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Michael Boland (cinematographer)

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Mike Boland
Born (1949-12-16) December 16, 1949 (age 74)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shot Right
Played for Ottawa Nationals (WHA)
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL draft Undrafted
Playing career 1970–1978

Michael Anthony Boland (born December 16, 1949) is a Canadian cinematographer and former professional ice hockey player.[1] He played two NHL games with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1974–75 season and also played 41 WHA games with the Ottawa Nationals, before beginning to work as a television and documentary film camera operator.[1]

Boland won a Primetime Emmy Award (shared with Vic Sarin) for his work on the 1992 episode "Strange Relations" of the television series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World.[2] He and Sarin also won a Gemini Award for Best Photography in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for the same episode.[3]

In 2012 he published his memoir, Through the Lens of My Eye: Adventures of a Documentary Camerman.[4]

He was codirector with Roberto Verdecchia of "Gorilla Doctors", a 2014 episode of The Nature of Things which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.[5]

Career statistics

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Regular season and playoffs

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Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1967–68 University of Toronto CIAU
1968–69 University of Toronto CIAU 10 5 5 10 4
1969–70 University of Toronto CIAU 10 3 13 16 22
1970–71 University of Toronto CIAU 1 1 0 1 0
1970–71 Springfield Kings AHL 34 7 5 12 33 12 2 6 8 4
1971–72 Springfield Kings AHL 48 4 20 24 47 5 1 0 1 2
1972–73 Ottawa Nationals WHA 41 1 15 16 44 1 0 0 0 12
1973–74 Richmond Robins AHL 38 10 19 29 49 5 3 1 4 8
1974–75 Philadelphia Firebirds NAHL 59 31 55 86 49 3 2 1 3 0
1974–75 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 2 0 0 0 0
1975–76 Philadelphia Firebirds NAHL 13 4 8 12 9
1975–76 Cape Codders NAHL 35 13 23 36 24
1976–77 FPS FIN 17 5 12 17 30
1976–77 HIFK FIn 18 6 4 10 28 4 0 0 0 0
1978–79 Philadelphia Firebirds AHL 3 0 0 0 0
WHA totals 41 1 15 16 44 1 0 0 0 12
NHL totals 2 0 0 0 0

References

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  1. ^ a b Lance Anderson, "The life of documentary cinematographer Mike Boland". My Kawartha, December 16, 2014.
  2. ^ "Michael Boland - Awards & Nominations". awardsandwinners.com. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  3. ^ "Fifty-five Geminis and six special awards presented over three days". Montreal Gazette, March 8, 1993.
  4. ^ "Take a journey with filmmaker Michael Boland". Peterborough Examiner, April 28, 2013.
  5. ^ "Peterborough documentary cinematographer Michael Boland, and his team, nominated for Canadian Screen Award". Peterborough This Week, March 9, 2016.
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