Danny Aiello III

Born January 27, 1957, Danny Aiello III was a producer and director whose career in film and television lasted twenty-five years, earning him notice in New York as a promising filmmaker. He produced and directed 18 Shades of Dust (2001), which was nominated at the London Film Festival, and the CBS series Dellaventura (1997), which received a People's Choice nomination for Best New Dramatic Series. He directed episodes of the Paramount series The Untouchables (1993) and The Watcher (2000), and worked as second unit director on both. His work spanned more than three hundred films and shows, among them 21 Grams (2003), Rescue Me (2004), and Stateside (2004), where he served as a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and second unit director. He sat on the Screen Actors Guild's stunt and safety committee and joined the 2005 AFTRA contract talks. Aiello served as president of Reinvented Films, Inc., and CMG Talent, Inc., and died on May 1, 2010.