---
name: "Craig Powell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/craig-powell"
fi1m_id: "craig-powell"
tmdb_id: 2557801
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 September 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T12:09:53.985630+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Craig Powell

## Identity

Craig Powell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/craig-powell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** craig-powell
- **TMDB ID:** 2557801
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2557801

Director. Born 4 September 1971 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 September 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2557801

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Once Upon a Time*](https://film.one/tv/once-upon-a-time.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Craig Powell is a Canadian cinematographer, camera operator and director. He began working in film in 2000, initially as a camera operator and director of photography on made-for-television and direct-to-video features, later taking on second-unit directing roles.

Powell served as A-camera operator on the ABC series *Once Upon a Time* from 2011 to 2017 across its first six seasons. In 2016 he directed the season-five episode 'Last Rites'. His other credits as director of photography or camera operator include the series *V*, *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina*, *Motherland: Fort Salem* and *Dead Boy Detectives*.

*Sources: imdb.com, onceuponatime.fandom.com, tvguide.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Once Upon a Time* (2011), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/once-upon-a-time.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Once Upon a Time* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/once-upon-a-time.md)
- *In My Daughter's Name* (1992), as Reporter #2

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/craig-powell