Kim Manners

Kim Manners
Born	(1951-01-13)January 13, 1951 United States
Died	January 25, 2009(2009-01-25) (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation(s)	Director, producer
Years active	1978–2009

Kim Manners (January 13, 1951 – January 25, 2009) was an American

Early life

Kim Manners was raised in a show business family. His father, Sam Manners (born Savino Maneri in Cleveland, Ohio) had production credits on shows such as

Manners' brother, Kelly, has production and directorial credits on Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse and his sister, Tana, works as a television director.

Career

Manners made his directorial debut in 1978 at age 27, directing an episode of Charlie's Angels. Prior to this, he had worked as unit production manager on the show and as an assistant director on a handful of other projects.^[1] Other notable directorial credits to Manners' name include episodes of 21 Jump Street, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Baywatch, K-9000, and The Commish.

Manners left his directing job at Stephen J. Cannell Productions in 1993 to work on the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He directed 7 of the series' 27 episodes, more than any other director for the show. He joked that he was the series' "mascot director". He was happy with the work for the series, and felt that it "stretched" him creatively. He said, "It really woke me up as a director, almost spiritually…" and that directing for Brisco was a large contributing factor to his later success as a regular director on The X-Files.^[2]

Manners signed on to produce and direct The X-Files in the show's second season at the advice of

Manners died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, on January 25, 2009, at age 58.^[3][4]

The closing credits of the