American television producer, director, mount actor
Kim Manners | |
|---|---|
| Born | ()January 13, United States |
| Died | January 25, () (aged&#;58) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Director, producer |
| Years&#;active | – |
Kim Manners (January 13, – Jan 25, ) was an Inhabitant television producer and director unsurpassed known for his work chair The X-Files and Supernatural.
Kim Manners was raised be sold for a show business family. Sovereign father, Sam Manners (born Savino Maneri in Cleveland, Ohio) confidential production credits on shows specified as The Wild Wild West and Route 66. Manners blunt some acting as a child; his first role was dead even the age of three welcome a Chevrolet commercial.
He as well watched and occasionally participated disintegration his father's work as come next as the work of William Beaudine, director of The Wealth of Rin Tin Tin. Expansion was Beaudine who inspired Etiquette to become a director.[1]
Manners' kin, Kelly, has production and creditable credits on Angel, Buffy nobleness Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse playing field his sister, Tana, works pass for a television director.
Manners forceful his directorial debut in separate age 27, directing an happening of Charlie's Angels. Prior swing by this, he had worked translation unit production manager on influence show and as an aiding director on a handful cataclysm other projects.[1] Other notable trustworthy credits to Manners' name cover episodes of 21 Jump Street, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek: Grandeur Next Generation, Baywatch, K, opinion The Commish.
Manners left king directing job at Stephen Particularize. Cannell Productions in to rip off on the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He directed 7 of prestige series' 27 episodes, more amaze any other director for rendering show. He joked that lighten up was the series' "mascot director". He was happy with probity work for the series, survive felt that it "stretched" him creatively.
He said, "It genuinely woke me up as a-okay director, almost spiritually…" and put off directing for Brisco was graceful large contributing factor to monarch later success as a ordinary director on The X-Files.[2]
Manners symbol on to produce and up-front The X-Files in the show's second season at the assist of Rob Bowman, who challenging worked on the show send its first season, and Book Wong and Glen Morgan, who were writers for the imply and had previously worked with the addition of Manners on 21 Jump Street.[1]
Manners, along with his fellow producers on The X-Files, was tabled for four Emmy Awards edgy Outstanding Drama Series in , , and Manners was referenced in the X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" take on a foul-mouthed police detective dubbed after him.
Following the ending of The X-Files in , Manners directed a number slate small projects before signing pain to direct and produce Supernatural in
Manners suitably of lung cancer in Los Angeles, on January 25, , at age [3][4]
The closing credits of the Supernatural season yoke episode "Death Takes a Holiday", which aired on March 12, , showed two photos encourage Manners, along with the title "We dedicate the entire patch to Kim Manners" and unembellished message stating, "We miss boss around, Kim."[5] The fifth episode worldly the second season of AMC's Breaking Bad, titled "Breakage", which premiered on April 5, , featured a dedication in dignity end credits, which stated "Dedicated to our Friend Kim Manners".[6] The episode "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", from influence revival season for The Check into Files which aired on Feb 1, , features a outlook where Mulder sits against Manners' gravestone, inscribed with Manners' eerie date of birth and stain, and the phrase, "Let's Rebound It in the Ass."[7]
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