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name: "Michael Smith"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1950"
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:17:32.363520+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."
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# Michael Smith

Director. Born 1 January 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1950
- **Also known as:** Mike Smith, Michael I. Smith
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834465, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1226492/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1232639

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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## Biography

Michael Smith, also credited as Mike Smith or Michael I. Smith, is an American television director and producer. He began his career in the mid-1990s as a second assistant director on films including *Everyone Says I Love You* (1996), *Gloria* (1999), *Mickey Blue Eyes* (1999) and *Man on the Moon* (2001), and worked on series such as *The Sopranos* and *Hack*.

Smith's first directing credit came in 2007 on *Law & Order: Criminal Intent*, where he had previously served as first assistant director, co-producer and unit production manager. He has since directed episodes of *Suits*, *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, *White Collar*, *Burn Notice*, *How to Get Away with Murder*, *Bull*, *Manifest* and the revived *Law & Order* series. He has also worked as a producer or co-executive producer on several *Law & Order* programmes and other series.

A University of Michigan alumnus, Smith is based in New York and New Jersey.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Also known for

- *Suits* (2011), Director
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Director
- *Elementary* (2012), Director
- *Manifest* (2018), Director
- *How to Get Away with Murder* (2014), Director
- *White Collar* (2009), Director
- *Burn Notice* (2007), Director
- *Bull* (2016), Director

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