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Home/People/Michael Tollin
Michael Tollin profile photo
Born
Oct 6, 1955
Age 70
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

2
Movies
0
TV Shows
15
Directed
Also Known As
Mike Tollin
IMDb Profile

Michael Tollin

Directing

Biography
Michael "Mike" Tollin (born June 10, 1955) is an American film director and film/television producer. His career highlights included Radio, Coach Carter, and Varsity Blues. He frequently collaborates with Brian Robbins in which they own a production company together called Tollin/Robbins Productions. They created and produced such shows like All That, The Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel, One Tree Hill, Smallville, What I Like About You, The Bronx is Burning and a few others. Tollin was the producer of the weekly highlights show for the United States Football League, the springtime football league which played from 1983 through 1985. In 2009, he served as executive producer for the hour-long documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? for ESPN's 30 for 30 series. He was also part of a number of the series films, as one of the production members. Tollin is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Tollin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? poster

Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

as Self
2009
Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie poster

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

as Self
2005