Kim Manners

Kim Manners (January 13, 1951 – January 25, 2009)

directed and produced 132 episodes of The X-Files television series, working on the series from 1995 to 2002. 

He was the most prolific director on the show, having directed 52 episodes (just over 1/4 of the total episode count), and the longest serving (from the second season to the end).  He was known for his perfectionist and demanding approach to directing, as well as his colorful language when things were not satisfactory; the foul-mouthed character of Detective Manners in Season 3's "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" was modeled after him.

Prior to collaborating on the series, he worked on Charlie's Angels, 21 Jump Street, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. After The X-Files ended in 2002 (having directed the final episode), he served as executive producer and occasional director on the series Supernatural. He passed away due to cancer on January 25, 2009. 

Both the fourth season of Supernatural and a second season episode of Breaking Bad (whose creator, Vince Gilligan, worked with Manners on The X-Files) were dedicated to him.

Director Credits

• The X-Files:
  • Season 2:
    • "Die Hand Die Verletzt"
    • "Humbug"
  • Season 3:
    • "D.P.O."
    • "Oubliette"
    • "War of the Coprophages"
    • "Grotesque"
    • "Apocrypha"
    • "Teso Dos Bichos"
    • "Quagmire"
  • Season 4:
    • "Home"
    • "Sanguinarium"
    • "Tunguska"
    • "Leonard Betts"
    • "Kaddish"
    • "Max"
    • "Zero Sum"
    • "Demons"
  • Season 5:
    • "Redux II"
    • "Unusual Suspects"
    • "Emily"
    • "Chinga"
    • "Patient X"
    • "Mind's Eye"
    • "Folie a Deux"
  • Season 6:
    • "The Beginning"
    • "Dreamland"
    • "The Rain King"
    • "Two Fathers"
    • "Monday"
    • "Milagro"
    • "Field Trip"
  • Season 7:
    • "The Sixth Extinction"
    • "Hungry"
    • "Signs and Wonders"
    • "Closure"
    • "Theef"
    • "Brand X"
    • "Requiem"
  • Season 8:
    • "Within"
    • "Without"
    • "The Gift"
    • "Per Manum"
    • "This Is Not Happening"
    • "Essence"
    • "Existence"
  • Season 9:
    • "Nothing Important Happened Today"
    • "Lord of the Flies"
    • "Hellbound"
    • "Provenance"
    • "Audrey Pauley"
    • "Release"
    • "The Truth: Part 1"
    • "The Truth: Part 2"

Producer Credits

• The X-Files:
  • Season 2:
    • "Død Kalm"
    • "The Căluşari"
    • "F. Emasculata"
    • "Our Town"
    • "Anasazi"
  • Season 3:
    • "The Blessing Way"
    • "Paper Clip"
    • "D.P.O."
    • "The List"
    • "2Shy"
    • "The Walk"
    • "Oubliette"
    • "Nisei"
    • "731"
    • "Revelations"
    • "Syzygy"
    • "Grotesque"
    • "Teso Dos Bichos"
    • "Hell Money"
    • "Avatar"
    • "Quagmire"
    • "Wetwired"
    • "Talitha Cumi"
  • Season 4:
    • "Herrenvolk"
    • "Home"
    • "Teliko"
    • "The Field Where I Died"
    • "Sanguinarium"
    • "Tunguska"
    • "Terma"
    • "Paper Hearts"
    • "El Mundo Gira"
    • "Leonard Betts"
    • "Memento Mori"
    • "Kaddish"
    • "Tempus Fugit"
    • "Max"
    • "Synchrony"
    • "Small Potatoes"
    • "Zero Sum"
    • "Elegy"
    • "Demons"
    • "Gethsemane"
  • Season 5:
    • "Redux"
    • "Redux II"
    • "Unusual Suspects"
    • "Detour"
    • "The Post-Modern Prometheus"
    • "Emily"
    • "Schizogeny"
    • "Chinga"
    • "Kill Switch"
    • "Bad Blood"
    • "Patient X"
    • "The Red and the Black"
    • "Mind's Eye"
    • "All Souls"
    • "Folie a Deux"
    • "The End"
  • Season 6:
    • "The Beginning"
    • "Drive"
    • "Triangle"
    • "Dreamland"
    • "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
    • "The Rain King"
    • "S.R. 819"
    • "Tithonus"
    • "Two Fathers"
    • "One Son"
    • "Agua Mala"
    • "Monday"
    • "Arcadia"
    • "Alpha"
    • "Trevor"
    • "Milagro"
    • "Three of a Kind"
    • "Field Trip"
    • "Biogenesis"
  • Season 7:
    • "The Sixth Extinction"
    • "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati"
    • "Hungry"
    • "Millennium"
    • "Rush"
    • "The Goldberg Variation"
    • "Orison"
    • "The Amazing Maleeni"
    • "Signs and Wonders"
    • "Sein Und Zeit"
    • "Closure"
    • "X-Cops"
    • "First Person Shooter"
    • "Theef"
    • "En Ami"
    • "Chimera"
    • "All things"
    • "Brand X"
    • "Hollywood A.D."
    • "Fight Club"
    • "Je Souhaite"
    • "Requiem"
  • Season 8:
    • "Within"
    • "Without"
    • "Patience"
    • "Roadrunners"
    • "Via Negativa"
    • "Surekill"
    • "Salvage"
    • "The Gift"
    • "Per Manum"
    • "This Is Not Happening"
    • "DeadAlive"
    • "Three Words"
    • "Empedocles"
    • "Vienen"
    • "Alone"
    • "Essence"
    • "Existence"
  • Season 9:
    • "Nothing Important Happened Today"
    • "4-D"
    • "Lord of the Flies"
    • "John Doe"
    • "Hellbound"
    • "Provenance"
    • "Audrey Pauley"
    • "Release"
    • "The Truth: Part 2"
    • "The Truth: Part 1"