Kim MannersFilmography

Occupation:
Director
Biography:
Television director Kim Manners was a part of Hollywood from the moment he was born in 1950. His father was involved in the production of multiple TV shows, and Manners himself began appearing in TV commercials when he was only three. Eventually, Manners began working behind the scenes, and in...Read More

  • Empire

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The assassination of Julius Caesar has plunged Rome into chaos, and the only hope for the once-thriving empire lies in the ability of his 18-year-old nephew Octavius to defeat the manipulative Marc Anthony in this epic miniseries starring Santiago Cabrera and directed by John Gray, Kim Manners Read More

    2005

  • Supernatural [TV Series]

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Synopsis: A joint effort of filmmakers McG, Eric Kripke, and Robert Singer, the weekly, hour-long series Supernatural starred Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester, the sons of a dogged and determined "spook hunter." Since the death of his wife at the hands of malevolent poltergeists Read More

    2005

  • The X-Files: Audrey Pauley

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Reyes (Annabeth Gish) is left in a comatose state after being seriously injured in a car accident. Prepared to honor Reyes' "living will," specifying that no extraordinary methods be used to keep her alive if all hope is lost, the doctors plan to pull the plug on the woman's life-support. As Read More

    2002

  • The X-Files: Provenance

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In part one of a two-part story, border patrol guards in Northern Idaho find the remnants of a spaceship similar to the one confronted by Scully (Gillian Anderson) and the missing Mulder in Africa. Investigating, agents Reyes (Annabeth Gish) and Doggett (Robert Patrick) are frustrated by the Read More

    2002

  • The X-Files: Release

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: One of Scully's former Quantico students, an extremely bright FBI rookie named Hayes (James Poe), has an amazing gift for profiling. Hayes not only provides Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) with several valuable leads on a mysterious serial killer, but also insists that the Read More

    2002

  • The X-Files: Hellbound

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After experiencing horrific visions in which human beings are skinned alive, a man suffers the same grisly fate in real life. Convinced that this is a case for the X-Files, Reyes (Annabeth Gish) investigates, all the while wondering why she is having feelings of foreboding. It is up to Scully (Gillian Anderson Read More

    2002

  • The X-Files: The Truth

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After nine seasons and 201 episodes, The X-Files demonstrated inarguably that "The Truth Is Out There" with its two-hour finale, appropriately titled "The Truth." Returning to the series after a year-long absence, David Duchovny re-creates his role of Agent Mulder. Accused of murder, Mulder stands Read More

    2002

  • The X-Files: Existence

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the conclusion (sort of) of a two-part story, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Doggett (Robert Patrick) have dedicated themselves to protecting both Scully (Gillian Anderson) and her unborn child from a seemingly endless variety of alien antagonists. On his own, Doggett hides Scully in a filthy Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: Per Manum

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Having previously contacted the missing Mulder with claims that his wife had been abducted by aliens on a number of occasions, Duffy Haskell (Jay Acovone) now insists that his wife was murdered after giving birth to an alien baby, and that the infant was kidnapped. As Doggett (Robert Patrick) Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: Lord of the Flies

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A staged stunt on a cable TV reality show has tragic consequences for a teenage daredevil. Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) are called in to investigate when evidence shows that the teen's death was not due to the stunt. This theory seems to be verified when thousands of flies Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: Essence

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In part one of a two-part story, resurrected alien abductee Billy Miles (Zachary Ansley) shows up at the Maryland genetics lab, which Scully (Gillian Anderson) suspects of being a spawning ground for alien babies. Not long afterward, Scully's obstetrician, Dr. Parenti (Steven Anderson), dies Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: Nothing Important Happened Today

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The ninth and final season of X-Files opened with part one of the two-part thriller "Nothing Important Happened Today." The title was lifted from the diary entry made by England's King George III on July 4, 1776 -- and in both cases, the statement is misinformed, to say the least. Picking up where Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: This Is Not Happening

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: "Tonight the search for Mulder ends." Thus read the "teaser" for this X-Files episode, the first chapter in a two-part story. Stepping up his efforts to find the missing Mulder, Doggett (Robert Patrick) enlists the services of Special Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish, in the first of several Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: The Gift

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While going through Mulder's old files, Agent Doggett (Robert Patrick) discovers that his predecessor was pursuing a case without informing Scully of the actual particulars. Hoping that this case will lead him to the missing Mulder, Doggett resumes the investigation. He ends up in Squamash, PA Read More

    2001

  • The X-Files: Theef

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Investigating the murder of the father-in-law of a prominent surgeon, Mulder and Scully have only one clue to go on: the word "Theef," hastily scrawled in blood at the scene of the crime. At first, the two agents assume that the killer had misspelled the word "thief." But all bets are off when an Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Signs and Wonders

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In a small and highly religious Tennessee community, several people are found dead, the victims of multiple snakebites. Looking into this phenomenon, Mulder and Scully learn that the victims were all out of favor with the local Church of God With Signs and Wonders, and that their deaths are Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Closure

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: First telecast February 13, 2000, "Closure" is the conclusion of a two-part X-Files story that began with the previous week's "Sein und Zeit." Investigating the disappearance of little Amber Lynn LaPierre (Megan Corletto), Mulder and Scully capture a serial killer who admits to having murdered 24 Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Brand X

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The Oscar-nominated film The Insider would seem to have been the principal inspiration for the April 16, 2000, X-Files episode "Brand X." It all begins with the gruesome death of a man who was poised to blow the whistle on unscrupulous business practices at the Morley Tobacco Company. Since the Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Within

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This first episode of The X-Files' eighth season addresses several questions left unanswered by the cliffhanger ending of season seven. Namely, has Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) really been captured by aliens, or has he merely gone AWOL? Who is the father of Agent Dana Scully's (Gillian Anderson Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Without

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, missing FBI agent Mulder (David Duchovny) manages to elude those searching for him, and in the bargain is able to abduct youthful psychic Gibson Praise (Jeff Gulka). Sensing that Agent Doggett (Robert Patrick) is beginning to be persuaded by his new partner Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Requiem

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Not unexpectedly, the seventh season of The X-Files ended with a cliffhanger on May 21, 2000. This time, however, the episode in question, "Requiem," had all the earmarks of a series finale, inasmuch as star David Duchovny's contract had ended, and co-star Gillian Anderson's commitment to Read More

    2000

  • The X-Files: Monday

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Ever have one of those Monday mornings where everything -- but everything -- goes wrong? That's what happens to Mulder and Scully in the February 28, 1999, X-Files episode "Monday." Making things worse, the disaster begins repeating itself in a seemingly endless cycle, forcing the agents to Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: Two Fathers

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Veronica Cartwright returns as enigmatic alien abductee Cassandra Spender in the February 7, 1999, X-Files episode "Two Fathers." A suspicious fire has killed all the witnesses to Cassandra's prior "visit" to an extraterrestrial spacecraft. The woman's son, FBI agent Spender (Chris Owens), turns Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: The Rain King

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: There's a very good reason that the small town of Kroner, KS, is known as "ground zero for extreme weather." When Mulder and Scully arrive in Kroner, the village is in the third month of a devastating drought. The locals suspect that the drought is the handiwork of Daryl Mootz (Clayton Rohner), a Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: Milagro

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Despite the total absence of clues, Mulder suspects that Phillip Padgett (John Hawkes) is responsible for a series of murders in which the victim's hearts were neatly and bloodlessly removed from their bodies. It so happens that Padgett is also Mulder's new next-door neighbor, and he soon becomes Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: Hungry

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Mulder and Scully head to Costa Mesa, CA, to investigate the discovery of a man's body in a submerged car. The body's brain has been removed, obviously by someone who knew exactly what he (or she) was doing. The trail of evidence leads the agents to the local Lucky Boy Burgers restaurant, a Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: The Sixth Extinction

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: When The X-Files concluded its sixth season with the cliffhanger episode "Biogenesis," viewers knew that Mulder and Scully were investigating the authenticity of an ancient artifact found in West Africa. Despite Scully's skepticism, Mulder believed that the cryptic symbols written on the artifact Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: Field Trip

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After a series of unusual occurrences during a hiking trip in North Carolina, a husband and wife retire to bed. Three days later, their skeletons, locked in a final embrace, are found in a field located in an area infamous for its "atmospheric phenomena." While attempting to solve the mystery Read More

    1999

  • The X-Files: Dreamland

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz, "Dreamland" was part one of a landmark two-part X-Files episode. At long last, Mulder and Scully gain access to the fabled Area 51, the mecca of UFO enthusiasts the world over. There, the two agents bear witness to a mysterious Read More

    1998

  • The X-Files: Dreamland II

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In part one of the two-part X-Files drama "Dreamland," Mulder and Scully's visit to the legendary Area 51 resulted in a freakish personality transference, with Mulder literally changing places with "Man in Black" Morris Fletcher (Michael McKean). Unaware of the switch, Scully -- who is down in the Read More

    1998

  • The X-Files: Patient X

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Part one of a two-part X-Files drama, "Patient X" was written by series producers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz. Many of the plot devices are familiar ones: a series of mass murders (this time the victims are burned alive), multiple disappearances, evidence of extraterrestrial involvement, and Read More

    1998

  • The X-Files: Chinga

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Stephen King collaborated with X-Files creator Chris Carter on the script for the series' February 8, 1998, episode -- "Chinga." The small coastal town of Amma Beach, ME, is held in a grip of terror by an apparently malevolent child (Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson) and her doll. Vacationing in Amma Beach Read More

    1998

  • The X-Files: The Beginning

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Those unlucky X-Files fans who hadn't seen the 1998 theatrical-feature version of the popular Fox Network series were undoubtedly confused by the numerous references to that film in the series' sixth-season opener, "The Beginning." Written by series creator Chris Carter, this episode was also a Read More

    1998

  • The X-Files: Mind's Eye

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A murder has been committed in Wilmington, DE, and a young woman named Marty Glenn (Lili Taylor) has been picked up at the scene of the crime. Inasmuch as Marty has been blind since birth, the local authorities cannot figure out how she could be involved with the murder. But Mulder and Scully Read More

    1998

  • The X-Files: Max

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally telecast March 23, 1997, "Max" was the conclusion of a two-part X-Files drama that began with the previous week's "Tempus Fugit." Scott Bellis returns as frequent alien abductee Max Fenig. Investigating the crash of a jetliner carrying both Max and a valuable packet of evidence proving Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Zero Sum

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: For the second time, Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is framed for murder (the first time was in the episode "Avatar"). This time, Skinner is victimized after covering up the death of a woman who was killed by rampaging bees. Mulder and Scully not only investigate the killing, but also Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Leonard Betts

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This X-Files episode first aired on Super Bowl Sunday, January 26, 1997, right after Fox's coverage of the game. It all begins when the decapitated body of Leonard Betts (Paul McCrane) disappears from a Philadelphia morgue. Normally, this would be a job for the local police, but Mulder and Scully Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Kaddish

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A brutal murder occurs in a Brooklyn neighborhood populated by Hassidic Jews. One of three teenaged bigots arrested for the crime is himself killed shortly afterward -- and his body bears the fingerprints of his dead victim. Mulder is convinced that the avenging killer was not a human being, but Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Demons

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After experiencing disturbing images from his past, Mulder awakens to an even more disturbing present when he is accused of a double homicide. Unfortunately, Mulder cannot account for his actions during the killings -- nor can Scully, who, like her fellow agents, must act upon the evidence at Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Unusual Suspects

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The X-Files' first "crossover" episode incorporates the setting, and one of the regulars, of the ABC police series Homicide. Set in Baltimore in 1989, "Unusual Suspects" brings agent Mulder in contact with the group of conspiracy theorists who will later matriculate into the Lone Gunmen. But Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Emily

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally telecast December 14, 1997, "Emily" was the conclusion of a two-part X-Files drama that began with the previous week's "Christmas Carol." Having discovered that she is the biological mother of three-year-old Emily (Lauren Diewold), Scully also learns that she and the girl have the same Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Redux

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: On November 2, 1997, The X-Files began its fifth season with part two of a three-part drama, carrying over several dangling plot strands from the fourth-season cliffhanger "Gethsemane." Written by series creator Chris Carter, "Redux" finds agent Scully tearfully announcing to an assembly of fellow Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Redux II

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The three-part X-Files drama that began at the end of season four with "Gethesemane" came to a conclusion on November 9, 1997, with "Redux II." As Scully hovers between life and death, the fate of the entire X-Files project is likewise in jeopardy due to an "official" report which has written off Read More

    1997

  • The X-Files: Grotesque

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: During an interview with serial killer John Mostow (Levani Outchaneichvili), Mulder and Scully learn that the young man believes that he has been possessed by a demonic gargoyle. Not long afterward, several more murders occur, with the unknown killer using Mostow's M.O. Racing against time, the Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Apocrypha

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally telecast February 16, 1996, "Apocrypha" was the conclusion of a two-part X-Files story that began with the previous week's "Piper Maru." Investigating the submerged wreckage of an apparent WWII-era fighter plane, Mulder and Scully quickly realize that the aircraft was actually Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: War of the Coprophages

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Mulder and Scully arrive on the scene when a small town is seemingly targeted for extinction by a swarm of killer cockroaches. As the case unfolds, the agents reach the seemingly inescapable conclusion that the tiny scourges are visitors from another planet. The climax of the story invokes Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Syzygy

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The small Midwestern town of Comity has been plagued by a series of bizarre deaths. This earthbound phenomenon appears to be tied in with a once-in-a-generation alignment of the planets. Mulder and Scully try to solve the mystery with the reluctant help of two high-school girls (Lisa Robin Kelly Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Home

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The near-idyllic community of Home, PA, is transformed into a bloody killing ground. The catalyst for all the carnage is the Peacock family, a group of inbred, deformed deviants. Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) put their own lives on the line to rescue a young woman who has Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Sanguinarium

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A Chicago-based cosmetic surgeon causes a tragedy when he operates on the wrong patient, literally sucking the blood out of his victim during liposuction. Arrested by the authorities, the surgeon insists that he was "possessed" during the fatal procedure. Investigating, Mulder and Scully follow Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Teso dos Bichos

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The "MacGuffin" in this X-Files drama is an ancient South American burial urn that was recently exhumed during an archeological expedition. When the artifact is put on display in a Boston museum, a series of murders, apparently the handiwork of terrorists, plagues the city. But Mulder -- and, by Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Quagmire

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Heuvelman's Lake in Georgia is the unlikely scene of several mysterious deaths. Called in to investigate, FBI agents Mulder and Scully gather evidence that indicates that the "perpetrator" is a mythical Nessie-style sea serpent. But, as is often the case, Scully is hesitant to come to the obvious Read More

    1996

  • The X-Files: Humbug

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: "Humbug" takes place in Gibsontown, FL, a retirement community for circus sideshow freaks. The mysterious death of a performer known as the Alligator Man brings Mulder and Scully to town. The suspects herein range from a pair of Siamese twins to a sinister escape artist named Dr. Blockhead (Jim Rose Read More

    1995

  • The X-Files: Die Hand Die Verletzt

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The title of this X-Files drama alludes to a black-magic incantation that figures prominently in the ritualistic killing of a rural New Hampshire teenager. Summoned to the scene of the crime, Mulder and Scully uncover evidence of the presence of a devil-worshipping cult. But worse is still to come Read More

    1995

  • The X-Files: Oubliette

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Amy Jacobs (Jewel Staite) has been abducted from her home by a known psychopath. Investigating the kidnapping, Mulder and Scully enlist the aid of Lucy Householder (Tracey Ellis) who, 17 years earlier, had been the victim of a similar abduction perpetrated by the same man. As the Read More

    1995

  • The X-Files: D.P.O.

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Several residents of Connerville, OK, have been killed in a series of freak lightning disturbances. All the victims were young -- ranging in age from 18 to 21. Investigating, Mulder and Scully suspect a local teenage layabout named Darren Oswald (Giovanni Ribisi), who apparently possesses the Read More

    1995

  • K-9000

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A policeman and a lady scientist team up to recover her latest creation--a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog--from the crooks who made off with it. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: When The Bough Breaks

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Though technologically advanced far beyond most other worlds, the planet Aldea is populated by a sterile race in danger of extinction. Hoping to repopulate their world, the Aldeans kidnap a group of Enterprise children, including Wesley Crusher. It is up to Wesley's mother, the Read More

    1988

  • Mission: Impossible: The Legacy

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

    Synopsis: In the original 1966 version of the Mission: Impossible adventure "The Legacy," IMF agents were assigned to thwart a plan hatched by the sons of four high-ranking Nazi officers to finance the launching of a Fourth Reich. In the1988 remake, the sons were rewritten as grandsons, but the basic plot Read More

    1988

  • Mission: Impossible: Holograms

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Peter Graves, Thaao Penghlis, Tony Hamilton, Phil Morris, Terry Markwell

    Synopsis: Broadcast on November 6, 1988 as the third episode of the "new" Mission: Impossible, "Holograms" was actually a remake of "Fakeout", a 1966 installment of the original series. Guest star Gerard Kennedy plays Colonel Usher, a drug-trafficking Carribean dictator. To topple both Usher and his whole Read More

    1988

  • Hunter: The Cradle Will Rock

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) receives a tip from an old friend that rock star Zack Sherman (Nick Sherman), the ex-husband of singer Miss Gina B (Chaka Khan), has disappeared. When her friend vanishes as well, McCall investigates by going undercover as (what else?) a singer at a rock cub called "The Read More

    1987

  • 21 Jump Street

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Premiering April 12, 1987, 21 Jump Street was the Fox Network's first attempt at an action-adventure series. Essentially an updated Mod Squad, the series concerned the exploits of a group of young-looking cops, working undercover as high school students. In the 2-hour opening episode, officer Tom Read More

    1987

  • Hunter: Death Machine

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Underworld fence Lucky Lacy (Ron Karabatsos) is robbed of $12 million in gems by a gang of young hoodlums. Hiring a huge, psychotic punker named Lincoln--played by John Matuszak, former gridiron rival of Hunter star Fred Dryer--to kill the thieves and retrieve the merchandise, Lacy launches a Read More

    1986

  • Valdez Is Coming

    Crew: Second Assistant Director

    Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan

    Synopsis: Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, Valdez is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in the title role. A scrupulously honest Mexican-American marshal, Bob Valdez is double-crossed and humiliated by wealthy, unscrupulous rancher Jon Cypher. Since Cypher has the law on his side, Valdez is obliged to mete Read More

    1971

  • Halls of Anger

    Actors: Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, James A. Watson Jr., Jeff Bridges, Rob Reiner

    Synopsis: White students are bussed into an all black school in this powerful drama. Quincy Davis (Calvin Lockhart) is the dedicated black English teacher who leaves an all white school to teach in the inner city. Lloyd Wilkerson (John McLiam) is the disciplinary principal who manages the institution like a Read More

    1970

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