John David Coles

Career Overview

John David Coles has 33 screen credits in a career dating back to 1975. Signature works include Darrow, Signs of Life, Hellfire. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

33

Known For

• 

  Darrow
• 

  Signs of Life
• 

  Hellfire
• 

  Trump Unauthorized
• 

  Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story
• 

  The Good Fight

Frequent Collaborators

• Michael Lewis (2 collaborations)
• Ralph Williams (2 collaborations)
• Kevin Spacey (1 collaborations)
• Bob Tracey (1 collaborations)
• Paul Klementowicz (1 collaborations)
• Gerard Malone (1 collaborations)
• Erin Cressida Wilson (1 collaborations)
• Harry Goz (1 collaborations)
• Chris Cooper (1 collaborations)
• Bill Alton (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (30 credits)

  • Law & Order: Organized Crime

    - Say Hello to My Little Friends (2021) ... director directing
    2021
  • FBI: Most Wanted

    - Ride or Die (2020) ... director directing
    2020
  • The Right Stuff

    - Goodies (2020) ... director directing
    2020
  • The Sinner

    - Part III (2018) ... director directing
    2017
  • Mr. Mercedes

    - Cloudy, With a Chance of Mayhem (2017) ... director directing
    2017
  • 11.22.63

    - Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald (2016) ... director directing
    2016
  • House of Cards

    - Chapter 28 (2015) ... director directing

    - Chapter 27 (2015) ... director directing

    - Chapter 24 (2014) ... director directing

    - Chapter 19 (2014) ... director directing

    - Chapter 18 (2014) ... director directing
    2013
  • Bates Motel

    - Check-Out (2014) ... director directing
    2013
  • Elementary

    - Dirty Laundry (2013) ... director directing

    - While You Were Sleeping (2012) ... director directing
    2012
  • Homeland

    - Why Is This Night Different? (2015) ... director directing
    2011
  • Unforgettable

    - The Man in the Woods (2012) ... director directing

    - Brotherhood (2012) ... director directing

    - Check Out Time (2011) ... director directing
    2011
  • Justified

    - Debts and Accounts (2011) ... director directing
    2010
  • Damages

    - And My Paralyzing Fear of Death (2007) ... director directing
    2007
  • Trump Unauthorized

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Grey's Anatomy

    - Shake Your Groove Thing (2005) ... director directing
    2005
  • Nikki and Nora

    director

    directing
    2004
  • Desperate Housewives

    - Every Day a Little Death (2005) ... director directing

    - Move On (2005) ... director directing
    2004
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    - Lost Children Of The Blood (2010) ... director directing

    - Revolution (2009) ... director directing

    - Dramma Giocoso (2006) ... director directing

    - Enemy Within (2001) ... director directing
    2001
  • The West Wing

    - Life on Mars (2003) ... director directing

    - Arctic Radar (2002) ... director directing
    1999
  • Sex and the City

    - Cover Girl (2002) ... director directing

    - Luck Be an Old Lady (2002) ... director directing

    - Sex and Another City (2000) ... director directing

    - Escape from New York (2000) ... director directing

    - The Cheating Curve (1999) ... director directing
    1998
  • Friends at Last

    director

    directing
    1995
  • Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story

    director

    directing
    1994
  • The Good Fight

    director

    directing
    1992
  • Darrow

    director

    directing
    1991
  • Rising Son

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Law & Order

    - Personae Non Gratae (2008) ... director directing
    1990
  • Northern Exposure

    - Altered Egos (1993) ... director directing
    1990
  • Signs of Life

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Hellfire

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Saturday Night Live

    - Kathleen Turner/John Waite (1985) ... director directing

    - (no host)/Thompson Twins (1984) ... director directing
    1975

• production (3 credits)

  • House of Cards

    - Chapter 39 (2015) ... executive producer production

    - Chapter 38 (2015) ... executive producer production

    - Chapter 37 (2015) ... executive producer production

    - Chapter 36 (2015) ... executive producer production

    - Chapter 35 (2015) ... executive producer production
    2013
  • Elementary

    - The Grand Experiment (2014) ... producer production

    - Art in the Blood (2014) ... producer production

    - Paint It Black (2014) ... producer production

    - The Man with the Twisted Lip (2014) ... producer production

    - No Lack of Void (2014) ... producer production
    2012
  • Hellfire

    executive producer

    production
    1983