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Michael Spiller is a Actor, Additional Camera, Cinematography and Gaffer American born on 1 august 1961 at New Jersey (USA)

Michael Spiller

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Birth name Michael Alan Spiller
Nationality USA
Birth 1 august 1961 (62 years) at New Jersey (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award

Michael Alan Spiller (born August 1, 1961) is an American cinematographer and television director.

Spiller has directed on numerous series and has also served as a cinematographer prior to directing and worked frequently with Hal Hartley. He was a regular director on the HBO series, Sex and the City where he also served as director of photography during the first four seasons. After Sex and the City, Spiller continued to direct on series such as Scrubs, Jake in Progress, The Bernie Mac Show and has directed two episodes of the HBO series, Big Love which premiered in March 2006. Spiller was also a producer on the series Jake in Progress and Big Day.

In 2011, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the Modern Family episode "Halloween".

Spiller was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Usually with

Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley
(8 films)
Ted Hope
Ted Hope
(8 films)
Bill Sage
Bill Sage
(5 films)
Matt Malloy
Matt Malloy
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michael Spiller (18 films)

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Actor

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Robin Tunney, Miguel Arteta, Bob Gosse, Edie Falco, Nicholas Sean Gomez(Nick Gomez), Danny Leiner
Roles Self
Rating72% 3.613313.613313.613313.613313.61331
The documentary looks at the independent film distribution company The Shooting Gallery, which experienced a rise in popularity due to their distribution of films like You Can Count on Me and Laws of Gravity. Ransick looks at the company starting with their start in the early nineties to their crash in later years.
Campus Man
Campus Man (1987)
, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors John Dye, Kim Delaney, John Welch (Welsh), Kathleen Wilhoite, Miles O'Keeffe, Morgan Fairchild
Roles Undercover Cop
Rating47% 2.3650652.3650652.3650652.3650652.365065
Todd Barrett est un brillant étudiant en marketing, mais selon son professeur-mentor, il lui manque ‘’l’idée’’ qui fera de lui le meilleur!

Cameraman

No Such Thing, 1h42
Directed by Hal Hartley
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors Sarah Polley, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie, Robert John Burke, Baltasar Kormákur, Erica Gimpel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.999632.999632.999632.999632.99963
Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a young woman working in a media center under a woman known only as The Boss (Helen Mirren). She receives a recording from her fiancé Jim, who has been sent as part of a small production crew to Iceland to investigate a Monster that lives there. Determined to find her fiancé, Beatrice convinces her boss to send her to Iceland, but her plane crashes. She is the only survivor and, in order to walk again, undergoes an extremely painful, radical surgery. As she recovers, she befriends Dr. Anna (Julie Christie), who helps her travel to the remote village where the monster lives.
Drop Dead Gorgeous, 1h37
Directed by Michael Patrick Jann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Actors Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Sam McMurray
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3485953.3485953.3485953.3485953.348595
In 1995, Mount Rose is preparing for its annual beauty pageant. Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst) is an optimistic teenager who signs up to compete in the pageant so she can follow in the footsteps of her idols, Diane Sawyer, and her mother, a former contestant. Amber and her mother, Annette Atkins (Ellen Barkin), live in a small trailer near their friend Loretta (Allison Janney), in stark contrast to fellow contestant Rebecca Leeman (Denise Richards), the daughter of the richest man in town, and her mother, Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), who is the head of the pageant organizing committee and also a former winner. Various business connections between the Leeman Furniture Store and the judges of the pageant cause many to speculate that the contest will be rigged or fixed.
Henry Fool
Henry Fool (1998)
, 2h17
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors James Urbaniak, Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.546253.546253.546253.546253.54625
Socially inept garbage-man Simon Grim is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty rogue and untalented novelist. Henry opens the world of literature to Simon, and inspires him to write "the great American poem". Simon struggles to get his work recognized, and it is often dismissed as pornographic tat, but Henry continues to push and inspire Simon to get the poem published.
Niagara, Niagara, 1h33
Directed by Bob Gosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Henry Thomas, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks, Stephen Lang, John Ventimiglia, Candy Clark
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.446533.446533.446533.446533.44653
Seth et Marcy se rencontrent par hasard dans un magasin. Lui doit s'occuper d'un père malade. Elle est atteinte du syndrome de Tourette, une maladie qui provoque des tics incontrôlables. Ensemble, ils partent pour un voyage vers Toronto à la recherche d'une poupée Barbie spéciale pour Marcy, et entament une étonnante aventure.
Hell's Kitchen, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Rosanna Arquette, Angelina Jolie, William Forsythe, Mekhi Phifer, Johnny Whitworth, Jade Yorker
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46% 2.309312.309312.309312.309312.30931
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was not the ex-con's and can't bring himself to do the task. Meanwhile, the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender.
Walking and Talking, 1h26
Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Corrigan, Vincent Pastore
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3460753.3460753.3460753.3460753.346075
Amelia (Keener) and Laura (Heche) are childhood best friends. Amelia is left feeling vulnerable when Laura and her boyfriend Frank get engaged. She begins to date Bill (Kevin Corrigan), the local clerk at the video rental store she frequents. Though she initially is off put by his looks and his obsession with scifi and horror films she begins to grow attracted to him when she learns he is working on a screenplay about the life of Colette. The two have sex, however while Amelia is in the bathroom she receives a call from Laura asking how her date was with "the ugly guy". Hurt after hearing this Bill abruptly leaves.
Flirt
Flirt (1995)
, 1h25
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Bill Sage, Parker Posey, Robert John Burke, Martin Donovan, Miho Nikaido, Erica Gimpel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.1484653.1484653.1484653.1484653.148465
In New York, Bill (Bill Sage) struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily (Parker Posey), while attempting to restrain Walter (Martin Donovan), the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with.
Search and Destroy, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Mafia films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Gangster films
Actors Griffin Dunne, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Ethan Hawke, Rosanna Arquette
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53% 2.6524152.6524152.6524152.6524152.652415
Middle-aged Martin Mirkhein (Griffin Dunne) is a complete failure. He's run a successful business into debt, his marriage is falling apart, and now he owes the IRS $147,956 in back taxes. Martin may not have much going for him but he has read "Daniel Strong," a best-selling, self-help novel by the popular TV guru Dr. Waxling on YouTube (Dennis Hopper). Now he wants to turn the novel into a major motion picture. To do that, Martin needs the rights and the revenue. Given his grating personality and terrible track record, it won't be easy to get hold of either. He sets out to meet with Dr. Waxling but ends up sleeping with Waxling's screenwriter-assistant Marie (Illeana Douglas) instead. Determined to make a movie, Martin and Marie move to New York. There, they get involved with wealthy Kim Ulander (Christopher Walken), an enigmatic businessman with quirky tendencies and a repressed desire to live dangerously. If they aren't careful, this daring duo may not come out of this deal alive.
Amateur
Amateur (1994)
, 1h45
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, Michael Gaston, Damian Young, Parker Posey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.396423.396423.396423.396423.39642
Donovan plays Thomas, an amnesiac trying to put his life back together, who meets an ex-nun (Huppert) writing pornographic stories. The scenes of overt violence were new territory for Hartley, but the film was still in his usual deadpan and dialogue-driven style.
The Dark Half, 1h56
Directed by George A. Romero
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about writers, Serial killer films
Actors Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Rutanya Alda, Chelsea Field
Roles Second Unit Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.000043.000043.000043.000043.00004
The author of highbrow literary novels under his own name, Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) is better known for the bestselling suspense-thrillers he writes under the pen name "George Stark". Beaumont wishes to retire the Stark name and symbolically buries Stark in a mock grave.
Simple Men
Simple Men (1992)
, 1h41
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Political films
Actors Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Holly Marie Combs
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.5462053.5462053.5462053.5462053.546205
Brothers Bill and Dennis reunite after their anarchist father escapes from the hospital.
Surviving Desire, 1h
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Martin Donovan, Matt Malloy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.594163.594163.594163.594163.59416
College professor Jude (Donovan) becomes smitten with a student named Sofie (Ward). The two enjoy a brief time together, only to find that numerous obstacles, both tangible and intangible, prevent them from moving forward. Their conflict begins to expose parallels with the themes Jude covers in his literature class.
The Unbelievable Truth, 1h30
Directed by Hal Hartley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, David Healy, Matt Malloy, Edie Falco, Paul Schulze
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.595763.595763.595763.595763.59576
Audry is expected to remain with her high-school boyfriend and become a successful fashion model, but she instead becomes interested in a man of mystery, a man with at least one manslaughter in his past. Many characters speculate about how many people he might have killed, and the stories of his past are taller every time they are told. A genius mechanic who is uncomfortable with relationships, he has to learn to adapt to the interest of this woman supposedly beyond his reach, and to learn to trust his instincts when he has to fight to win her back.