WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A television director with credits on Law & Order and other shows has been sentenced in New York to 10 years’ probation on child pornography charges.
Jace Alexander was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessing an obscene performance by a child.
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He had faced up to seven years in prison.
The 52-year-old must also register as a sex offender in New York.
Prosecutors say digital files showing minors engaged in sex acts were found on computers at the director’s Dobbs Ferry, New York, home last year.
Alexander had directed more than a dozen episodes of Law & Order since the mid-1990s. He also did work on The Blacklist and Rescue Me.
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The son of Emmy and Tony award–winning actress Jane Alexander, he also worked as an actor, playing a robber in the 1995 film Clueless and had a role in Crocodile Dundee II as well as the TV series Royal Pains and 2013 TV movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret.
He resigned his position as second vice president of the Directors Guild of America after his arrest in July 2015.
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