Frederick E. O. Toye Explained

Frederick E. O. Toye
Birth Date:	26 September 1967
Birth Place:	Los Angeles, California
Alma Mater:	University of California, Santa Barbara
Occupation:	Television director, editor, producer
Years Active:	1989–present

Frederick E. O. Toye (born September 26, 1967) is an American television director and occasional producer. His directorial work in 2016 includes an episode in the final season of The Good Wife, the 100th episode of Person of Interest, several episodes for BrainDead and the miniseries 11.22.63, and for the HBO series Westworld.^[1]

Early life and education

Toye attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.A. He is a great-grandson of the opera singer Marguerite Namara.

Career

Toye began his career as a production assistant for five years and an editor for 15 years, before becoming a television director.^[2] He is a frequent collaborator of J. J. Abrams. He has directed, edited, and co-produced several episodes of the ABC series, Alias,^[3] as well as serving as a producer and occasional director on the Fox science fiction series Fringe.

He has also directed episodes of: Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Brothers & Sisters, The 4400, Moonlight, V, , Chuck, The Good Wife, Falling Skies, Person of Interest, Fallout and other series.

Television work

• 11.22.63
  • episode 1.02 "The Kill Floor"
  • episode 1.04 "The Eyes of Texas"
• The 4400
  • episode 3.11 "The Gospel According to Collier"
• Alias
  • episode 4.13 "Tuesday"
  • episode 5.02 "...1..."
  • episode 5.04 "Mockingbird"
  • episode 5.13 "30 Seconds"
  • episode 5.16 "Reprisal"
• Almost Human
  • episode 1.12 "Beholder"
• American Gods
  • episode 2.02 "The Begulling Man"
• The Boys
  • episode 1.04 "The Female of the Species"
  • episode 2.04 "Nothing Like It in the World"
  • episode 3.04 "Glorious Five Year Plan"
  • episode 4.03 "We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here"
• BrainDead
  • episode 1.06 "Notes Toward a Post-Reagan Theory of Party Alliance, Tribalism, and Loyalty: Past as Prologue"
  • episode 1.07 "The Power of Euphemism: How Torture Became a Matter of Debate in American Politics"
• Brothers & Sisters
  • episode 1.06 "For the Children"
  • episode 1.10 "Light the Lights"
• Chuck
  • episode 1.12 "Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover"
  • episode 3.05 "Chuck Versus the First Class"
  • episode 3.15 "Chuck Versus the Role Models"
  • episode 4.17 "Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil"
  • episode 5.09 "Chuck Versus the Kept Man"
• • episode 5.02 "Page Turner"
  • episode 7.15 "Vigilante"
  • episode 8.01 "Indelible"
• Evil
  • episode 1.09 "Exorcism Part 2"
• Falling Skies
  • episode 1.04 "Grace"
  • episode 1.05 "Silent Kill"
• Fallout
  • episode 1.06 "The Trap"
  • episode 1.07 "The Radio"
• Fringe
  • episode 1.03 "The Ghost Network"
  • episode 1.09 "The Dreamscape"
  • episode 1.11 "Bound"
  • episode 1.15 "Inner Child"
  • episode 1.19 "The Road Not Taken"
  • episode 2.11 "Unearthed"
  • episode 3.15 "Subject 13"
  • episode 4.16 "Nothing As It Seems"
• Ghost Whisperer
  • episode 2.04 "The Ghost Within"
  • episode 2.18 "Children of Ghosts"
  • episode 3.07 "Unhappy Medium"
  • episode 3.09 "All Ghosts Lead to Grandview"
  • episode 3.14 "The Gravesitter"
• The Good Wife
  • episode 1.22 "Hybristophilia"
  • episode 2.20 "Foreign Affairs"
  • episode 3.04 "Feeding the Rat"
  • episode 3.13 "Bitcoin for Dummies"
  • episode 3.14 "Another Ham Sandwich"
  • episode 4.05 "Waiting for the Knock"
  • episode 4.19 "The Wheels of Justice"
  • episode 5.07 "The Next Week"
  • episode 6.05 "Shiny Objects"
• Hawaii Five-0
  • episode 1.11 "Palekaiko"
  • episode 2.19 "Kalele"
  • episode 3.02 "Kanalua"
• Invasion
  • episode 1.16 "The Fittest"
• Lost
  • episode 3.18 "D.O.C."
• Melrose Place
  • episode 1.04 "Vine"
• Miami Medical
  • episode 1.12 "Down to the Bone"
• Moonlight
  • episode 1.02 "Out of the Past"
  • episode 1.04 "Fever"
  • episode 1.16 "Sonata"
• Mrs. Davis
  • episode 1.07 "Great Gatsby 2001: A Space Odyssey"
• Person of Interest
  • episode 1.07 "Witness"
  • episode 1.21 "Many Happy Returns"
  • episode 2.07 "Critical"
  • episode 2.15 "Booked Solid"
  • episode 3.02 "Nothing to Hide"
  • episode 3.09 "The Crossing"
  • episode 3.21 "Beta"
  • episode 4.03 "Wingman"
  • episode 4.16 "Blunt"
  • episode 4.21 "Asylum"
  • episode 5.10 "The Day the World Went Away"
• Revolution
  • episode 1.10 "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
  • episode 1.19 "Children of Men"
  • episode 2.05 "One Riot, One Ranger"
  • episode 2.17 "Why We Fight"
• Rizzoli & Isles
  • episode 2.09 "Gone Daddy Gone"
  • episode 3.07 "Crazy for You"
• See
  • episode 1.07 "The Lavender Road"
• Shōgun
  • episode 1.04 "The Eightfold Fence"
  • episode 1.05 "Broken to the Fist"
  • episode 1.09 "Crimson Sky"
  • episode 1.10 "A Dream of a Dream"
• Snowpiercer
  • episode 1.04 "Without Their Maker"
  • episode 1.05 "Justice Never Boarded"
• Undercovers
  • episode 1.09 "A Night to Forget"
• V
  • episode 1.03 "A Bright New Day"
  • episode 1.09 "Heretic's Fork"
• Vegas
  • episode 1.13 "Road Trip"
• The Walking Dead
  • episode 11.03 "Hunted"
  • episode 11.04 "Rendition"
• Watchmen
  • episode 1.09 "See How They Fly"
• Westworld
  • episode 1.06 "The Adversary"
  • episode 1.07 "Trompe L'Oeil"
  • episode 2.10 "The Passenger"

Notes and References

1. Web site: A Primetime Evolution: Fred Toye & The Good Life. impactmania.com. August 22, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160915024342/http://www.impactmania.com/article/a-primetime-evolution-fred-toye-the-good-life/. September 15, 2016. dead.
2. Web site: Q&A with Television Director Fred Toye. Weston. Judith. June 6, 2011. judithweston.com. August 20, 2016.
3. Book: Abbott. Stacey. Brown. Simon. Investigating Alias: secrets and spies. 2007. I.B.Tauris. 978-1-84511-405-3. 217.