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name: "Linda Day"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/linda-day"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "12 August 1938"
died: "23 October 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:02.184889+00:00"
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# Linda Day

Director. Born 12 August 1938 in Los Angeles. Died 23 October 2009.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 12 August 1938, Los Angeles
- **Died:** 23 October 2009

## Biography

Linda Day was an American television director who worked primarily on situation comedies. Born Linda Gail Brickner in Los Angeles, she was the daughter of film editor Roy Brickner. She began her career as a script supervisor on the 1976 television film *Victory at Entebbe* and the series *Soap*, later serving as an associate director on *WKRP in Cincinnati* before directing episodes of the show from 1980.

Day directed more than 350 episodes across 50 series. Her credits include the pilot and 32 further episodes of *Married... with Children* (1987), as well as episodes of *St. Elsewhere* (1982), *Dallas* (1978), *Who's the Boss?* (1984), *The Facts of Life* (1979), *Diff'rent Strokes* (1978), *The Nanny* (1993), *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* (1996) and *Reba* (2001). She received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, a Humanitas Prize, and was honoured by the Directors Guild of America for her work advancing opportunities for women in television. She died in Georgetown, Texas, in 2009.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *St. Elsewhere* (1982), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/st-elsewhere.md)

## Also known for

- *The Nanny* (1993), Director
- *Married... with Children* (1987), Director
- *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* (1996), Director
- *Who's the Boss?* (1984), Director
- *Diff'rent Strokes* (1978), Director
- *Mad About You* (1992), Director
- *Small Wonder* (1985), Director
- *Reba* (2001), Director

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