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Michael Katleman

Highest Rated: 22% Cyborg (1989)

Lowest Rated: 21% Primeval (2007)

Birthday: Jun 30, 1950

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

Primarily a television director, Michael Katleman is perhaps best known for his feature film debut, "Primeval." Katleman began his career as an assistant director on television series and movies like the Whoopi Goldberg comedy "Jumpin' Jack Flash," the Ritchie Valens biopic "La Bamba," and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction thriller "Predator." Katleman's directorial debut came in 1990 with the critically acclaimed Vietnam War drama series "China Beach." From there, he directed episodes of a number of popular shows, including "Quantum Leap," "The X-Files," "Northern Exposure," and "ER." In the early 2000s, Katleman helmed several episodes of the hit comedy-drama "Gilmore Girls" (on which he also served as an executive producer), as well as the two-hour finale of Steven Spielberg's science fiction miniseries "Taken." He oversaw episodes of the superhero drama "Smallville" and FOX's supernatural series "Tru Calling," which he again produced. In 2007, Katleman directed his first feature, the horror film "Primeval," about a giant man-eating crocodile living in the swamps of the Eastern African country Burundi. Following his foray into film, Katleman returned to television with the science fiction series "Life on Mars"; "Eastwick," starring Rebecca Romijn and based on John Updike's novel "The Witches of Eastwick"; and the Jason Lee drama "Memphis Beat," all of which he also produced.

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Highest rated movies

22% 31% Cyborg Watchlist
21% 32% Primeval
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No Child of Mine
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La Araña y la Mosca
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The Spider and the Fly
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Bloodhounds
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
21% 32% Primeval Director $10.6M 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bloodhounds Director - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet La Araña y la Mosca Director - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Spider and the Fly Director - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Child of Mine Director - 1993
22% 31% Cyborg First Assistant Director $9.3M 1989

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 44% FBI: International Executive Producer,
Director,
Writer
2021-2024
45% 60% Cowboy Bebop Executive Producer 2021
56% 77% The Fix Executive Producer,
Director
2019
82% 64% Zoo Executive Producer,
Director
2015-2017
71% 53% Designated Survivor Director 2016
88% 85% How to Get Away With Murder Director 2015
57% 74% Star-Crossed Director 2014
93% 72% Scandal Director 2012-2013
79% 70% Falling Skies Director 2012
63% 63% The River Director 2012
18% 67% Off the Map Director 2011
86% 72% The Vampire Diaries Director 2011
39% No Score Yet My Generation Director 2010
33% No Score Yet Scoundrels Director 2010
71% 77% Life Unexpected Director 2010
34% 44% Eastwick Director 2009-2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Life on Mars Director 2008-2009
6% No Score Yet Big Shots Director 2007-2008
88% No Score Yet Jack & Bobby Director 2005
93% No Score Yet Everwood Director 2003
88% No Score Yet Maybe It's Me Director 2002
78% 70% Smallville Director 2002
No Score Yet 88% Gilmore Girls Director 2000-2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jack & Jill Director 2001
No Score Yet 77% Dawson's Creek Director 2000
30% No Score Yet Mercy Point Director 1998-1999
No Score Yet 33% Cupid Director 1999
63% 100% American Gothic Director 1995
No Score Yet 87% Northern Exposure Director 1991-1993
74% 86% The X-Files Director 1993
No Score Yet 93% Beverly Hills, 90210 Director 1991
No Score Yet 90% Quantum Leap Director 1991