Daniel Sackheim

b. 1962, American

By Colter Ruland

October 29, 2021

Biography

Daniel Sackheim, born in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, is a photographer, film and television director, and producer living and working in Los Angeles, the United States of America. As a director, Sackheim is best known for his work on multiple highly acclaimed television series.

Some of his directorial credits include: Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Americans, The Walking Dead, Jack Ryan, Servant, Better Call Saul, The Leftovers, The Man in the High Castle, Ozark, and more recently Lovecraft Country.

He has received multiple Emmy nominations, more recently in 2017 for directing the Ozark episode “Tonight We Improvise,” which is a category he won in 1997 for an episode of NYPD Blue. In addition to his television work, Sackheim directed the Sony feature film, The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, and Stellan Skarsgard, and he produced the film, The X-Files: Fight the Future, for 20th Century Fox.

Alongside fellow HBO alum Tony To, Sackheim is the co-founder of Bedrock Entertainment, which produces prestige content programming streamers and premium cable platforms. Sackheim’s photographic practice translates the filmic league of his career into still photography that explores the nature of mystery, urban environments, and narrative ambiguity.

His attraction to spaces dominated by shadows stems from his love of film noir and its predilection for heightened reality. A member of a number of photography centers, he is also a curator for www.streetfinder.site which is a growing community for street photography.

Sackheim has exhibited at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Center for Photographic Art and received photography awards during these group shows.

Artworks

Daniel Sackheim, White Squares, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, Family Outing, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, A Light From Above, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, Destination Unknown, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, Salary Man’s Night Out, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, The Jaws of Life, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, Umbrella Policy, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, Midnight Sun, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

Daniel Sackheim, Self-Portrait. Courtesy of the artist.

Colter Ruland

Colter Ruland is the editorial director of PR for Artists. He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Arizona, and an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. He also studied literature at Universität Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany.

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