Richard J. Lewis

Born in Toronto Richard J Lewis first showed promise on the tennis court and attended Northwestern University in Illinois on a tennis scholarship He got tossed out of the institution for as he has said sex drugs and rock rsquonrsquo roll He became interested in theatre and was acting and directing had a radio show I was in a rock band There were so many things to do He next headed to Paris where he worked as a gofer for a magazine then became a ski bum in the Alps With his misspent youth behind him Lewis enrolled in graduate film school at the University of Southern California Once out of USC he began work directing low budget video projects But in 1989 Lewis landed his first professional job directing two episodes on the remake version of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series From there he landed an almost regular job directing 11 episodes of the Saturday morning childrenrsquos show emThe Adventures of Superboyem A corporate project for BC Hydro brought him to the attention of a producer who hired him to direct several episodes of the awardwinning series North of 60 With a substantial amount of experience behind the camera Lewis directed his first feature film emWhale Musicem in 1994 An adaptation of the a hrefquarringtonpaulPaul Quarringtona novel Lewis not only directed but also cowrote the screenplay with Quarrington The film wasnt a commercial success and some critics were tough on the it but it gained a sort of cult status with those people who liked it In 1997 Lewis directed an episode of the Canadian television series emDue Southem created by a hrefhttpswwwnorthernstarscahaggispaulPaul Haggisa Lewis returned to Los Angeles where his career finally took off He started directing a lot of highend television which led to a chance to direct the fourth episode of CSI Then he was given another episode later that year In the second season he directed six episodes and became an inhouse director on the series On the third season Lewis became a producer and began writing some episodes By the time the fifth or sixth season started he was the executive producer In all he produced 49 episodes of CSI and directed 45 over the nine seasons he was with the seriesbrbrbr