Mark Tinker

Mark Tinker
Mark Tinker
Born	Mark Christian Tinker; January 16, 1951 (age 70); Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Syracuse University (1973)
Occupation	Director, producer
Years active	1973–present
Spouse(s)	Kristin Harmon (m. 1988; div. 2000); Chandra West; (m. 2005)
Parent(s)	Grant Tinker; Ruth Byerly
Relatives	John Tinker (brother)

Mark Tinker (born January 16, 1951) is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO series Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue, which was co-created by Deadwood writer David Milch. Tinker has also directed episodes of The White Shadow, St. Elsewhere, Capital News, Civil Wars, Chicago Hope, L.A. Law, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal, Chicago P.D., Magnum P.I., and American Gods.

Early life[]

Tinker was born in Stamford, Connecticut,^[1] the son of Ruth Prince (née Byerly) (1927–2004) and former NBC chairman Grant Tinker (1926–2016), and the brother of John Tinker, with whom he worked on St. Elsewhere. His stepmother was Mary Tyler Moore, who was married to Grant Tinker from 1962 until 1981.

Tinker graduated from Syracuse University in 1973.^[2]

Career[]

Tinker joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as an executive producer and director for the third and final season in 2006. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Tinker directed the episodes "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood",^[3] "Unauthorized Cinnamon",^[4] "A Constant Throb"^[5] and "Tell Him Something Pretty".^[6]

Tinker last collaborated with David Milch on the short-lived HBO drama series John from Cincinnati, which began airing in June, 2007. Tinker directed the pilot and served as executive producer.

Personal life[]

Formerly married (1988–2000) to the actress and painter Kristin Harmon, he married actress Chandra West in October 2005.^[7]

Filmography[]

Magnum P.I.
- 1.14 "Nowhere to Hide" (2019) TV Episode
For the People
- episode 1.02 "Rahowa" (2018) TV Episode
Chicago Med
- 3.03 "Trust Your Gut" (2017) TV Episode
Chicago P.D.
- 1.04 "Trust is Always Temporary" (2014) TV Episode
- 1.07 "The Price We Pay" (2014) TV Episode
- 1.12 "8:30 PM" (2014) TV Episode
- 1.15 "A Beautiful Friendship" (2014) TV Episode
- 2.1 "Call It Macaroni" (2014) TV Episode
- 2.5 "An Honest Woman" (2014) TV Episode
- 2.14 "Erin's Mom" (2015) TV Episode
- 2.21 "There's My Girl" (2015) TV Episode
- 2.23 "Born Into Bad News" (2015) TV Episode
- 3.2 "Natural Born Storyteller" (2015) TV Episode
- 3.5 "Climbing Into Bed" (2015) TV Episode
- 3.11 "Knocked The Family Right Out" (2016) TV Episode
- 3.19 "If We Were Normal" (2016) TV Episode
- 3.23 "Street Digging" (2016) TV Episode
- 4.1 "The Silos" (2016) TV Episode
- 4.6 "Some Friend" (2016) TV Episode
- 4.11 "You Wish" (2017) TV Episode
- 4.14 "Seven Indictments" (2017) TV Episode
- 4.23 "Fork in the Road" (2017) TV Episode
- 5.8 "Politics" (2017) TV Episode
- 5.11 "Confidential" (2018) TV Episode
Scandal
- episode 2.04 "Beltway Unbuckled" (2012) TV Episode
- episode 2.14 "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" (2013) TV Episode
- episode 2.21 "Any Questions?" (2013) TV Episode
Private Practice
- episode 1.01 "In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else" (2007) TV Episode
- episode 1.03 "In Which Addison Finds the Magic" (2007) TV Episode
- episode 1.08 "In Which Cooper Finds a Port In His Storm" (2007) TV Episode
- episode 2.01 "A Family Thing" (2008) TV Episode
- episode 2.08 "Crime and Punishment" (2008) TV Episode
- episode 2.12 "Homeward Bound" (2009) TV Episode
- episode 2.16 "Ex-Life" (2009) TV Episode
- episode 2.19 "What Women Want" (2009) TV Episode
- episode 3.01 "A Death in the Family" (2009) TV Episode
- episode 3.07 "The Hard Part" (2009) TV Episode
- episode 3.10 "Blowups" (2009) TV Episode
- episode 3.16 "Fear of Flying" (2010) TV Episode
John from Cincinnati
- episode 1.01 "Pilot"
Deadwood
- episode 3.01 "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" (2006) TV Episode
- episode 3.07 "Unauthorized Cinnamon" (2006) TV Episode
- episode 3.10 "A Constant Throb" (2006) TV Episode
- episode 3.12 "Tell Him Something Pretty" (2006) TV Episode
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
- episode 2.27 "Losing My Religion" (2006) TV Episode
- episode 2.05 "Bring the Pain" (2005) TV Episode
'NYPD Blue
- "Frickin' Fraker" (2003) TV Episode
- "Danny Boy" (1998) TV Episode
- "Top Gum" (1998) TV Episode
- "Hammer Time" (1998) TV Episode
- "A Box of Wendy" (1998) TV Episode
Philly (2001) TV Series
Brooklyn South (1997) TV Series
Bonanza: Under Attack (1995) (TV)
ER
- "Going Home" (1994) TV Episode
Chicago Hope (1994) TV Series
L.A. Law
- "Dead Issue" (1994) TV Episode
- "God Is My Co-Counsel" (1994) TV Episode
- "Foreign Co-respondent" (1993) TV Episode
- "Book of Renovation, Chapter 1" (1993) TV Episode
Civil Wars (1991) TV Series (1991–1993)
Babe Ruth (1991) (TV)
(1991)
Our Shining Moment (1991)
My Old School (1991) (TV)
Capital News (1990) (TV)
Private Eye (1987)
St. Elsewhere (1982) TV Series (1982–1988)
Making the Grade (1982) TV Series
The White Shadow (1978)
The Bob Newhart Show
- "Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod" (1978)

References[]

^ Mark Tinker bio
^ Bruce Greenwood Is John From Cincinnati Archived 2006-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ Mark Tinker (director), David Milch & Ted Mann (writers) (2006-06-11). "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 1. HBO.
^ Mark Tinker (director), Regina Corrado (writer) (2006-07-23). "Unauthorized Cinnamon". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 7. HBO.
^ Mark Tinker (director), W. Earl Brown (writer) (2006-08-13). "A Constant Throb". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 10. HBO.
^ Mark Tinker (director), Ted Mann (writer) (2006-08-27). "Tell Him Something Pretty". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 12. HBO.
^ Mark Tinker biography, HBO John From Cincinnati, Deadwood webpages at hbo.com

External links[]

Mark Tinker at IMDb

[1] Mark Tinker bio

[2] Bruce Greenwood Is John From Cincinnati Archived 2006-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

[Tell_Your_God_to_Ready_for_Blood-3] Mark Tinker (director), David Milch & Ted Mann (writers) (2006-06-11). "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 1. HBO.

[Unauthorized_Cinnamon-4] Mark Tinker (director), Regina Corrado (writer) (2006-07-23). "Unauthorized Cinnamon". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 7. HBO.

[A_Constant_Throb-5] Mark Tinker (director), W. Earl Brown (writer) (2006-08-13). "A Constant Throb". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 10. HBO.

[Tell_Him_Something_Pretty-6] Mark Tinker (director), Ted Mann (writer) (2006-08-27). "Tell Him Something Pretty". Deadwood. Season 3. Episode 12. HBO.

[7] Mark Tinker biography, HBO John From Cincinnati, Deadwood webpages at hbo.com

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show v t Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1950s	Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
1960s	Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960) George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961) Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (1962) Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963) Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964) Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966) Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967) Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968) David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970) Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971) Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972) Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973) Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974) Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975) David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976) David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977) Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978) Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
1980s	Roger Young for "Cop" (1980) Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981) Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982) Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983) Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984) Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985) Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986) Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987) Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988) Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
1990s	Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990) Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991) Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992) Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993) Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994) Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996) Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997) Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Brain Salad Surgery" (1998) Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
2000s	Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000) Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001) Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002) Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003) Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004) J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005) Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006) Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007) Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008) Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
2010s	Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010) Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011) Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012) David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013) Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014) David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016) Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017) Stephen Daldry for "Paterfamilias" (2018) Jason Bateman for "Reparations" (2019)
2020s	Andrij Parekh for "Hunting" (2020)

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Mark Tinker
Born	Mark Christian Tinker (1951-01-16) January 16, 1951 (age 70) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Syracuse University (1973)
Occupation	Director, producer
Years active	1973–present
Spouse(s)	Kristin Harmon (m. 1988; div. 2000) Chandra West (m. 2005)
Parent(s)	Grant Tinker Ruth Byerly
Relatives	John Tinker (brother)