TJ Scott
TJ Scott (born 25 April 1960; age 65) is an actor, stuntman, writer, producer, and director who directed the Star Trek: Discovery first season episode "The Wolf Inside" and the second season episode "If Memory Serves".
Biography
Timothy James Scott was a child actor and stuntman in Canada, before moving to California to pursue a behind-the-scenes career, at first as second unit director before becoming a writer and director.
In the 1970s and 1980s he appeared in various movies and television series, both as a regular and as a stunt performer. Among those were several Police Academy movies, starring David Graf and with appearances by Kim Cattrall and Derek McGrath. His last acting appearance was a 1990 episode of Top Cops, the series that earned him his first writing credit. The same year he also performed stunts for the movie Stella, with Stephen Collins.
As a second unit director he worked on several television projects, including Friday the 13th: The Series and Robocop.
In 1991 he made his directorial debut, again with an episode of Top Cops. In the 1990s and 2000s he directed a wide variety of movies and episodes of television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Playmakers, Cleopatra 2525 and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
In the 2010s he directed episodes of Orphan Black (with Melanie Nicholls-King), Dark Matter, The Strain, Longmire and Gotham (with James Frain).
As a producer, he has worked on Teenagers and Caught (with Saul Rubinek). Scott later directed episodes of Frontier and Caught.