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'Supernatural' and 'X Files' producer-director Kim Manners has died


Jan 26, 2009, 10:09 PM | by Ken Tucker
Categories: Television


It's been reported that Kim Manners, a prolific, highly imaginative director and
producer of TV shows including Supernatural and The X Files, died on Sunday. The
cause was cancer.


Manners was among the people who helped Supernatural creator Eric Kripke define
the invitingly dark visual palette of Supernatural;
he directed numerous episodes of the series, including every season
finale--crucial entries in the series that set up cliffhangers which
moved the mythology of the series forward.


For The X Files, Manners was credited as a producer for
some of that series' greatest episodes, including the Emmy-winning
"Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose,"
and directed such memorable entries as the creepy-funny "Leonard
Betts."


Manners was a subtle artist working in a commercial medium that
doesn't always prize such qualities. (Manners also directed a number of
episodes of the terrific 1993-94 cult series The Adventures of Brisco County,
Jr.) He was lucky to have found sympathetic creators to collaborate with, such
as Kripke and X Files' Chris Carter. And they were lucky to work with him.







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