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name: "John Behring"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1901"
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updated: "2026-09-17T20:17:49.516069+00:00"
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# John Behring

Director. Born 1 January 1901 in Canton.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1901, Canton
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6221371, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067090/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215006

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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## Biography

John Behring is an American television director, cinematographer and producer. He was born in Canton, South Dakota, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of South Dakota. He began his career in local television at WISN-TV in Milwaukee before moving into commercials and then to Los Angeles, where he worked on main titles and opening sequences for television shows from the early 1990s.

Behring's directorial debut was the 1995 CBS Schoolbreak Special "My Indian Summer". His first episodic drama credit was an episode of *The Lazarus Man* in 1996. He has since directed more than 130 episodes across numerous series, including *Law & Order* (1990), *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), *The Mentalist* (2008), *The Flash* (2014), *Arrow* (2012), *The 100* (2014), *Gotham* (2014), *Grimm* (2011), *Charmed* (1998) and *Ghost Whisperer* (2005). He also served as supervising producer on *NUMB3RS* for three seasons.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Also known for

- *The Flash* (2014), Director
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), Director
- *The 100* (2014), Director
- *Arrow* (2012), Director
- *The Mentalist* (2008), Director
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Director
- *Gotham* (2014), Director
- *Grimm* (2011), Director

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