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Mar 7, 2007, 12:00 PM
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TV director Sutton Roley dead at 84
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Born Sutton Wilson Roley on October 19, 1922 in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, he died Saturday.
A film and TV director and writer for over 35 years, he did loads of low-budget series in the 1960s and 1970s. Well-known in the industry for his exuberant visual sense, skewed angles, distorted lenses, long takes, elaborate tracking shots and bold compositions.
His best work included Combat in the mid-1960s and Mannix in the early 1970s.
He started out in live TV, directing (and sometimes writing) Lights Out and The Kate Smith Show. Later, Roley worked in filmed TV through Ziv's half-hour action shows done on the cheap (Harbor Command, Men of Annapolis).
Other shows included Adventures in Paradise, The Man From UNCLE, The Rat Patrol,
Twelve O'Clock High, The Name of the Game, The Invaders, Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Sutton Roley is survived by daughter Elizabeth (Sam) Crockett; sons Sutton and Trenace; and grandchildren Sutton Calvin Roley, Preston Roley, and Mackenzie and Blake Crockett.
Private family services will be held. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, P.O. Box 2164, Los Angeles, CA 90051. Cabot & Sons, Pasadena Directors.
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Mar 7, 2007, 12:00 PM)
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