James Burrows (December 30, 1940 — June 19, 2026) was an American director and producer.

Filmography

• Mid-Century Modern — Director, Executive Producer
• Frasier — Director
• 2021Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes — Director, Executive Producer
• B Positive — Director
• 2019Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary — Director
• 2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" — Director, Executive Producer
• 2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" — Director
• The Neighborhood — Director
• Superior Donuts — Director
• Will & Grace — Executive Producer, Director
• Crowded — Director, Executive Producer
• Man with a Plan — Director
• Safe House — Sam
• The Millers — Director
• Partners — Director
• 2 Broke Girls — Director
• Cheers — Original Series Creator
• $#*! My Dad Says — Director
• 100 Questions — Director
• Better With You — Director
• Mike & Molly — Director, Producer
• Romantically Challenged — Director, Producer
• Gary Unmarried — Director, Producer
• Back to You — Director, Producer
• 2007Mastersons of Manhattan — Director
• The Big Bang Theory — Director
• Four Kings — Director
• Teachers — Director
• The Class — Director, Executive Producer
• TV Land Moguls
• Two and a Half Men — Director
• Bram & Alice — Director
• Good Morning, Miami — Director
• Madigan Men — Director
• Ladies Man — Director
• Stark Raving Mad — Director
• Conrad Bloom — Director
• Jesse — Director
• The Secret Lives of Men — Producer
• Will & Grace — Director, Executive Producer
• Chicago Sons — Director
• Dharma & Greg — Director
• Fired Up — Director
• George & Leo — Director
• Union Square — Director
• 3rd Rock from the Sun — Director
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Men Behaving Badly — Director
• Pearl — Director
• Caroline in the City — Director
• Hudson Street — Director
• NewsRadio — Director
• Partners — Director
• Friends — Director
• Madman of the People — Director
• Monty — Director
• Cafe Americain — Director
• Frasier — Director
• Flying Blind — Director
• Flesh 'n' Blood — Director
• Pacific Station — Director
• Roc — Director
• 1990Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration — Director, Thanks
• The Marshall Chronicles — Director
• Wings — Director
• 1988Channel 99 — Director
• Dear John — Director
• The Tortellis — Director, Producer, Creator
• All Is Forgiven — Director
• The Hogan Family — Director
• Night Court — Director
• 1984P.O.P. — Director
• Cheers — Director, Executive Producer, Creator
• Family Ties — Director
• 1982Partners — Director
• Best of the West — Director
• Good Time Harry — Director
• A New Kind of Family — Director
• 1979Butterflies — Director
• The Associates — Director
• Free Country — Director
• 1978More Than Friends — Director
• Taxi — Director
• Busting Loose — Director
• 1977Calling Doctor Storm, M.D. — Director
• Lou Grant — Director
• The Betty White Show — Director
• We've Got Each Other — Director
• Laverne & Shirley — Director
• The Tony Randall Show — Director
• Phyllis — Director
• The Lost Saucer — Director
• Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers — Director
• Rhoda — Director
• The Bob Newhart Show — Maintenance Man, Director
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show — Director
• AbFab — Director
• Happiness Isn't Everything — Director

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2023Being Mary Tyler Moore — Self (voice)
• The Nineties — Self
• 1999The Frasier Story — Self
• 1981Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special — Self