---
name: "Kelly Makin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kelly-makin"
fi1m_id: "kelly-makin"
imdb_id: "nm0538614"
tmdb_id: 64030
wikidata_id: "Q6386174"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T10:51:47.588628+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."
---

# Kelly Makin

## Identity

Kelly Makin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kelly-makin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kelly-makin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0538614
- **TMDB ID:** 64030
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6386174
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Makin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6386174, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538614/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64030

Director. Born in Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Makin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6386174, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538614/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64030

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Vikings*](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Kelly Makin is a Canadian film and television director. He has directed episodes of series including *Vikings* (2013), *Flashpoint* (2008), *Queer as Folk* (2000) and *The Kids in the Hall*.

His feature film credits include *Mickey Blue Eyes* (1999), *Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy* (1996) and *National Lampoon's Senior Trip* (1995). In 2009 he won Gemini Awards for best direction in both a comedy programme or series (*Less Than Kind*) and a dramatic series (*Flashpoint*).

Makin has also directed episodes of *Shadowhunters* (2016), *Frontier* (2016), *Murdoch Mysteries* (2008), *Rookie Blue* (2010) and *Private Eyes* (2016).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Vikings* (2013), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *The Kids in the Hall* (2022), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Carter* (2018), series, Director
- *The Detail* (2018), series, Director
- *Burden of Truth* (2018), series, Director
- *Mary Kills People* (2017), series, Director
- *Incorporated* (2016), series, Director
- *Frontier* (2016), series, Director
- *Eyewitness* (2016), series, Director
- *Private Eyes* (2016), series, Director
- *Shadowhunters* (2016), series, Director
- *Remedy* (2014), series, Executive Producer
- *Played* (2013), series, Director
- *Vikings* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md)
- *Saving Hope* (2012), series, Director
- *The Glades* (2010), series, Director
- *Rookie Blue* (2010), series, Director
- *The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town* (2010), series, Director
- *Being Erica* (2009), series, Director
- *Less Than Kind* (2008), series, Director
- *Flashpoint* (2008), series, Director
- *Murdoch Mysteries* (2008), series, Director
- *The Altar Boy Gang* (2007), series, Director
- *Playing House* (2006), Director
- *Beautiful People* (2005), series, Director
- *Kevin Hill* (2004), series, Director
- *I Do (but I Don't)* (2004), Director
- *The Eleventh Hour* (2002), series, Director
- *Queer as Folk* (2000), series, Director
- *Mickey Blue Eyes* (1999), Director
- *Earth: Final Conflict* (1997), series, Director
- *Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy* (1996), Director
- *The Kids In The Hall: Laughing Ourselves Sick* (1996), Actor
- *National Lampoon's Senior Trip* (1995), Director
- *Tiger Claws* (1991), Director
- *The Kids in the Hall* (1989), series, Director

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