Rohl, Mike (Michael Rohl)

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Rohl, Mike (Michael Rohl)

PERSONAL

Full name, Michael J. Rohl.

Addresses:

Agent—Lee Dinstman, Agency for the Performing Arts, 405 South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Director. Also worked as improvisational comedian, and as assistant director and second unit director.

Awards, Honors:

Audience Favorite, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, 1999, for Zacharia Farted; Leo Award, best director of a dramatic series, Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, 2001, for "Down to Earth," The Outer Limits; Team Award nomination (with others), outstanding achievement in a television drama series, Directors Guild of Canada, 2004, for "Cabin Pressure," The Dead Zone.

CREDITS

Television Director; Series:

First Wave, Sci-Fi Channel, multiple episodes, between 1998 and 2001.

The Outer Limits (also known as The New Outer Limits), Showtime and syndicated, multiple episodes, between 1999 and 2001.

Andromeda (also known as Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda"), syndicated, multiple episodes, between 2000 and 2002.

(Sometimes credited as Michael Rohl) 1-800-Missing (also known as Missing), Lifetime, multiple episodes, between 2003 and 2006.

(Sometimes credited as Michael Rohl) The Dead Zone (also known as Stephen King's "The Dead Zone"), USA Network, multiple episodes, between 2003 and 2007.

(Sometimes credited as Michael Rohl) Smallville (also known as Smallville Beginnings and Smallville: Superman the Early Years), multiple episodes, The WB, 2006, then CW Network, 2006—.

Television Director; Movies:

Ghosts of Christmas Past, Country Music Television, 2002.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Still Waters," Poltergeist: The Legacy, Sci-Fi Channel, 1999.

"She's Got the Devil in Her Heart," Poltergeist: The Legacy, Sci-Fi Channel, 1999.

"Ships that Pass in the Night," Hope Island, PAX, 1999.

"Twenty Sailors around a Buttonhole," Hope Island, PAX, 2000.

"The Kids Stay in the Picture," Higher Ground, Fox Family Channel, 2000.

"Handshake," Mysterious Ways, PAX, 2000.

"World without Lobo," Los luchadores, Fox, 2001.

"Puppy Love," Los luchadores, Fox, 2001.

"Confrontation in the Constellation," Los Luchadores, Fox, 2001.

Don't Eat the Neighbours (also known as Big Teeth, Bad Breath), YTV, 2001.

"The Candidate," The Chris Isaak Show, Showtime, 2004.

(As Michael Rohl) "Sleepless in Seattle," Kyle XY, ABC Family Channel, 2006.

(As Michael Rohl) "Diving In," Kyle XY, ABC Family Channel, 2006.

"Political Eyes," Angela's Eyes, Lifetime, 2006.

"Lyin' Eyes," Angela's Eyes, Lifetime, 2006.

(As Michael Rohl) "A Father's Story," Close to Home, CBS, 2006.

"Right as Raynes," Eureka (also known as A Town Called Eureka), Sci-Fi Channel, 2006.

"The Usual Suspects," Supernatural, CW Network, 2006.

(As Michael Rohl) "Phoenix Rising," Eureka (also known as A Town Called Eureka), Sci-Fi Channel, 2007.

(As Michael Rohl) "Games People Play," Eureka (also known as A Town Called Eureka), Sci-Fi Channel, 2007.

"God Is in the Details," Eureka (also known as A Town Called Eureka), Sci-Fi Channel, 2007.

(As Michael Rohl) "All Mine," Reaper, CW Network, 2007.

"Folsom Prison Blues," Supernatural, CW Network, 2007.

"Bedtime Stories," Supernatural, CW Network, 2007.

"What He Beheld," Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox, 2008.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Helmsman at the bridge, Dead Fire (also known as Le vaisseau de l'enfer), Sci-Fi Channel, 1997.

SWAT team leader, Sleeping Dogs, Sci-Fi Channel, 1998.

Film Director:

(As Michael Rohl) Hell Mountain (also known as Chained Heat: The Horror of Hell Mountain, Chained Heat 3: Hell Mountain, and Chained Heat 3: The Horror of Hell Mountain), North American Releasing, 1998.

Zacharia Farted, Jupiter Films/Windowshot Productions, 1998.

Film Appearances; As Michael Rohl:

Klein, Crackerjack 2 (also known as Hostage Train), North American Releasing, 1996.

Director, We All Fall Down, Critical Mass Releasing, 2000.

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