Eric Laneuville

Eric Laneuville
Role	Director
Name	Eric Laneuville
Date of birth	July 14, 1952
Origin	New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Eric Laneuville is a director on ABC's A Million Little Things.

Biography

Early Life

Laneuville was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Mildred, a guidance counselor, and Alexander Laneuville. He began acting while attending Audubon Junior High School in the Crenshaw, Los Angeles, District.

Laneuville often played juvenile characters younger than his own age. He appeared in several musicals staged at Audubon by drama teacher Mario Lomeli, including Bye Bye Birdie, Annie Get Your Gun, and Oklahoma!. He took drama courses at nearby Susan Miller Dorsey High School.

Career

While he took drama courses, Laneuville began acting professionally, co-starring as a troubled youth in an award-winning television movie and becoming a semi-regular cast member on Room 222, including one episode in which he appeared with his future Force of One co-star, Chuck Norris. He appeared in three episodes of Sanford and Son, as Esther's adopted son. In 1982, he landed the role of Luther Hawkins in the television series St. Elsewhere. He stayed with the series until it ended in 1988.

As well as The Omega Man (1971), his other film appearances included roles in Black Belt Jones (1974), Death Wish (1974) opposite Charles Bronson, Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974), A Piece of the Action (1977), Love at First Bite (1979), A Force of One, (1979), The Baltimore Bullet (1980) and Back Roads (1981).

Laneuville's first directing assignments were for episodes of St. Elsewhere. He has subsequently directed episodes of L.A. Law (1986), Quantum Leap (1989), Doogie Howser, M.D. (1990), NYPD Blue (1993), ER (1995), 413 Hope St., Gilmore Girls (2004), Lie to Me (2009), Monk (2005), The Mentalist (2009–12), Invasion, Medium, Lost (2005–08), Girlfriends, Everybody Hates Chris, Prison Break, Blue Bloods, Ghost Whisperer, and Grimm (2012–14).

In 1992, Laneuville won an Emmy for directing the episode "All God's Children" of the NBC series I'll Fly Away. He also directed the 2004 television film, America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story.

As his directing career took off, Laneuville's acting career continued only sporadically, usually in small cameo roles. His most recent on-camera appearance was on October 3, 2014, in a guest role on Blue Bloods in an episode he also directed.

In 2019, Laneuville directed an episode of the ABC series, A Million Little Things.

Credits

Director

A Million Little Things: Season 2
"Coming Home":	"Grand Canyon":	"Mixed Signals":	"The Perfect Storm":	"Austin":	"Unleashed":	"Ten Years":	"Goodnight":	"Time Stands Still":	"The Kiss":
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"We're the Howards":	"Guilty":	"Daisy":	"The Sleepover":	"The Lunch":	"Change of Plans":	"One Year Later":	"Mothers and Daughters":	"'Til Death Do Us Part":
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