Michael Spiller

Biography

Michael Spiller is an American television director and cinematographer.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

92

Birth Date

1961-08-01 00:00:00

Birth Place

New Jersey, USA

Known For

• Mr. Ed

Credits

• production (4 credits)

  • Scrubs

    executive producer

    production
    2026
  • So Help Me Todd

    executive producer

    production

    - Are You There Todd? It’s Me, Margaret (2023) ... executive producer production

    - More Fang for Your Chuck (2023) ... executive producer production

    - 86’d (2023) ... executive producer production

    - Gloom and Boom (2023) ... executive producer production

    - The First Date Is the Deepest (2023) ... executive producer production
    2022
  • The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

    executive producer

    production

    - State of Play (2021) ... executive producer production

    - Head Games (2021) ... executive producer production

    - Change on the Fly (2021) ... executive producer production

    - Pond Hockey (2021) ... executive producer production

    - Spirit of the Ducks (2021) ... executive producer production
    2021
  • The Mindy Project

    executive producer

    production

    - It Had to Be You (2017) ... executive producer production

    - Danny in Real Life (2017) ... executive producer production

    - Doctors Without Boundaries (2017) ... executive producer production

    - Girl Gone Wild (2017) ... executive producer production

    - The Midwife's Tale (2017) ... executive producer production
    2012

• directing (40 credits)

  • Scrubs

    - My 2nd First Day (2026) ... director directing
    2026
  • Mr. Ed

    director

    directing
    2024
  • So Help Me Todd

    - Co-Pilot (2022) ... director directing
    2022
  • The Sex Lives of College Girls

    - Franklin the Fox (2024) ... director directing

    - Four to a Suite (2024) ... director directing
    2021
  • The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

    - State of Play (2021) ... director directing

    - Change on the Fly (2021) ... director directing

    - Dusters (2021) ... director directing
    2021
  • AJ and the Queen

    - Baton Rouge (2020) ... director directing
    2020
  • mixed-ish

    - This Charming Man (2020) ... director directing

    - True Colors (2020) ... director directing

    - Let Your Hair Down (2019) ... director directing
    2019
  • Whiskey Cavalier

    - Five Spies and a Baby (2019) ... director directing
    2019
  • Good Girls

    - Everything Must Go (2019) ... director directing
    2018
  • I Feel Bad

    - My Kids Barely Know Their Culture (2018) ... director directing
    2018
  • Champions

    - Deal or No Deal (2018) ... director directing

    - Nepotism (2018) ... director directing

    - Grandma Dearest (2018) ... director directing

    - I Think I'm Gonna Tolerate It Here (2018) ... director directing

    - Pilot (2018) ... director directing
    2018
  • Fresh Off the Boat

    - The Hand That Sits the Cradle (2018) ... director directing
    2015
  • black-ish

    - Move-In Ready (2021) ... director directing

    - Mad and Boujee (2019) ... director directing

    - Enough Is Enough (2019) ... director directing

    - Manternity (2017) ... director directing

    - Twindependence (2016) ... director directing
    2014
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    - The Cruise (2016) ... director directing
    2013
  • The Mindy Project

    - Decision 2016 (2016) ... director directing

    - While I Was Sleeping (2015) ... director directing

    - Best Man (2015) ... director directing

    - San Francisco Bae (2015) ... director directing

    - Stanford (2015) ... director directing
    2012
  • Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

    - Making Rent... (2012) ... director directing

    - Daddy's Girl... (2012) ... director directing
    2012
  • New Girl

    - See Ya (2012) ... director directing

    - Tomatoes (2012) ... director directing
    2011
  • Modern Family

    - Snapped (2019) ... director directing

    - Planes, Trains and Cars (2012) ... director directing

    - The Last Walt (2012) ... director directing

    - Aunt Mommy (2012) ... director directing

    - Me? Jealous? (2012) ... director directing
    2009
  • Better Off Ted

    - It's My Party and I'll Lie If I Want To (2010) ... director directing

    - The Long and Winding High Road (2010) ... director directing

    - Secrets and Lives (2009) ... director directing

    - You Are the Boss of Me (2009) ... director directing

    - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2009) ... director directing
    2009
  • Cougar Town

    - All the Wrong Reasons (2010) ... director directing

    - I Won't Back Down (2009) ... director directing
    2009
  • The Middle

    - Thanksgiving (2009) ... director directing

    - The Front Door (2009) ... director directing
    2009
  • The Riches

    - Dead Calm (2008) ... director directing
    2007
  • Aliens in America

    - Mom's Coma (2008) ... director directing
    2007
  • Samantha Who?

    - The Hypnotherapist (2007) ... director directing

    - The Wedding (2007) ... director directing
    2007
  • Big Shots

    - The Good, The Bad, and the Really Ugly (2007) ... director directing

    - Tall Dark and Hairless (2007) ... director directing
    2007
  • Ugly Betty

    - Betty Suarez Land (2008) ... director directing

    - Filing for the Enemy (2008) ... director directing

    - The Manhattan Project (2008) ... director directing

    - Twenty-Four Candles (2008) ... director directing

    - Bananas for Betty (2007) ... director directing
    2006
  • Big Day

    - The $10,000 Gift () ... director directing

    - The Ceremony (2007) ... director directing

    - Last Chance to Marry Jane (2007) ... director directing

    - War with the Neighbors (2007) ... director directing

    - Alice Can't Dance (2006) ... director directing
    2006
  • Big Love

    - Eviction (2006) ... director directing

    - Eclipse (2006) ... director directing
    2006
  • The Office

    - PDA (2011) ... director directing

    - The Search (2011) ... director directing
    2005
  • Jake in Progress

    - The Elaine-Elaine () ... director directing

    - The Annie-dote () ... director directing

    - The Lying, The Watch and Jake's Wardrobe (2006) ... director directing

    - Henry Porter and the Coitus Interruptus (2005) ... director directing

    - Check, Please (2) (2005) ... director directing
    2005
  • Kitchen Confidential

    - Dinner Date With Death (2005) ... director directing
    2005
  • Life As We Know It

    - Secrets and Lies (2004) ... director directing

    - Partly Cloudy, Chance of Sex (2004) ... director directing
    2004
  • Cracking Up

    - Panic House (2004) ... director directing
    2004
  • Oliver Beene

    - Catskills (2004) ... director directing

    - Oliver and the Otters (2004) ... director directing

    - X-Ray Specs (2004) ... director directing

    - Space Race (2003) ... director directing

    - A Day at the Beach (2003) ... director directing
    2003
  • Monk

    - Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame (2003) ... director directing
    2002
  • Do Over

    - Valentine's Day Dance () ... director directing
    2002
  • Greg the Bunny

    - Greg Gets Puppish (2002) ... director directing
    2002
  • Leap of Faith

    - Whole in One (2002) ... director directing
    2002
  • Scrubs

    - Our True Lies (2010) ... director directing

    - Our Mysteries (2009) ... director directing

    - Our First Day of School (2009) ... director directing

    - My Saving Grace (2009) ... director directing

    - My Jerks (2009) ... director directing
    2001
  • The Bernie Mac Show

    - Five Stages of Bryana (2004) ... director directing

    - Droobie or Not Droobie (2004) ... director directing

    - Pink Gold (2003) ... director directing

    - Bernie Mac Dance Party (2002) ... director directing
    2001

• actors (3 credits)

  • Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Scrubs

    - My Jerks (2009) ... The Balloon Guy actor actors
    2001
  • Sex and the City

    - The Monogamists (1998) ... Slick Guy actor actors
    1998

• camera (35 credits)

  • No Such Thing

    director of photography

    camera
    2002
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous

    director of photography

    camera
    1999
  • Hell's Kitchen

    director of photography

    camera
    1998
  • Henry Fool

    director of photography

    camera
    1998
  • Niagara, Niagara

    director of photography

    camera
    1998
  • Hanson: Tulsa, Tokyo & the Middle of Nowhere

    director of photography

    camera
    1997
  • The House of Yes

    director of photography

    camera
    1997
  • Flirt

    director of photography

    camera
    1996
  • Walking and Talking

    director of photography

    camera
    1996
  • Search and Destroy

    director of photography

    camera
    1995
  • Hand Gun

    director of photography

    camera
    1994
  • Amateur

    director of photography

    camera
    1994
  • Opera No. 1

    director of photography

    camera
    1994
  • Flirt

    director of photography

    camera
    1993
  • The Dark Half

    additional camera

    camera
    1993
  • The Adventures of Pete & Pete

    - Tool and Die (1993) ... director of photography camera

    - Rangeboy (1993) ... director of photography camera

    - The Nightcrawlers (1993) ... director of photography camera

    - Day of the Dot (1993) ... director of photography camera

    - The King of the Road (1993) ... director of photography camera
    1993
  • Lincoln and the War Within

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • Simple Men

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • Punch and Judy Get Divorced

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • Wadeck's Mother's Friend's Son

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • Ambition

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • Surviving Desire

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • The Smashing Pumpkins: Siva

    director of photography

    camera
    1991
  • Theory of Achievement

    director of photography

    camera
    1991
  • Age Isn't Everything

    director of photography

    camera
    1991
  • Angry

    director of photography

    camera
    1991
  • My Birthday Cake

    director of photography

    camera
    1991
  • Fishing with John

    - Thailand with Dennis Hopper (2) (1991) ... director of photography camera

    - Thailand with Dennis Hopper (1) (1991) ... director of photography camera

    - Maine with Willem Dafoe (1991) ... director of photography camera
    1991
  • Trust

    camera operator

    camera
    1990
  • The Unbelievable Truth

    director of photography

    camera
    1990
  • The Green Flash

    assistant camera

    camera
    1988
  • She Must Be Seeing Things

    assistant camera

    camera
    1988
  • The Cartographer's Girlfriend

    director of photography

    camera
    1987
  • Tommy's

    director of photography

    camera
    1985
  • Kid

    director of photography

    camera
    1984

• crew (8 credits)

  • The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Halloweenie

    cinematography

    crew
    1994
  • Flirt

    cinematography

    crew
    1993
  • Wadeck's Mother's Friend's Son

    cinematography

    crew
    1992
  • The Smashing Pumpkins: Siva

    cinematography

    crew
    1991
  • Theory of Achievement

    cinematography

    crew
    1991
  • No Picnic

    second unit cinematographer

    crew
    1990
  • Tommy's

    cinematography

    crew
    1985
  • Kid

    cinematography

    crew
    1984

• lighting (2 credits)

  • Working Girls

    gaffer

    lighting
    1987
  • Streetwalkin'

    electrician

    lighting
    1985