Jeff Woolnough

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Jeff Woolnough is a Canadian film and television director. His career began in the early 1990s and has won numerous awards directing multiple episodes of a variety of television series. His most prolific work has been with The Expanse and Vikings , for which he directed ten episodes of each.

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He has been a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Direction in a Drama Series for his work on Vikings, with nods at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, and the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. [1] He was also a Gemini Award nominee for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010 for Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story . [2]

Directing credits

YearTitleEpisode(s)Notes
1991 Dracula: The Series "The Decline of the Romanian Vampire", "My Girlfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble"
1991 Street Justice
1992 Catwalk No Returns
1992-1993 African Skies Wildlife (1992)

Safety Last (1993)

The Foul (1993)

Smoke (1993)

Aid and Comfort (1993)

1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Shaman
1993-1994 Cobra Nowhere to Run (1993)

Haunted Lives (1994)

1994-1995 Hawkeye The Quest (1994)

Hester (1995)

1994–1996 North of 60 The Cure (1994)

Revolving Door (1995)

Suspicious Minds (1996)

1995-1997 Renegade Liar's Poker (1995)

Paradise Lost (1996)

No Balls and Two Strikes (1996)

Mr. Success (1996)

Top Ten with a Bullet (1997)

1994-1997 Silk Stalkings Where There's a Will... (1994)

The Lonely Hunter (1995)

The Last Kiss Goodnight (1995)

Sudden Death (1996)

Pumped Up (1997)

1997 Stargate SG-1 Emancipation
1997 Once a Thief Mac Daddy
1997 Sleepwalkers
1997 Earth: Final Conflict Avatar

Float Like a Butterfly

1998 Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms TV movie
1998 Pensacola: Wings of Gold Boom
1998 Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business TV movie
1998 Lost Souls TV movie
1999 Power Play Purple Hazing
1997-1999 Sliders Murder Most Foul (1997)

The Other Slide of Darkness (1997)

The Java Jive (1999)

1997-2000 The Outer Limits Dead Man's Switch (1997)

Sarcophagus (1998)

The Other Side (1999)

The Human Operators (1999)

The Gun (2000)

The Beholder (2000)

2000 The Man Who Used to Be Me TV movie
2000 Freedom Assassins
2000 The Fearing Mind Call of the Wild
2001 The Invisible Man Money for Nothing: Part 2
2000-2001 Soul Food The Watermelon Theory (2000)

Come Back for the Comeback (2001)

2001 Strange Frequency
2001-2002 Dark Angel The Kidz Are Aiight (2001)

I and I Am a Camera (2001)

Designate This (2001)

Radar Love (2001)

Medium Is the Message (2001)

Hello, Goodbye (2002)

2002 UC: Undercover Teddy C
2002 Strange Frequency 2 TV movie
2002 The Agency French Kiss
2002 Smallville Red
2002 Birds of Prey [3] Sins of the Mother
2002 Taken a.k.a. "Steven Spielverg Presents Taken"Dropping the DishesTV Mini Series
2003 Black Sash Prime Suspect
2003 Tru Calling Past Tense
2004 Dead Like Me The Ledger
2004-2005 NCIS My Other Left Foot (2004)

Missing (2004)

Terminal Leave (2004)

Caught on Tape (2005)

Conspiracy Theory (2005)

2005 Beach Girls TV Mini Series
2005 Surface
2005-2006 Battlestar Galactica The Hand of God (2005)

Home: Part 2 (2005)

Downloaded (2006)

2004-2006 Las Vegas Games People Pay (2004)

Bold, Beautiful & Blue (2005)

Coyote Ugly (2006)

Cash Springs Eternal (2006)

2006 Eureka Dr. Nobel (2006)

H.O.U.S.E. Rules (2006)

2006 The House Next Door TV movie
2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Big Shots
2007NobodyTV movie
2007-2010 Bones The Killer in the Concrete (2007)

Intern in the Incinerator (2007)

The Santa in the Slush (2007)

The Finger in the Nest (2008)

Mayhem on a Cross (2009)

The Foot in the Foreclosure (2009)

The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle (2010)

2008 Céline TV movie
2008 Crusoe Sacrifice

High Water

2009 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles The Good Wound

Ourselves Alone

2009 Defying Gravity Fear
2009-2010 Being Erica Til Death (2009)

Everything She Wants (2009)

Being Adam (2010)

Erica, Interrupted (2010)

2010 Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story Part 1

Part 2

TV Mini Series
2010 Supernatural Dark Side of the Moon
2010 The Vampire Diaries Kill or Be Killed
2011 V Uneasy Lies the Head
2012 Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II Night One

Night 2

TV Mini Series
2012 Copper Surviving Death

Husbands and Fathers

La Tempête

Arsenic and Old Cake

2013 Jack TV movie
2013–2014 Perception Blindness (2013)

Toxic (2013)

Eternity (2014)

Inconceivable (2014)

2013-2015 Saving Hope All Things Must Pass (2013)

Vamonos (2013)

Narrow Margin (2015)

2014 Rookie Blue Exit Strategy
2014-2018 Vikings Answers in Blood (2014)

Unforgiven (2014)

Warrior's Fate (2015)

Scarred (2015)

Death All 'Round (2016)

The Last Ship (2016)

The Great Army (2017)

Revenge (2017)

Full Moon (2018)

The Joke (2018)

2015 Backstrom Bogeyman
2015 Heroes Reborn The Needs of the Many

The Lion's Den

TV Mini Series
2015-2021 The Expanse Remember the Cant (2015)

CQB (2015)

Static (2017)

Godspeed (2017)

Triple Point (2018)

Immolation (2018)

Oppressor (2019)

Displacement (2019)

Down and Out (2020)

Tribes (2021)

2016 Incorporated Downsizing
2018 Burden of Truth Wake Up Call

The Ties That Bind

2018-2023 Riverdale Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes (2018)

Chapter Ninety-Eight: Mr-Cypher (2021)

Chapter One Hundred and Seven: In the Fog (2022)

Chapter One Hundred Twenty-Two: Tales in a Jugular Vein (2023)

2018–2019 Cloak & Dagger Back Breaker (2018)

White Lines (2019)

2018–2020 The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina [4] Chapter Eleven: A Midwinter's Tale (2018)

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Eldritch Dark (2020)

2019 Runaways Devil's Torture Chamber
pre-productionGold on Ice

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