Dave Blass

David (Dave) Blass is an American art director and production designer.

His work includes the following:

• Production Design and Art Direction for television series:
  • Justified
  • Cold Case
  • ER
  • The Biggest Loser
  • Beauty and the Geek
  • Black Scorpion
  • Trivial Pursuit: America Plays
  • Shear Genius
  • Solitary
• Executive Producer for television series:
  • True Lives (a reality TV series directed by his brother Udo Blass)
• Director for television series episodes:
  • Black Scorpion episodes "Love Burns" and "Bad Sport"
• Production design for films:
  • Asylum (Robert Patrick, Malcolm McDowell)
  • Overdrive (Steve Guttenberg, Robert Wagner)
  • "Stray Bullet" (Robert Carradine)
• Writer/director credits:
  • Sexual Matrix (originally titled Possessions and Obsessions)
  • Being Emmanuelle
• Director for music videos:
  • Teutonic Terror and Pandemic (for the German Heavy Metal Band Accept)

Personal life

Blass grew up in Ashland, Massachusetts and graduated from the Ashland High School in 1986, where he wrote and directed his first film, A SADD Story, for "Students Against Drunk Driving" – which won a Reader's Digest contest.^[1][2] He also played soccer and baseball while at Ashland High.^[1][2] His film achievement in high school led to him receiving a scholarship to attend the Emerson College in Boston, where he majored in film production.^[1][2] He then moved to California and began working in the film and television industry – initially working under Roger Corman.^[1][2]

Blass was awarded^{[citation needed]} the title of Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky (most likely due to his design work on the FX television program Justified, which is set in Kentucky).

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Chris Bergeron, Ashland grad sets the scene on 'Justified', MetroWest Daily News, Jan. 23, 2011.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Jennifer Lord, Ashland grad recognized for TV art direction work, MetroWest Daily News, Feb. 18, 2007.

External links

• Dave Blass at the Internet Movie Database
• True Lives reality TV series
• Justified Official FX Website

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