Ron Murphy
He began his career as a personal assistant to John Candy in the late years of the actor's life, before moving into television directing in the 1990s with the children's financial educational television series Street Cents, and the comedy pilots The Daily Blade and Bowlerama. He became more widely known in the early 2000s for his work on The Gavin Crawford Show and Train 48.
Although he was not associated with the original 2001-2007 run of Trailer Park Boys, he directed the entire run of the followup series The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, and became a frequent director of Trailer Park Boys when it was revived in the mid-2010s, including the entirety of the upcoming 13th season. From 2019 through 2022, he directed every episode of the television comedy series Jann, including the finale Christmas special.
His feature film directorial debut, Back in Black, entered production in 2025. It is scheduled to premiere in the Centrepiece program at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.
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