

Gary Unmarried

Director

Gary Unmarried

Producer

The Big Bang Theory

Director

Back to You

Director

Back to You

Producer

Four Kings

Director

The Class

Director

The Class

Executive Producer

Teachers

Director

Two and a Half Men

Director

Good Morning, Miami

Director

Bram & Alice

Director

Madigan Men

Director

Ladies Man

Director

Stark Raving Mad

Director

Will & Grace

Director

Will & Grace

Executive Producer

Jesse

Director

Conrad Bloom

Director

The Secret Lives of Men

1998

Producer

Dharma & Greg

Director

Fired Up

Director

George & Leo

Director

Union Square

Director

Chicago Sons

Director

3rd Rock from the Sun

Director

Pearl

Director

Men Behaving Badly

Director

NewsRadio

Director

Caroline in the City

Director

Partners

Director

Hudson Street

Director

Friends

Director

Madman of the People

Director

Monty

Director

Frasier

Director

Cafe Americain

Director

Flying Blind

Director

Flesh 'n' Blood

Director

Roc

Director

Pacific Station

Director

Wings

Director

The Marshall Chronicles

Director

Dear John

Director

The Tortellis

Director

The Tortellis

Producer

The Hogan Family

Director

All is Forgiven

Director

Night Court

Director

Cheers

Director

Cheers

Executive Producer

Family Ties

Director

Best of the West

Director

Good Time Harry

Director

A New Kind of Family

Director

The Associates

Director

Taxi

Director

Free Country

Director

Lou Grant

Director

We've Got Each Other

Director

Busting Loose

Director

The Betty White Show

Director

Laverne & Shirley

Director

The Tony Randall Show

Director

The Lost Saucer

Director

Phyllis

Director

Rhoda

Director

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Director

The Bob Newhart Show

Director

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970

Director

7.6

Hungry

Director