Career
He is best known for the 1986 horror classic The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer, as well as for films like They and Nowhere to Run. His television work is distinguished by the series of made-for-television movies featuring fictional Paradise (Mass) Police Chief Jesse Stone, which began in 2005 with Stone Cold, starring Tom Selleck, as well as the Emmy-nominated biopics Ike: Countdown to Doctorate-Day (also starring Selleck) and Gotti, starring Armand Assante. He has directed a few episodes of the television show Blue Bloods, which stars Tom Selleck.
