Roy Campanella II

This article is about the television director and producer. For his father, the baseball player, see Roy Campanella.

Roy Campanella II (born June 20, 1948) is a television director and producer.

Roy Campanella II
Born	Roy Campanella II (1948-06-20) June 20, 1948 (age 77) St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Television director and television producer
Years active	1982–present
Father	Roy Campanella

Biography

Born Roy Campanella II, he is the son of professional baseball great Roy Campanella.^[1][2] After directing some short films, the younger Campanella began directing episodic television. One of his first professional assignments was directing an episode of the Lou Grant television series in 1982. Within a few years he was also directing longer form television projects. He was also listed as a "creative consultant" in the credits of the sitcom 227.

By the late 1990s, he was also producing. He entered into an arrangement with Black Entertainment Television (BET) to executive produce a series of feature-length adaptations of black romance novels (three of which he also directed).

In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, California.^[3] Campanella resigned 14 months later in the wake of reports that KPFA's 24-member Local Station Board (LSB) voted to terminate his employment. Tomas Moran, a former board member and KPFA supporter, speculated that Campanella was forced to resign because he rankled a fiercely entrenched bureaucracy that could not agree on the direction of the station. The previous general manager, Gus Newport, a former mayor of Berkeley, served less than a year before he stepped down, citing personal reasons.^[4]

Selected credits

Directing

Movies of the Week (MOWs)

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2000	Masquerade	BET
	Playing with Fire
1999	Rendezvous
1991	Brother Future	PBS	DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Shows - Daytime
1988	Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story	CBS
	Body of Evidence	CBS
1986	Passion and Memory	PBS

Episodic

Year	Series	Network	Episode	Notes
2002	Philly	ABC	"Lies of Minelli"
	Boston Public	Fox	"Chapter Thirty-Four"
1999–2000	Beverly Hills, 90210		"Slipping Away"
			"Trials and Tribulations"
			"I'm Happy for You...Really"
1997	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	CBS	"Wave Goodbye"
1992	I'll Fly Away	NBC	"The Way Things Are"	nominated for DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series' - Night
1986	Dallas	CBS	"Shadow Games"
1982	Lou Grant	CBS	"Beachhead"

Awards and recognition

• 1992: DGA Award nomination
• 1991: DGA Award