Ralph Hemecker

Ralph Hemecker is an episodic director for Once Upon a Time.

Biography
He began his television career as a title sequence creator and worked on the series Booker, Renegade, and Silk Stalkings. In 1990 he made his directorial debut with an episode of America's Most Wanted. He returned to Silk Stalkings as a director and helmed 9 episodes from 1991 to 1994. He also worked as a director on Renegade, shooting 11 episodes from 1992 to 1995. In 1994 he directed the feature film Dead On and episodes of the series Dead at 21 and Fortune Hunter.

He helmed his first pilot in the 1995 to 1996 television development season, Pacific Blue. During the season he directed episodes of Vanishing Son, Strange Luck, and Kindred: The Embraced. He also directed the television feature Rolling Thunder in 1996.

In the 1996 to 1997 development season he directed the pilots for Roar and Lawless. He also joined the crew of Millenium as an episodic director for the first season. Millenium was created by Chris Carter. He also directed an episode of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

In the 1997 to 1998 season he directed two further episodes of Millenium and an episode for Carter's earlier series The X-Files. In 1998 he directed the television feature Blade Squad and the film American Dragons.

In 1999 he directed the television feature The Wonder Cabinet. In 2000 he founded Mythic Films, a full service feature film, TV and commercial production company. Their first project was the television feature Witchblade, for which Hemecker served as the director. The project was based on a comic and a television spinoff was also commissioned. Hemecker served as the Executive Producer and show runner for the project. He co-wrote and directed the series pilot. The show lasted for two seasons from 2001 to 2002. He continued to write and direct frequently over its run.

After Witchblade he returned to television features directing Chasing Alice (2003), Haunting Sarah (2005), Fatal Desire (2006), and Angels Fall (2007). He joined the crew of Numb3rs as an episodic director for the fourth season in fall 2007. He returned to direct a further two episodes for the fifth season and three episodes of the sixth season. He also directed an episode of Ghost Whisperer in the 2009 to 2010 season. He directed the television features Midnight Bayou and Skyrunners in 2009. He

In the 2010 to 2011 season he directed for the series Vampire Diaries, V, and Nikita.

He joined the crew of Once Upon a Time as an episodic director for the first season in the 2011 to 2012 television season. He helmed the episodes "7:15 A.M." and "Hat Trick". He also directed an episode of NYC 22.

Director

 * "7:15 A.M."
 * "Hat Trick"