Michael Nankin

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'''Michael Nankin''' (born December 26, 1955) is an American film and television writer, director and producer.<ref>[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/midnight-madness-1980 RogerEbert.com]</ref> He was nominated for the Humanitas Prize for his writing.

==Career== Nankin's film career began in 1976 with a short film called ''Gravity''. He co-wrote and co-directed the project with David Wechter. They followed it with another short, ''Junior High School''. They produced their first feature-length project in 1980, a comedy called ''Midnight Madness''. Nankin scripted a horror film called ''The Gate'' which was released in 1987. The film marked the acting debut of Stephen Dorff. In the same year Nankin received a screenplay credit for ''Russkies''. In 1989 he wrote a sequel to ''The Gate'' entitled ''The Gate II: Trespassers''.

Nankin became involved in television as a director, writer, and producer on ''Life Goes On'' in 1990. The series was created by Michael Braverman and is about a family of four from suburban Chicago. Nankin joined the series in its second season as a producer. He was promoted to supervising producer for the third season and then to co-executive producer for the fourth season. He scripted nine episodes of the series before its cancellation in 1993. He directed eight episodes of the series. Nankin also wrote for ''Picket Fences'' in 1992. In 1994 he became a consulting producer, writer, and director for ''Chicago Hope''. Nankin was nominated for a Humanitas Prize in the 60 minute category for his work on the ''Chicago Hope'' episode "Shutt Down" (co-written with Braverman). Nankin returned to ''Picket Fences'' as a director and producer in 1995, directing an episode. He wrote the story for a pilot episode for a new version of ''Flipper'' but was not involved with the ongoing series which followed.

Nankin was a writer and director for ''American Gothic'' in 1995 and 1996. He wrote and directed the episode "Potato Boy" and directed a second episode. He directed episodes of ''Moloney'' and ''Early Edition'' in 1996. He was a co-executive producer on the action series ''Roar'' in 1997. He wrote one episode and directed one episode of the series, which starred Heath Ledger. Only 13 episodes were produced and the second half of the series did not air until 2000.

In 2000 Nankin directed episodes of ''Strong Medicine'' and ''Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family''. In 2001 he directed the TV movie ''The Agency'' and several episodes of the series which came after the film. In 2002 he directed the pilot episode for a series called ''Septuplets''. Nankin was credited as an executive producer. The pilot was not picked up by a network. He directed episodes of ''Monk'' in 2002. In 2004 Nankin served as a consulting producer for the short lived WB family drama ''The Mountain''. He wrote one episode of the series. He directed episodes of ''Veritas: The Quest'' and ''Invasion'' in 2005.

He worked as a regular director for the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica''. His involvement with the series began in 2005 with the second season and he directed eight episodes before it ended in 2009. He often worked alongside writing team Bradley Thompson and David Weddle and five of his eight episodes were scripted by Weddle and Thompson. While working on ''Battlestar Galactica'', Nankin directed episodes of ''The Dresden Files'', ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', and ''Eureka''. He directed the TV movie ''Break-In'' in 2006.

In 2009 Nankin followed Thompson and Weddle from ''Battlestar Galactica'' to ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' and he directed the twentieth episode of the ninth season. In 2020, Nankin directed an episode on ''The Good Lord Bird''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/daveed-diggs-wyatt-russell-the-good-lord-bird-showtime-tca-1202659889/ |title=Daveed Diggs & Wyatt Russell Join 'The Good Lord Bird' For Showtime – TCA |website=Deadline Hollywood |first=Denise |last=Petski |date=August 2, 2019 |accessdate=August 3, 2020}}</ref> The 2022 Lifetime film, ''An Amish Sin'', was directed by Nankin.

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0002749|name=Michael Nankin}}

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