Cast & creator
Don Scardino
Best known for Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The West Wing
Don Scardino (born February 17, 1948) is an American television director and producer and a former actor. Born in New York City, Scardino began his career as an actor. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include Johnny No-Trump, Godspell, and King of Hearts. Off-Broadway he appeared in The Rimers of Eldritch, The Comedy of Errors, Moonchildren, and I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, he was also the lead in a cult classic B horror movie titled Squirm in 1976. He served as Artistic Director at Playwrights Horizons from 1991-96. On television he appeared on the daytime soap operas The Guiding Light, All My Children, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and Another World and the primetime series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and The Name of the Game. Feature film credits include Rip-off, Homer, Squirm and Cruising. Following his acting on the network soap operas, he began to direct them. He directed episodes of Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children. He went on to direct plays on and off-Broadway, including the world premiere of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. He has directed extensively in television, most notably NBC's comedy 30 ROCK. Feature film directing work includes Me & Veronica (Venice Film Festival), and Advice From A Caterpillar, winner, best comedy, at Aspen Comedy Festival. Scardino was married to actress Pamela Blair from 1984 to 1991. He is currently married to painter Dana L. Williams.
Also known as: Donald Joseph Scardino, Chelo Scardino
32
film credits
41
television credits
16
1966–2026 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (73)
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Law & Order
Director
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Director
2001
The West Wing
Director
1999
Young Sheldon
Director
2017
2 Broke Girls
Director
2011
30 Rock
Hermit
200630 Rock
Director
200630 Rock
Producer
2006
American Playhouse
Director
1982
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director
1993
The Mindy Project
Director
2012
Only Murders in the Building
Director
2021
New Amsterdam
Director
2018
Rescue Me
Director
2004
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Director
2015
Royal Pains
Director
2009
Hope & Faith
Director
2003
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Director
2015
Ed
Director
2000
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Singer
1987The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Director
1987
Sports Night
Director
1998
100 Centre Street
Director
2001
George Lopez
Director
2002
Lipstick Jungle
Director
2008
Cosby
Director
1996
Instinct
Director
2018CBS Playhouse
Sandy Hoffman
1966
The Cool Kids
Executive Producer
2018The Cool Kids
Director
2018
Central Park West
Director
1995
The Education of Max Bickford
Director
2001
The Big Easy
Director
1996
DAG
Director
2000
Pearl
Director
1996
Murphy Brown
Director
2018
Soul Man
Director
1997
The Knights of Prosperity
Director
2007
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Director
2013Tattingers
Director
1988
Angel from Hell
Director
2016
Public Morals
Director
1996
Cruising
Ted Bailey
1980
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
Self
2026
Squirm
Mick
1976
He Knows You're Alone
Marvin
1980
Advice From a Caterpillar
Director
1999
The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
Director
2021The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
Executive Producer
2021
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Self
2026
The People Next Door
Sandy Hoffman
1970
Me and Veronica
Director
1993
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
Don
2023Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
Director
2023Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
Executive Producer
202327 Wagons Full of Cotton
Director
1990
The History of 'Cruising'
Self
2007
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Director
1993
Homer
Homer Edwards
1970Homer
Original Music Composer
1970The Rubber Gun Squad
1977
Women and Wallace
Director
1990
A Break in the Rain
Director
2025A Break in the Rain
Music
2025
The Deal
Director
1998
Browsers
Director
2013Browsers
Executive Producer
2013
Purlie
Charlie
1981
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Self
2007Mission Control
Director
2014
Rip-Off
Mike
1971After All
Director
After All
Original Music Composer