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Rob Bailey (director)

American television director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7339959 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rob Bailey is an English television director. He has directed episodes of The Wire, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds and Without a Trace. He is a producer and regular director for CSI: NY. For The Wire he directed the tenth episode of the second season, "Storm Warnings", in 2003. He returned in 2004 to direct the third episode of the third season, "Dead Soldiers".

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The public source identifies “Rob Bailey (director)” as american television director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bailey, director and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bailey, director and American providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7339959. VIAF identifies the subject as 169529096. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rob Bailey (director)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.