James Halpern

James Halpern
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Role:	Associate Producer / Co-Producer
BSG Universe:	Re-imagined Series and Caprica
Date of Birth:
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James Halpern is a television producer whose association with the Re-imagined Series spans the full run of the franchise under David Eick's production banner. He served as assistant to Eick during Seasons 1 and 2 of the Re-imagined Series before ascending to associate producer and co-producer credits across Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Caprica, and related productions.

Career

Halpern's earliest confirmed screen credit is as a production assistant on The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), the Bob Rafelson-directed adaptation starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.

In 1998 he received a story credit on "Progeny," an episode of the ABC science fiction series Prey, which starred Debra Messing as a bio-anthropologist investigating a rival human species.

Halpern joined David Eick's production office for the Re-imagined Series miniseries and early seasons, working as assistant to Eick across approximately 37 episodes spanning Seasons 1 and 2 (2004–2006). His role placed him within the core Eick production unit—alongside colleagues such as Siân McArthur and Maril Davis—handling the daily administrative and logistical demands of a large-scale genre production filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

By 2006 and into the later seasons of the Re-imagined Series, Halpern transitioned to an associate producer credit, appearing on 36 episodes of the series in that capacity.

For the 2007 television film Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Halpern received an associate producer credit alongside Michael Rymer as producer and Andrew Seklir in the same capacity. He carried the same credit across all seven installments of the companion Razor Flashbacks webisode series released on Sci-Fi.com in the fall of 2007.

Also in 2007, Halpern followed Eick onto Bionic Woman, the NBC re-imagining of the 1970s series that Eick created and executive produced. Halpern served as associate producer across all eight episodes of the single-season series, which was produced in Vancouver and aired from September through November 2007 before cancellation.

Halpern continued working with the Eick organization on The Philanthropist (NBC, 2009), a drama series co-created by Tom Fontana and executive produced by Eick, Barry Levinson, and others. He received a co-producer credit on the series.

For the Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica (Syfy, 2009–2010), Halpern served across all 18 produced episodes, receiving associate producer credit on earlier episodes—including the 2009 pilot—and co-producer credit as the series progressed into its first and only season. In the back half of Caprica's broadcast run, his credit was listed as co-producer on individual episode full credits pages, reflecting an expanded production role.

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