Ken Olin
A dark, handsome, sensitive leading actor of television who, after off-Broadway and TV experience, gained some attention amid stiff competition for his recurring role on two seasons of NBC's "Hill Street Blues." Olin was subsequently saddled with an archetypal soap opera role on CBS' "Falcon Crest" (to which, to his credit, he brought a certain low-keyed conviction): a priest who has a torrid affair with one of his parishioners. It was not until his fourth TV series, the acclaimed ABC drama "thirtysomething," that Olin really found a role that properly showcased his casual sincerity and charm, yuppie Michael Steadman, an advertising executive who introspectively worried about whether he was a good husband, a good father, a good friend, and a good Jew, sometimes simultaneously.
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Ken Olin
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Phenomenon II | Director | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Evolution's Child | James Mydell (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Y2K | Nick Cromwell (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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The Advocate's Devil | Abe Ringel (Character) | - | 1997 |
5% |
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'Til There Was You | Gregory (Character) | $3.5M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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In Pursuit of Honor | Director | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nothing but the Truth | Dr. Peter Clayman (Character) | - | 1995 |
71% |
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White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf | Director | $8.7M | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Doing Time on Maple Drive | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Broken Cord | Director | - | 1992 |
30% |
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Queens Logic | Ray (Character) | $301.6K | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Night, Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston | Charles Stuart (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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A Stoning in Fulham County | Jim Sandler (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story: Cop Killers | Officer Manny Mandell (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Game of Love | Henry Fox (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tonight's the Night | Henry Fox (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There Must Be a Pony | Jay Savage (Character) | - | 1986 |
28% |
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Ghost Story | Young James (Character) | - | 1981 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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89% | 65% | Tracker |
Executive Producer, Director |
2024 |
94% | 81% | This Is Us |
Director, Executive Producer |
2017-2022 |
74% | 75% | Grand Hotel | Director | 2019 |
97% | 89% | The Good Place | Director | 2018 |
82% | 64% | Zoo | Robert Oz (Guest Star) | 2015-2017 |
No Score Yet | 76% | The Arrangement | Director | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
79% | 84% | Brothers & Sisters |
David Caplan (Guest Star), Director, Executive Producer |
2006-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Guest | 2009-2010 |
60% | 100% | Eli Stone | Director | 2008 |
86% | 89% | Alias |
David McNeil (Guest Star), Director, Executive Producer |
2001-2006 |
62% | No Score Yet | Breaking News | Executive Producer | 2002 |
81% | 95% | The West Wing | Director | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Felicity | Director | 1999-2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judging Amy | Director | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L.A. Doctors |
Dr. Roger Cattan (Character), Director |
1998-1999 |
83% | No Score Yet | EZ Streets |
Det. Cameron Quinn (Character), Director |
1996-1997 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething | Michael Steadman (Character) | 1987-1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Falcon Crest | Father Christopher (Character) | 1981-1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hitchhiker | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Perry Revere (Guest Star) | 1986 |
97% | 85% | Hill Street Blues |
Harry Garibaldi (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1984-1985 |