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.
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]
Year | Title | Episode(s) | Notes |
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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 Dishes | TV 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 | |
2007 | Nobody | TV 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-production | Gold on Ice |
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