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Michael Alan Spiller
Highest Rated: 100% The Unbelievable Truth (1990)
Lowest Rated: 31% No Such Thing (2001)
Birthday: Aug 1, 1961
Birthplace: New Jersey, USA
Michael Spiller began his career as a director and cinematographer after meeting fledgling indie director Hal Hartley in college. Spiller then served as the director of photography on Hartley's most critically and commercially successful movies, including "The Unbelievable Truth" (1989), "Trust" (1990) and "Amateur" (1994). Spiller's New York background made him a natural choice to work as a cinematographer on HBO's paean to Manhattan "Sex and the City" 1998-2004); it was on this series that he began his directing career. Spiller carved out a career directing some of his era's most popular sitcoms, including "Scrubs" (NBC 2001-08, ABC 2009-10), "The Mindy Project" (Fox/Hulu 2012-17), and "Modern Family" (ABC 2010- ), for which he won both a Primetime Emmy and a Director's Guild award for Outstanding Directing.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31% | 59% | No Such Thing | Cinematographer | $60.0K | 2001 |
| 47% | 75% | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Cinematographer | $10.6M | 1999 |
| 55% | 44% | Star Trek: Insurrection |
Writer, Screenwriter |
$70.2M | 1998 |
| 62% | 76% | The House of Yes | Cinematographer | $636.2K | 1997 |
| 88% | 70% | Walking and Talking | Cinematographer | $1.3M | 1996 |
| 73% | 72% | Flirt | Cinematographer | $271.8K | 1995 |
| 33% | 41% | Search and Destroy | Cinematographer | - | 1995 |
| 91% | 89% | Simple Men | Cinematographer | $141.6K | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Theory of Achievement | Cinematographer | - | 1991 |
| 100% | 87% | The Unbelievable Truth | Cinematographer | $22.5K | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid | Cinematographer | - | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57% | 83% | Firefly Lane | Executive Producer | 2022-2023 |
| 56% | 85% | So Help Me Todd | Director | 2022 |
| 87% | 67% | The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers | Executive Producer | 2021-2022 |
| 76% | 60% | mixed-ish | Director | 2019-2021 |
| 92% | 55% | black-ish | Director | 2016-2019 2021 |
| 62% | 77% | Perfect Harmony | Director | 2020 |
| 85% | 90% | Modern Family | Director | 2010-2012 2019 |
| 78% | 79% | Whiskey Cavalier | Director | 2019 |
| 86% | 76% | Good Girls | Director | 2019 |
| 31% | 69% | I Feel Bad | Director | 2018 |
| 94% | 80% | Fresh Off the Boat | Director | 2018 |
| 63% | 67% | Champions | Executive Producer | 2018 |
| 86% | 83% | The Mindy Project |
Director, Executive Producer |
2013-2017 |
| 85% | 84% | Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 | Director | 2012-2013 |
| 81% | 89% | The Office | Director | 2011 |
| 89% | 95% | Better Off Ted | Director | 2009-2010 |
| 89% | 84% | Cougar Town | Director | 2009-2010 |
| 83% | 86% | Scrubs |
The Balloon Guy (Guest Star), Director |
2002-2006 2009-2010 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Middle | Director | 2009 |
| 68% | No Score Yet | Worst Week |
Unknown (Guest Star), Director |
2008-2009 |
| 97% | 83% | Ugly Betty | Director | 2007-2008 |
| 59% | No Score Yet | Do Over | Director | 2008 |
| 86% | 50% | The Riches | Director | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aliens in America | Director | 2008 |
| 77% | No Score Yet | Samantha Who? | Director | 2007 |
| 6% | No Score Yet | Big Shots | Director | 2007 |
| 50% | No Score Yet | Big Day | Director | 2006-2007 |
| 80% | 80% | Big Love | Director | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake in Progress | Director | 2005-2006 |
| 73% | No Score Yet | life as we know it | Director | 2004 |
| 91% | 88% | Monk | Director | 2003 |
| 70% | 80% | Sex and the City | Director | 1999-2001 |