Directing • AGE 85
James Burrows (December 30, 1940 — June 19, 2026) was an American director and producer.


Mid-Century Modern
Director
2025

Frasier
Director
2023

Being Mary Tyler Moore
Self (voice)
2023

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Director
2021

B Positive
Director
2020

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Director
2019

Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
Director
2019

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Director
2019

The Neighborhood
Director
2018

Will & Grace
Executive Producer
2017

The Nineties
Self
2017

Superior Donuts
Director
2017

Man with a Plan
Director
2016

Crowded
Director
2016

Safe House
Sam
2015

The Millers
Director
2013

Partners
Director
2012

2 Broke Girls
Director
2011

Cheers
Original Series Creator
2011

$#*! My Dad Says
Director
2010

Better With You
Director
2010

Mike & Molly
Producer
2010

100 Questions
Director
2010

Romantically Challenged
Producer
2010

Gary Unmarried
Producer
2008

The Big Bang Theory
Director
2007

Back to You
Producer
2007

Mastersons of Manhattan
Director
2007

The Class
Director
2006

Teachers
Director
2006

Four Kings
Director
2006

Two and a Half Men
Director
2003

Bram & Alice
Director
2002

Good Morning, Miami
Director
2002

Madigan Men
Director
2000

Stark Raving Mad
Director
1999

Ladies Man
Director
1999

The Frasier Story
Self
1999

The Secret Lives of Men
Producer
1998

Jesse
Director
1998

Will & Grace
Director
1998

Conrad Bloom
Director
1998

Union Square
Director
1997

Dharma & Greg
Director
1997

George & Leo
Director
1997

Fired Up
Director
1997

Chicago Sons
Director
1997

Men Behaving Badly
Director
1996

Pearl
Director
1996

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

3rd Rock from the Sun
Director
1996

Caroline in the City
Director
1995

Hudson Street
Director
1995

Partners
Director
1995

NewsRadio
Director
1995

Friends
Director
1994

Madman of the People
Director
1994

Monty
Director
1994

Cafe Americain
Director
1993

Frasier
Director
1993

Flying Blind
Director
1992

Pacific Station
Director
1991

Roc
Director
1991

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
Director
1990

Wings
Director
1990

Dear John
Director
1988

Channel 99
Director
1988

The Tortellis
Producer
1987

All Is Forgiven
Director
1986

The Hogan Family
Director
1986

Night Court
Director
1984

Cheers
Director
1982

Family Ties
Director
1982

Partners
Director
1982

Best of the West
Director
1981

Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special
Self
1981

The Associates
Director
1979

A New Kind of Family
Director
1979

More Than Friends
Director
1978

Taxi
Director
1978

We've Got Each Other
Director
1977

Lou Grant
Director
1977

The Tony Randall Show
Director
1976

Laverne & Shirley
Director
1976

Phyllis
Director
1975

The Lost Saucer
Director
1975

Rhoda
1974

The Bob Newhart Show
1972

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Director
1970