---
name: "Mike Ploog"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-ploog"
fi1m_id: "mike-ploog"
imdb_id: "nm0687396"
tmdb_id: 1222571
wikidata_id: "Q3313499"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "13 July 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T20:40:53.430447+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."
---

# Mike Ploog

## Identity

Mike Ploog

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-ploog
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-ploog
- **IMDb ID:** nm0687396
- **TMDB ID:** 1222571
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3313499
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ploog, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3313499, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687396/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222571

Production designer. Born 13 July 1940 in Mankato, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 13 July 1940, Mankato, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 1982–1988
- **Also known as:** Michael Ploog, Michael G. Ploog, Michael George Ploog
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Mystery 2, Adventure 1, Fantasy 1, Horror 1, Music 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $150m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ploog, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3313499, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687396/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222571

## Coming up

- *Ghost Rider* (2028-07-27), Characters

## Biography

Mike Ploog is an American comic book artist, storyboard artist and film production designer. Born Michael George Ploog on 13 July 1940 in Mankato, Minnesota, he began his career in animation before joining Marvel Comics in the early 1970s, where he was the original artist on Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night and worked on Man-Thing and The Monster of Frankenstein.

Since the 1980s Ploog has worked primarily in film as a designer and storyboard artist. His credits include post-production work on Ghostbusters (1984), storyboarding on Return to Oz (1985) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), and production design on the "Smooth Criminal" segment of Moonwalker (1988). He has also contributed to projects directed by Ralph Bakshi and Jim Henson.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Moonwalker* (1988), Fi1m 40, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/moonwalker.md)
- *Young Sherlock Holmes* (1985), Fi1m 68, Art Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/young-sherlock-holmes.md)
- *The Thing* (1982), Fi1m 88, Production Illustrator — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thing.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Ghost Rider* (2028), Characters
- *Werewolf by Night* (2022), Characters
- *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* (2022), Thanks — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness.md)
- *What If...?* (2021), series, Thanks — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/what-if.md)
- *WandaVision* (2021), series, Thanks
- *Thor: Ragnarok* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/thor-ragnarok.md)
- *Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* (2013), series, Thanks
- *Moonwalker* (1988), Production Design — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/moonwalker.md)
- *Young Sherlock Holmes* (1985), Art Designer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/young-sherlock-holmes.md)
- *The Black Cauldron* (1985), Character Designer
- *Return to Oz* (1985), Storyboard
- *The Thing* (1982), as Production Illustrator — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thing.md)
- *The Monster of Frankenstein* (1981), Comic Book

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Inkpot Award 2007: Inkpot Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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