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CBS / SONY PICTURES TELEVISION “Battle Creek” Art Director Series
TURNER BROADCASTING “Mob City” - formerly “Lost Angels” Production DesignerPilot + 2 Episodes: Art Director / 3 Episodes: Production D esigner
MARVEL / ABC / DISNEY “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Art Director Pilot AMC / CIRCLE OF CONFUSION / VALHALA “The Walking Dead” Production Designer Pilot + 2 Episodes: Art Director Three Episodes / Season Finale: Production Designer
ABC / SHONDALAND “Off The Map” Production Desiger7 Episodes:Art Director / 5 Episodes: Production Designer
USA NETWORK “Playing House” Art Director Series
LIFETIME TELEVISION “HR” Art Director Pilot - Darren Starr Prod./Director 20th CENTURY FOX TV “The List” Art Director Pilot
NBC / UNIVERSAL “Animal Practice” Art Director Season 1
SONY PICTURES TELEVISION “El Jefe” Art Director Pilot
ABC / TOUCHSTONE “ Private Practice” Art DirectorSeason 1 -Partial Season 2
ABC / TOUCHSTONE “ Desperate Housewives” Art DirectorSeason 4 - Five Episodes
ABC / TOUCHSTONE “ In Case of Emergency” Art DirectorSeason 1
NBC / UNIVERSAL " Raines " Art DirectorPilot
ABC / TOUCHSTONE " Night Stalker " Art DirectorSeason 1
CBS / 20th CENTURY FOX " My Name Is Earl " Art DirectorPilot
NBC / PARAMOUNT STUDIOS " Medical Investigation " Art DirectorSeason 1 / Season 2
NBC / 20th CENTURY FOX / " The Lyon's Den " Art DirectorSeason 1
NBC / PARAMOUNT STUDIOS " Kingpin " Art DirectorMini-Series
ABC / WARNER BROS. " The D.A." Art DirectorMini Series
20th CENTURY FOX / CENTROPOLIS " The Visitor " Art DirectorPilot / Season 1
ABC TELEVISION " Sledgehammer " Production DesignerPilot / First Season
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filmsSTORY AND FILM “ Decoding Annie Parker ” Production DesignerDirector - Steven Bernstein
THE FILM DEPARTMENT “ Law Abiding Citizen ” Production DesignerDirector - F. Gary Gray
IXTLAN CORP. / Q.E.D. INTL. “ W ” Art DirectorDirector - Oliver Stone TOUCHSTONE / STEP UP 3D “Step Up 3D” Production Designer - Additional PhotographyDirector - John Chu
TOUCHSTONE / STEP UP2 “Step Up 2 The Streets Art Director - Additional PhotographyDirector - John Chu DARKWOOD PRODUCTIONS "The Mist" Art DirectorDirector - Frank Darabont
CHANTICLEER FILMS "12:01 P.M." Production DesignerDirector - Johnathan Heap*Academy Award Nominated
CANNON FILMS "The Naked Cage" Production DesignerDirector - Paul Nicholas
CINETEL / WYNN-STORM "Vampirella" Production DesignerDirector- Jim Wynorsky
20 MAX FILMS “Monkey Love” Art Director Director - Mark StrattonFeature Digital Production "Wednesday Night Save Production Designer The World Society"
LIGHTSTORM ENTERTAINMENT "Terminator 2" VFX Unit Art DirectorDirector - James CameronVisual EFX Unit - Steelmill Sequence Project
MCA/UNIVERSAL "Amazon Women of the Moon" Art Director Multiple Directors - Joe Dante, John Landis, Carl Gotlieb, Peter Horton, Robert K. Weiss
NEW WORLD PICTURES "Battle Beyond the Stars" Art DirectorDirector - James Murakami
Director - Bruce D. Clark "Galaxy of Terror"
DISNEY IMAGINEERING "Indiana Jones Stunt Theater" Visual ConsultantTheme Park Design
DISNEY STUDIOS "The Eternal Sea" Assistant Art DirectorDirector - Jeff BlythCircleVision Feature - Tahiti / Bora-Bora
PARAMOUNT STUDIOS "Team America World Police" Asst. Art DirectorDirectors - Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Feature Films / IMAX / CircleVision / High Def / 3D
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commercials - 15 years experience
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Giraldi / Saurez Bob Giraldi *On-Select TV, Apple Computer, Miller LIte*CLIO AWARD
H2 Suzanne Kiley LA Looks
Milk Bar / Brand New School Lara Shapiro, Jarl Olsen Disney DVD, Smirnof Ice, MacDonald’s
Cucoloris Pete O’Fallon Miller Lite, Goldstar, Good Guys, Colgate
Backyard Productions Kevin Smith llinois Bell, Miller Sharps, Chicago Lottery Rob Pritts Crispex, 7-11
HKM Graham Henman GE, Milk Advisory Board Michael Karbelnikov Daily News
Coppos Films Gary Sato Pizza Hut
NBC 2000 Joe Livecchi NBCi.com
Pfeifer / Van Dusen Bruce Van Dusen TD Waterhouse, Midol, Total, One-A-Day Honey Nut Cheerios
Fuel Seth Epstein Hewlitt Packard
Headquarters David Cornell USGA
Visitor Dave Merhar Fox Network, MCI
H.S.I. Dave Merhar MCI
Apogee John Dykstra Whirlpool, UPS, Olypics Campaign
Lucasfilm Commercial Production Michael McNamarra TRW, Illiois Bell
Petermann / Dektor Leslie Dektor Apple Computer, Ford Mustang, Avon Fred Petermann NATO. Sanka, Milk Advisory Board
Wexler / Hall Haskell Wexler Almaden Conrad Hall Miller Beer
Rick Levine Productions Michael Werks Dodge Trucks
Murray, McNammara Moving Pictures Joe Murray Fanta, Kool-Aid, Honeywell, Suave Michael McNammara Head & Shoulders
Porter / McNamarra Films Michael McNammara Folgers Coffee, Lipton Tea
Dennis, Guy & Hirsch Don Guy Kemper Insurance, Pepto Bismol Prudential, Sanka, US Marine Corps.
Michael / Daniel Dan Nichols, Cosimo, Lark Cigarettes, Friskies, KFC, Cheer, Trix Todd Allen, Hobby Morrison American Electric Power, Kraft, Miller Sharp Bob Hulme Blue Diamond Almonds Mark Piznarski, Anderson Windows, Sheba
Group One / Don Guy Don Guy Sears, Sprite, MacDonalds, Heineken
Roger Flint Productions Roger Flint Timex, Renault, Bank of America MacGuffin Films Ashley Lazurus Toyota, Pearlvision, Disney Home Video
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biography
ALEX HAJDU - Art Director / Production Designer
Frank Darabont’s pilot for the period detective mystery LA NOIR, set in 1947 Los Angeles, was picked up by TNT fora �rst season order of 5 episodes. The new series is entitled MOB CITY. Alex served as Art Director for the pilot and �rst two episodes before taking over as Production Designer to complete the series.
Recently Alex completed work on the pilot for the series MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. for ABC STUDIOS as Art Director.
Prior to that Alex was the Art Director on the NBC series ANIMAL PRACTICE. Following that he worked on the 20th Century Fox TV’s pilot THE LIST, produced and directed by GANSTER SQUAD creator Ruben Fleischer and S.H.I.E.L.D writer / producer Paul Zbyszewski.
Alex was the Art Director on the Sony Televison comedy pilot EL JEFE. He was teamed with long time collabortaor Gregory Melton, PD.
As the original Art Drector for the pilot and �rst two episodes of THE WALKING DEAD, another Frank Darbont produced project, Alex then became the Production Designer for subsequent episodes including the dramatic season �nale.
Alex started his collaboration with Frank Darabont’s on the feature �lm THE MIST, starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden, shot in Shreveport Louisiana, as Art Director.
ABC’s “OFF THE MAP”, shot in Hawaii, was another television project for Alex as Art Director for the �rst 5 episodes and completing 7 as Production Designer. Alex Hajdu had the pleasure to be chosed as an Art Director on Oliver Stone’s W., starring Josh Brolin, Derek Hill serving as Production Designer.
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN marks his �rst major feature �lm as production designer. Shot in Philadelphia, the dark action thriller stared Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler.
Born in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Hajdu immigrated to America during the Hungarian Revolution. He moved to Hollywood as a small child, grew up in the movie business and started working at the early age of �fteen as a runner and PA.
Mr. Hajdu became a propmaster in 1976, working on high end television commercial production before becoming a Production Designer in 1984. His �rst feature �lm experience was as art director on the Roger Corman productions BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and GALAXY OF TERROR working alongside Academy Award winner James Cameron and the Oscar-winning visual e�ects team, Robert and Dennis Skotak.
Mr. Hajdu has done extensive location work as an Art Director for IMAX and CircleVision projects in Hawaii and Bora-Bora for Disney Studios. He was the Art Director on the 1990 high de�nition production of To Dream of Roses for Expo Japan alongside Visual EFX master Douglas Trumbull. He was also the Production Designer on the 1940 period CD ROM detective thriller Noir, in the pioneering days of gaming.
Mr. Hajdu was also responsible for designing many signature music videos for artists such as EARTH, WIND AND FIRE, DON HENLEY and THE FOO FIGHTERS.
Among his other credits as art director are the ABC series Private Practice, In Case of Emergency, Night Stalker, the pilot for My Name Is Earl and The Visitor, which was the �rst television series produced by Centropolis Entertainment’s Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY).
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Gregory Melton (818) 335-2470Production Designer
Over 25 years collaboration as art directorwith Greg. I have also taken over shows as P.D. when he has moved to other projects.
Recent projects include the pilot for “Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”“The Walking Dead” , Off The Map”, and “Private Practice” Jennifer Dehghan (201) 787-9691Production Designer“Animal Practice”
Andrew Murdock (323) 547-9859Production Designer“Battle Creek”
Donna Hattin (818) 400-1694Production Designer
Mimi Gramatky (818) 802-4242Production Designer
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