Bill Persky

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Bill Persky (born September 9, 1931) is an American Emmy Award-winning director, screenwriter, producer, and actor for television. With his long-time collaborator Sam Denoff, he wrote and created the television show That Girl starring Marlo Thomas. Their writing collaboration on episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show resulted in some of the show's most popular episodes. He also directed 100 episodes of the situation comedy Kate and Allie. He also directed the situation comedies The Practice (1976) and Busting Loose (1977) and the movie Serial. While he was a hospital patient with a collapsed lung, he was interviewed by the TV show NY ER.

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v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
1950s	Peter Tewksbury for "Medal for Margaret" (1959)
1960s	Ralph Levy & Bud Yorkin for The Jack Benny Show (1960) Sheldon Leonard for The Danny Thomas Show (1961) Nat Hiken for Car 54, Where Are You? (1962) John Rich for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1963) Jerry Paris for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964) No Award (1965) William Asher for Bewitched (1966) James Frawley for "Royal Flush" (1967) Bruce Bilson for "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye" (1968) Greg Garrison for "October 17, 1968" (1969)
1970s	Dwight Hemion for "The Sound of Burt Bacharach" (1970) Jay Sandrich for "Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists" (1971) John Rich for "Sammy's Visit" (1972) Jay Sandrich for "It's Whether You Win or Lose" (1973) Jackie Cooper for "Carry On, Hawkeye" (1974) Gene Reynolds for "O.R." (1975) Gene Reynolds for "Welcome to Korea" (1976) Alan Alda for "Dear Sigmund" (1977) Paul Bogart for "Edith's 50th Birthday" (1978) Noam Pitlik for "The Harris Incident" (1979)
1980s	James Burrows for "Louie and the Nice Girl" (1980) James Burrows for "Elaine's Strange Triangle" (1981) Alan Rafkin for "Barbara's Crisis" (1982) James Burrows for "Showdown: Part 2" (1983) Bill Persky for "A Very Loud Family" (1984) Jay Sandrich for "The Younger Woman" (1985) Jay Sandrich for "Denise's Friend" (1986) Terry Hughes for "Isn't It Romantic?" (1987) Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot (Hooperman)" (1988) Peter Baldwin for "Our Miss White" (1989)
1990s	Michael Dinner for "Good-bye" (1990) James Burrows for "Woody Interruptus" (1991) Barnet Kellman for "Birth 101" (1992) Betty Thomas for "For Peter's Sake" (1993) James Burrows for "The Good Son" (1994) David Lee for "The Matchmaker" (1995) Michael Lembeck for "The One After the Superbowl" (1996) David Lee for "To Kill a Talking Bird" (1997) Todd Holland for "Flip" (1998) Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (Sports Night) (1999)
2000s	Todd Holland for "Pilot" (Malcolm in the Middle) (2000) Todd Holland for "Bowling" (2001) Michael Patrick King for "The Real Me" (2002) Robert B. Weide for "Krazee-Eyez Killa" (2003) Anthony and Joe Russo for "Pilot" (Arrested Development) (2004) Charles McDougall for "Pilot" (Desperate Housewives) (2005) Marc Buckland for "Pilot" (My Name Is Earl) (2006) Richard Shepard for "Pilot" (Ugly Betty) (2007) Barry Sonnenfeld for "Pie-lette" (2008) Jeffrey Blitz for "Stress Relief" (2009)
2010s	Ryan Murphy for "Pilot" (Glee) (2010) Michael Spiller for "Halloween" (2011) Steven Levitan for "Baby on Board" (2012) Gail Mancuso for "Arrested" (2013) Gail Mancuso for "Las Vegas" (2014) Joey Soloway for "Best New Girl" (2015) Joey Soloway for "Man on the Land" (2016) Donald Glover for "B.A.N." (2017) Amy Sherman-Palladino for "Pilot" (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) (2018) Harry Bradbeer for "Episode 1" (2019)
2020s	Andrew Cividino and Dan Levy for "Happy Ending" (2020) Lucia Aniello for "There Is No Line" (2021) MJ Delaney for "No Weddings and a Funeral" (2022)