---
name: "Lionel Coleman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lionel-coleman"
fi1m_id: "lionel-coleman"
imdb_id: "nm0171122"
tmdb_id: 120685
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:36:12.397663+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."
---

# Lionel Coleman

## Identity

Lionel Coleman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lionel-coleman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lionel-coleman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0171122
- **TMDB ID:** 120685
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171122/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/120685

Director. Born in Brooklyn.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171122/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/120685

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*NCIS*](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md) (66)

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

## Biography

Lionel Coleman is an American television and film director. He began his career as a cameraman at CBS News, where he worked on documentary storytelling, before moving into commercials and episodic television. He is an alumnus of the CBS Diversity Director Program.

Coleman has directed multiple episodes of *NCIS* (2003) and its spin-offs *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014) and *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2021), as well as episodes of *All Rise* (2019), *God Friended Me* (2018), *Tracker* (2024), *Elsbeth* (2024) and *Power Book III: Raising Kanan* (2021). His short film *These Final Hours* (2021) won several festival awards and received an NAACP Image Award nomination.

*Sources: lionelcoleman.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *NCIS* (2003), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *NCIS: Origins* (2024), series, Director
- *Elsbeth* (2024), series, Director
- *Tracker* (2024), series, Director
- *These Final Hours* (2021), Director
- *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2021), series, Director
- *Power Book III: Raising Kanan* (2021), series, Director
- *All Rise* (2019), series, Director
- *God Friended Me* (2018), series, Director
- *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014), series, Director
- *DON'T STOP A.I. JAPAN TOUR* (2008), Director
- *NCIS* (2003), series, Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)
- *Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want* (2000), Director, Cinematography

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