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Michael Anthony Boland (born December 16, 1949) is a Canadian cinematographer and former professional ice hockey player.[1] He played two NHL games with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1974–75 season and also played 41 WHA games with the Ottawa Nationals, before beginning to work as a television and documentary film camera operator.[1]

Mike Boland
Born	(1949-12-16) December 16, 1949 (age 72) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Position	Right Wing
Shot	Right
Played for	Ottawa Nationals (WHA) Philadelphia Flyers
NHL Draft	Undrafted
Playing career	1970–1978

Boland won a Primetime Emmy Award (shared with Vic Sarin) for his work on the 1992 episode "Strange Relations" of the television series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World.[2] He and Sarin also won a Gemini Award for Best Photography in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for the same episode.[3]

In 2012 he published his memoir, Through the Lens of My Eye: Adventures of a Documentary Camerman.[4]

He was codirector with Roberto Verdecchia of "Gorilla Doctors", a 2014 episode of The Nature of Things which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.[5]

References

External links

• Michael Boland at IMDb
• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database

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