REZA BADIYI - Prolific Television Director

Iranian-American television director Reza Badiyi died in a Los Angeles hospital on August 20, 2011.  He was 81.  Badiyi was born in Arak, Iran, on April 17, 1930.  He trained at the Iranian Academy of Drama, and came to the United States in 1955 to work in film.  He worked as a camaraman for such directors as Robert Altman and Sam Pekinpah, and was assistant director on the films “The Delinquents” (1957) and “Carnival of Souls” (1962).  He made his directorial debut with the 1963 short “Censorship: A Question of Judgement?”.  He was a prolific television director from the 1960s, helming episodes of “Get Smart”, “Mission: Impossible”, “Mod Squad”, “The Magician”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “Man from Atlantis”, “Holmes and Yoyo”,  “Cliffhangers: Stop Susan Williams”, “The Incredible Hulk”, “The Phoenix”, “Bring ‘Em Back Alive”, “The

Adventures of Superboy”, “Dinosaurs”, “Dark Justice”, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, “Nowhere Man”, “Viper”, “Baywatch Nights”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “La Femme Nikita”, “Mortal Kombat: Conquest”, “Sliders”, “Early Edition”, and “She Spies”.  Badiyi also directed the tele-films “The Eyes of Charles Sand” (1972), “The Girl Who Saved the World” (1979), and “Eye of the Stalker” (1995).   He was credited by the Director’s Guild of America for directing the most hours of television.