Bruce Alan Solow

Bruce Alan Solow was an assistant director who worked as first assistant director on the two third season episodes and . On the latter episode he was credited as Bruce Allen Solow.
Solow was born in Los Angeles, California and started to work in the entertainment industry in the late 1970s when he was the second assistant director on the television thriller The Death of Ocean View Park (1979) and (1980). Also in 1979 he was the additional second assistant director on on which he worked with fellow Trek assistant director Chris Soldo. In 1982, Solow served as associate producer on the short film Rocket to Stardom and the following years he made two appearances as an actor: As a townsman in (1983) with Ivy Bethune and Mike Genovese and as a lysol pervert in (1983).
Through the 1980s, Solow worked as second assistant director on several television series including (1980-1981), Bay City Blues (1983, starring Michael Nouri), (1984), (1984-1985), (1986), Beauty and the Beast (1987, starring Ron Perlman), and Miami Vice (1988-1990). On Miami Vice he also started to work as first assistant director. Further credits as second assistant director include the television drama Seduced (1985), (1986), the television comedy Double Switch (1987), (1987), (1987, with Jessie Lawrence Ferguson), (1987), and (1988).
Prior to his work on The Next Generation, Solow was the second assistant director on (1990), the additional second assistant director on the drama Catchfire (1990, with Dean Stockwell), and the second assistant director on (1990). Following work as first assistant director on the television movie Saturday's (1991) and (1991), Solow worked as second assistant director on the television mini-series Lady Boss (1992) and several episodes of (1993-1994) and High Incident (1996). High Incident was Solow's last known work in the entertainment industry. In 1995 he became a corporate headhunter.
Solow passed away in 2001 in Ojai, California due to cancer. He is survived by his wife of seventeen years, Corinne, and two children.
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