Born: 29 April 1940, New Malden, Surrey, UK, as Michael Fash.

Education: Richmond Art School [Portrait Painting]; London University [Photography].

Career: Was accepted into the BBC training program finally specializing in Film. After several years and after becoming a doph, he left the BBC and formed his own company. Worked for Thames Television and ph many tv-doc's and tvm's. Moved into commercials and feature films. As more and more of his work became based in the USA he emigrated with his family to New England basing himself out of New York. He launched his own commercials company. Now lives in Los Angeles and is currently teaching at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Also active as director. Was a member [now honorary member] of the BSC.

Awards: BAFTA TV Award nom [1978] for 'The One and Only Phyllis Dixey'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1979/80; shared] for 'A Movie Star's Daughter'.

1981        Britannia Hospital [Lindsay Anderson] c

1982        Betrayal [David Hugh Jones] c

1984        Get to Know IT [ep 'IT - Fibre Optics' & 'IT - Satellites' dir by Anthony Wilkinson] c; series of comm doc's

1984        Success Is the Best Revenge [Jerzy Skolimowski] c

1986        The Whales of August [Lindsay Anderson] c

1997        Time to Say Goodbye? [David Hugh Jones] c

1997        The Unknown Cyclist [Bernard Salzmann] c; cph: B. Salzmann

1998        The Confession [David Hugh Jones] c; addph: Geoffrey Erb

1969        St Ann's [Stephen Frears] doc/47m/b&w; ep series 'Report'

1969        Now That the Buffalo's Gone: A Report on the Past and Present of the American Indian [Ross Devenish]

                    doc/75m; ep series 'Report'

1970        And on the Eighth Day [Richard Broad] 4-part doc series

1970        Accident Department [David Gill] doc/?m; ep series 'This Week'

1971        Where the Houses Used to Be [Carlos Pasini] doc/60m; ep series 'Report'

1972        Black Man's Burden [Richard Broad] doc/50m/b&w

1972        Two Women [Mira Hamermesh] doc/55m/16mm

1972        A Passage to England [Chris Goddard] doc/?; cph: Frank Hodge & Raymond Sieman

1972        Bunny [Frank Cvitanovich] doc/60m

1973        Grief [Jolyon Wimhurst] doc/50m

1973        Limits to Growth [Richard Broad] doc/33m/16mm

1973        The World at War [ep #1 'A New Germany (1933-1939)' dir by Hugh Raggett] 26-part doc series/b&w-c; cph: Peter

                    Lang & Frank Hodge; for ITV; repeat on BBC2 in 1994-95

1973        The Public's Right to Know [Silvio Narizzano] doc/60m; cph: Frank Hodge & Grenville Middleton

1974        Peter Ind - Music Maker [Chris Goddard] doc/35m

1974        The Enchanted Loom [Terence Dixon] doc/55m

1974        Wynford [Jolyon Wimhirst] 3-part doc series

1974        Berkeley Castle [John Rhodes] doc/30m; ep series 'A Place in History'

1974        Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton/Shire Horses [Frank Cvitanovich] doc/52m

1974        The Sun Is God [- The Life of J.M.W. Turner] [Michael Darlow] doc/55m

1974        This Week: 1844 [Richard Broad] 3-part dram doc/80m/16mm

1975        Barry Sheene - Daytona 1975 [Frank Cvitanovich] doc/60m

1975        The Case Against Dogs [Jolyon Wimhurst] doc/60m; cph: Raymond Sieman; ep series 'Report'

1975        A Fall Like Lucifer [Gloria Wood] doc/60m; ep series 'Report'

1975        Girl in a Broken Mirror [?] mus doc/60m

1975        The Naked Civil Servant [Jack Gold] tvm/16mm; ep series 'The Wednesday Special'

1975        Edmund Kean - The Sun's Bright Child [David Munro] doc/60m

1975        Double Agent: A Conversation with Graham Greene [Alan Cooke] interview/55m; ep series 'The Wednesday Special'

1976        Hazlitt in Love [Michael Darlow] dram doc/50m

1977        Billy - Violence in a Family [Michael Whyte] doc/52m

1978        Jimmy [?] doc/52m

1978        French Studies [ep 'Au travail - L'abbaye de Fonrevaud', 'Au travail - Handicapes en vacances' & 'Au travail - Centre

                    d'echanges international' dir by Tony Davenall] series

1978        The Road from Eltham [Terence Dixon] doc/58m

1978        Highwayman [Richard Denton] doc/26m

1978        The One and Only Phyllis Dixey/Peek-A-Boo [Michael Tuchner] tvm

1978        Rumpole of the Bailey [ep #1 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation' dir by Herbert Wise & #4 'Rumpole and the Married

                    Lady' dir by Graham Evans] 44-part series, 1978-92; 1st season, 1978

1978        The Jilting of Granny Weatherall [Randa Haines] tvm/57m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Short Story'

1979        A Christmas Without Snow [John Korty] tvm

1979        A Movie Star's Daughter [Robert Fuest] tvm/46m/16mm; cph: John Beymer; an ABC-tv 'Afterschool Special'

1979        The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg [Ralph Rosenblum] tvm/40m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Short Story'

1979        Rappaccini's Daughter [Dezsö Magyar] tvm/57m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Short Story'

1980        Only in America [prod: Michael Houldey] 3-part doc series

1981        Bill [Anthony Page] tvm

1981        [An Act of Love:] The Patricia Neal Story/Patricia Neal: An Untold Story [Anthony Harvey (USA) & Anthony Page

                    (UK)] tvm; cph: Reynaldo Villalobos (USA)

1981        Summer [Dezsö Magyar] tvm for PBS-tv series 'Great Performances'

1981        The Electric Grandmother [Noel Black] tvm/60m

1981        King of America [Dezsö Magyar] tvm; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'

1982        Red Monarch [Jack Gold] tvm

1982        The File on Jill Hatch [Alastair Reid] 3-part miniseries (1983); ph USA; ph UK: Remi Adefarasin

1983        Bill: On His Own [Anthony Page] tvm

1983        Adam [Michael Tuchner] tvm

1983        The Sky's No Limit/The Sky's the Limit [David Lowell Rich] tvm

1983        Terrible Joe Moran [Joseph Sargent] tvm

1984        Private Sessions [Michael Pressman] pilot

1985        Kane & Abel [Buzz Kulik] 3-part miniseries

1986        Women of Valor [Buzz Kulik] tvm

1986        Stones for Ibarra [Jack Gold] tvm; ep #156 'Hallmark Hall of Fame'-series

1988        In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders [Dick Lowry] tvm

1988        Glory! Glory! [Lindsay Anderson] 2-part tvm; 2uc: John Dyer

1989        When He's Not a Stranger [John Gray] tvm

1990        [Tennessee William's] Orpheus Descending [Peter Hall] tvm

1990        Sarah, Plain and Tall [Glenn Jordan] tvm; ep #168 'Hallmark Hall of Fame'-series

1990        A Woman Named Jackie [Larry Peerce] 3-part miniseries

1990        The World of Jewish Humor [Rex Bloomstein] perf/90m; cph: Brian Tufano, Roger Grange & Ted Haimes; ep PBS-tv

                    series 'Great Performances'

1990        Lies Before Kisses [Lou Antonio] tvm

1991        A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story/Triumph of the Heart [Richard Michaels] tvm

1991        In Sickness and in Health/Hearts on Fire [Jeff Bleckner] tvm

1991        Silent Cries/Guests of the Emperor [Anthony Page] tvm

1992        A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story [Linda Otto] tvm

1992        Miss America: Behind the Crown [Richard Michaels] tvm

1992        [Sarah, Plain and Tall:] Skylark [Joseph Sargent] tvm; ep #176 'Hallmark Hall of Fame'-series

1992        Not in My Family/Shattering the Silence [Linda Otto] tvm

1993        There Are No Children Here [Anita W. Addison] tvm

1993        Christy [pilot + 5 ep dir by Michael Ray Rhodes] 21-part series, 1994-95; 1st season, 1994

1994        Christy [various] 2nd season, 1994-95; other ph: Frank Perl; see 1993

1994        [Danielle Steel's] A Perfect Stranger [Michael Miller] tvm

1995        Entertaining Angels [: The Dorothy Day Story] [Michael Ray Rhodes] tvm

1995        Second Noah [various] 21-part series, 1996-97; 1st season, 1996; other ph: Kees van Oostrum (pilot) & Alan Degen

1995        [Danielle Steel's] Mixed Blessings [Bethany Rooney] tvm

1996        Second Noah [various] 2nd season, 1996-97; see 1995

1996        [Louis L'Amour's] Shaughnessy [Michael Ray Rhodes] tvm (created as - unaired - pilot for CBS-tv; aired on Starz!

                    Western Channel in 2002)

1997        Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story [Jean de Segonzac] tvm

1998        Ice [Jean de Segonzac] tvm

1998        Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story [Stephen Tolkin] tvm

1998        Grace and Glorie [Arthur Allan Seidelman] tvm

1998        Love Letters [Stanley Donen] tvm

1998        Double Platinum [Robert Allan Ackerman] tvm

1999        Forget Me Never [Robert Allan Ackerman] tvm

1999        Flowers for Algernon/Charlie [Jeff Bleckner] tvm

1999        The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery [Bill Duke] tvm & pilot; followed by 28-part series, 2001-02; series ph:

                    Derek Rogers & John Berrie

1999        Take Me Home: The John Denver Story [Jerry London] tvm/HD; aph: John Trapman

2000        The West Wing [ep dir by ?] series, 1999-present; other ph: Thomas Del Ruth, James Glennon, Rick Bota, Anette

                    Haellmigk & Bing Sokolsky

2000        Strong Medicine [various] 132-part series, 2000-06/16mm; 1st season, 2000-01; other ph: David Hennings (pilot dir by

                    Robert Lieberman)

2000        Custody of the Heart/A Woman's Place [David Hugh Jones] tvm

2001        Strong Medicine [various] 2nd season, 2001-02; see 2000

2002        Strong Medicine [various] 3rd season, 2002-03; see 2000

2003        Strong Medicine [various] 4th season, 2003-04; see 2000

1994        Christy [ep #17 'Green Apples'] 2nd season, 1994-95; ph: ?; see Television 1994

1995        Second Noah [ep #7 'Ghost Story' & #11 'A Dog's Life'] 1st season, 1996; ph: ?; see Television 1995

1996        Second Noah [ep #20 'Desperately Seeking Mickey'] 2nd season, 1996-97; ph: ?; see 1995

2000        Strong Medicine [ep #15 'Blessed Events'] 1st season, 2000-01; + ph; see Television 2000

2001        Strong Medicine [ep #25 'Gray Matter', #31 'Control Group' & #40 'Shock'] 2nd season, 2001-02; + ph; see 2000

2002        Dinotopia: The Series [ep #6 'Big Fight' (co-d: David Winning) & #8 'LeSage' (co-d: David Winning)] 13-part series,

                    2002-03; ph: Martin Kenzie (ep #1-12) & John Daly (ep #13); 2uc: Nyika Jancsó

2002        Strong Medicine [ep #48 'Heartbeat' & #60 'PMS, Lies and Red Tape'] 3rd season, 2002-03; + ph; see 2000

2003        Strong Medicine [ep #72 'Misdiagnosis Murder' & #82 'Prescriptions'] 4th season, 2003-04; + ph; see 2000