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Bruce Alan Solow (23 December 19544 July 2001; age 46) was an assistant director who worked as first assistant director on the two Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episodes "Allegiance" and "Tin Man". 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 the musical comedy Roadie (1980). Also in 1979 he was the additional second assistant director on Steven Spielberg's war comedy 1941 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 Eyes of Fire (1983) with Ivy Bethune and Mike Genovese and as a lysol pervert in Scarred (1983).

Through the 1980s, Solow worked as second assistant director on several television series including Laverne & Shirley (1980-1981), Bay City Blues (1983, starring Michael Nouri), Remington Steele (1984), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1984-1985), Cagney & Lacey (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), The Children of Times Square (1986), the television comedy Double Switch (1987), Six Against the Rock (1987), Prince of Darkness (1987, with Jessie Lawrence Ferguson), Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987), and Born to Race (1988).

Prior to his work on The Next Generation, Solow was the second assistant director on Blind Faith (1990), the additional second assistant director on the drama Catchfire (1990, with Dean Stockwell), and the second assistant director on Lucky Chances (1990). Following work as first assistant director on the television movie Saturday's (1991) and Diary of a Hitman (1991), Solow worked as second assistant director on the television mini-series Lady Boss (1992) and several episodes of NYPD Blue (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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