Tyler Bensinger
{{short description|American film director}}
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Television writer, producer
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Tyler Bensinger is an American film and television writer, producer and film director.
Career
Bensinger grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Webb School of California. He earned his B.A. as an English Major at Yale before attending UCLA Film School where he received his MFA.{{cite web |last1=Rice |first1=Jessica |title=22 1/2 Minutes With Television Writer Tyler Bensinger Class of '80 |url=https://www.webb.org/news-detail?pk=1012482 |website=The Webb Schools of California |accessdate=31 July 2020}} He began his career writing features and wrote and directed the film Just Looking. Bensinger moved from features to TV in the late nineties and has written on numerous shows including The Cape (1996),{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-gVZXFeBA |title= Episode 17-The Last to Know|website= YouTube}} The Pretender, Beverly Hills 90210, Titans, Going to California, Dragnet, Cold Case, Justice, Viva Laughlin, Harper's Island, Parenthood, Prime Suspect, Masters of Sex, Nashville, The Good Wife, Notorious and This Is Us.{{cite news |last1=O'Neill |first1=Tyler |title=How 'This Is Us' Got Made |url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-this-is-us-got-made-nbc-70624/ |accessdate=31 July 2020 |work=www.backstage.com |date=28 April 2020 |language=en}} He has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award (Masters of Sex){{cite news |title=WGA Awards 2014: Complete list of winners and nominees |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-wga-awards-2014-complete-list-nominees-story.html |accessdate=31 July 2020 |newspaper=LA Times |date=January 30, 2014}} and an Emmy Award (This Is Us).{{cite web |title=Tyler Bensinger Awards and Nominations |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/tyler-bensinger |website=Emmys |accessdate=31 July 2020}}
Bensinger is also a photographer. His monograph There and Away won first place in the International Photography Awards/Lucie Foundation competition in 2018.{{cite web |title=There and Away |url=http://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-157944-18 |website=International Photography Awards |accessdate=31 July 2019}} Bensinger's photographs have been featured twice in Lens' Magazine (issues 69 and 83).
References
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External links
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Category:Film directors from Los Angeles
Category:American television producers
Category:American male television writers
Category:American television writers
Category:UCLA Film School alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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