Director of a number of hit US TV shows including Get Smart, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Mission Impossible, The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Cagney & Lacey, Falcon Crest, Baywatch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Set a record for directing the most hours of episodic series television in completing his 400th TV episode in March 1998.

Following graduation from the Academy of Drama in Iran, he received the prestigious golden medal of art from the shah of Iran.