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Mike Boland
Born (1949-12-16)December 16, 1949,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height
Weight
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shoots Right
Pro clubs 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. He and Sarin also won a Gemini Award for Best Photography in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for the same episode.

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

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.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lance Anderson, "The life of documentary cinematographer Mike Boland". My Kawartha, December 16, 2014.

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