Most notably, he created eight videos for LL Cool J, including ' Mama Said Knock You Out', which won awards from both MTV and Billboard-and went on to be listed by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. He directed music videos for Bob Dylan ('It's Unbelievable'), the New Kids On The Block ('Games' ), Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross ('The Best Things in Life Are Free' ). Barclay then moved into music video directing and production through his own company, Black & White Television. His Harvard roommate was novelist Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha.įollowing his graduation from Harvard, Barclay worked as a copywriter and creative supervisor at Grey, BBDO, Cunningham & Walsh, and Marsteller.

Barclay attended both the La Lumiere School and Harvard with John Roberts, now the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

During his four years there, he wrote 16 musicals, including the music for two of the annual Hasty Pudding shows. On scholarship, he was one of the first African-Americans to attend the school.īarclay went on to Harvard College, where he was extremely active in student musical theatre productions and the a cappella singing group The Harvard Krokodiloes. Raised Catholic, he attended La Lumiere School, a private college preparatory boarding school in La Porte, Indiana. For the past three years, he has been listed by Variety as “one of 500 most influential business leaders in Hollywood.” Early life īarclay was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He also serves as an Executive Producer on many of the shows he directs, and occasionally as a writer or co-creator as well.įrom 2013 to 2017, Barclay served two terms as the President of the Directors Guild of America. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed nearly 200 episodes of television to date, for series such as NYPD Blue, ER, The West Wing, CSI, Lost, The Shield, House, Sons of Anarchy, In Treatment and Glee and more recently Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, The Watcher, and American Horror Story: NYC. Barclay (born June 30, 1956) is an American television director, producer, and writer.

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