WOODLAND HILLS : Director Arrested for Lewd Conduct

A television director was arrested Wednesday for secretly filming women using a restroom at a Warner Center office complex, Los Angeles police said.

Niles Goodsite, 52, of Chatsworth, was booked for the misdemeanor charge of loitering in a restroom with the intention to commit a lewd act, police said.

The incident occurred after Goodsite sneaked into a first-floor bathroom at Warner Gateway Plaza, 21820 Burbank Blvd., at about 11:55 a.m., said Detective Nancy Severns of the West Valley station’s sex crime unit.

After he went into a stall and closed the door behind him, Goodsite sat on a toilet and angled a video camera under adjoining stalls for more than an hour, police said. He filmed more than 15 women using the toilet before he was caught, Severns said.

Detectives said several women had noticed a pair of men’s shoes under the stall door, but most thought a man had mistakenly gone into the wrong room.

But after a woman spotted Goodsite’s camera she alerted a male maintenance worker, who held Goodsite while two women grabbed his camera and a videotape--which Goodsite tried to drop in a toilet, police said.

Goodsite, a member of the Director’s Guild of America since 1977, is credited with directing sitcoms, dramas, news and other television genres, a guild spokeswoman said.