# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-w-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:13:51.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-w-watkins"
name: "Michael W. Watkins"
slug: "michael-w-watkins"
description: "Michael W. Watkins is an American cinematographer, television director and television producer. He has worked on Smallville, Boomtown, The X-Files, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Monk, Law & Order, No Ordinary Family, Warehouse 13 and several other film and television series. He also directed the made for TV movies Deadlocked (2000), The Rockford Files (2010), as well as the 2004 TV miniseries 5ive Days to Midnight."
tagline: "American cinematographer, television director, television producer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3PepN0KsLEnLkZh72QXxyvu0d7C.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           43.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.21908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914368/"
    handle:    "nm0914368"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://michaelwatkinsdirector.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Watkins"
    title: "Michael W. Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Watkins"
    title: "Michael W. Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Watkins"
    title: "Michael Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Watkins"
    title: "Michael W. Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Watkins"
    title: "Michael W. Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Watkins"
    title: "Michael Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Watkins"
    title: "Michael Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6835163"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40575"
    title: "Michael W. Watkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump