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Leon Ichaso
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Miami Vice Director
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"Little Miss Dangerous"
"Killshot" (also writer) "Better Living Through Chemistry" "The Rising Sun of Death" "Indian Wars" |
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Born
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August 3, 1948, Havana, Cuba
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Died
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May 21, 2023, Los Angeles, California (age 74, heart attack)
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Active
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1979-2023
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Leon Ichaso (August 3, 1948 - May 21, 2023) was a Cuban director and writer, who directed the episodes "Little Miss Dangerous", "Killshot", "Better Living Through Chemistry", "The Rising Sun of Death", and "Indian Wars", and wrote the episode "Killshot" for the show Miami Vice.
Career[]
Ichaso was born in Havana, Cuba. He, along with his mother & sister, left Cuba for Mexico after the Revolution, his father reunited with them after five years. His directing specialty is grim realism. He made his directorial debut in 1979's El Super (also wrote and produced), other directorial assignments include Crossover Dreams (with Ruben Blades, Tom Signorelli, and Shawn Elliott), several episodes of Crime Story (with Dennis Farina) and The Equalizer, the TV movie The Take (with Ray Sharkey, R. Lee Ermey, and Alfredo Alvarez Calderon), the movies Sugar Hill (with Wesley Snipes and Clarence Williams III), and Piñero (also wrote and produced, with Giancarlo Esposito, Rita Moreno, and Jaime L. Sanchez), the TV series Sleeper Cell, Medium, The Cleaner (with Julio Oscar Mechoso), Criminal Minds and its' spin-off Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Prodigal Son (with Lou Diamond Phillips), and his final directorial role, in Queen of the South (with Joaquim de Almeida and David Andrews).
Death[]
Ichaso died from a heart attack on May 21, 2023, in Los Angeles at the age of 74, per a social media posting from his sister.