---
name: "James Quinn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-quinn"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T00:57:50.030670+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# James Quinn

Director. Born 1 January 1901.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1901
- **Active:** 1984–1990
- **Also known as:** Jim Quinn, James J. Quinn
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Aaron Lipstadt](https://film.one/person/aaron-lipstadt.md), [Daniel Sackheim](https://film.one/person/daniel-sackheim.md), [David Black](https://film.one/person/david-black.md), [Dick Wolf](https://film.one/person/dick-wolf.md), [Ed Zuckerman](https://film.one/person/ed-zuckerman.md), [Gabrielle Beaumont](https://film.one/person/gabrielle-beaumont.md), [Jack Richardson](https://film.one/person/jack-richardson.md), [Michael Duggan](https://film.one/person/michael-duggan.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (2), 1990s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Quinn_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6141548, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703867/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76161

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Miami Vice*](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md) (81)
- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

James Quinn is an American film and television director, also credited as James J. Quinn and Jim Quinn. He began his career as a second and first assistant director on feature films including *Smokey and the Bandit* (1977), *Reds* (1981) and *Gremlins* (1984).

In 1984 he joined the production of the television series *Miami Vice* as first assistant director on eleven episodes and made his directorial debut on the show, directing three episodes in 1987. He went on to direct episodes of numerous series, including eleven episodes of *Law & Order* between 1990 and 2003, as well as work on *Crime Story*, *Midnight Caller*, *Early Edition*, *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* and *Providence*. His final credited directorial work was an episode of *The Division* in 2004.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Miami Vice* (1984), Fi1m 81, First Assistant Director, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Gremlins* (1984), Fi1m 80, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/gremlins.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *See No Evil: The Moors Murders* (2006), series, as Supt Bob Talbot
- *Secret Agent Man* (2000), series, Director
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Director
- *The Client* (1995), series, Director
- *Blind Man's Bluff* (1992), Director
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Freddy's Nightmares* (1988), series, Director
- *Miami Vice* (1984), series, Director, First Assistant Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)
- *Gremlins* (1984), First Assistant Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/gremlins.md)
- *Reds* (1981), First Assistant Director
- *Last Embrace* (1979), Assistant Director
- *The Last Waltz* (1978), Assistant Director
- *Empire of the Ants* (1977), Second Assistant Director
- *Smokey and the Bandit* (1977), Second Assistant Director

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