Michael Pavone

Michael Pavone currently serves as the Executive Vice President of WWE Studios with WWE. In 1992, Pavone was a writer for the television series Renegade. In 1993, he was a writer for the television series Against the Grain. He adapted a play for television in 1993 for Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth. In 1994, he was a writer for the unsold television pilot Golden Gate. Pavone directed and wrote the film Chameleon in 1995 and in that same year he was a writer for the television series Medicine Ball. He was also a writer for the television series The Monroes and The Client in 1995. In 2002 Pavone was a writer for the television series Street Time. In 2005 Michael Pavone became a writer for the hit Fox Network show Prison Break. He is credited for writing the episode "Cell Test" in Season 1 of the show. Pavane has also worked as television director, directing episodes of Jack & Jill, Everwood and the aforementioned The Client series. As well as directing the films That's What I Am (2011), The Reunion (2011), which were both produced by WWE Studios.

Works

Barricade

A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.

Release Date:2012-09-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:71

Bending The Rules

Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, they’ll need to rely on luck – and patience – to take down a dangerous killer without killing each other first.

Release Date:2012-03-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:69

The Reunion

The Cleary brothers, Sam, Leo and Douglas took dysfunctional families to a new level: Sam and Leo have grown up hating each other and neither likes their juvenile delinquent kid brother, Douglas, to whom they've only recently been introduced. The sons share the same father, a womanizing drunk, but all have different mothers. Their father died a rich man and when they're brought together by their sister Nina to learn which of them will inherit the old man's fortune, they are handed an unpleasant surprise.

Release Date:2011-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:89

That's What I Am

A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers.

Release Date:2011-04-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:185

The Chaperone

An ex-con on the run from his criminal past, hides out from those he ratted on by chaperoning a field trip to New Orleans.

Release Date:2011-02-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:151

Knucklehead

A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.

Release Date:2010-10-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:61

Legendary

A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his father, a college wrestling legend, 10 years ago.

Release Date:2010-09-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:120

Prison Break

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

Release Date:2005-08-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5304

Everwood

After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.

Release Date:2002-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:198

Street Time

Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.

Release Date:2002-06-23

Character:Donnie Paruana

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Jack & Jill

A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.

Release Date:1999-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:20

Charmed

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

Release Date:1998-10-07

Character:Doctor

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2337

Chameleon

An undercover agent uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.

Release Date:1996-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

High Incident

High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson. It first aired on March 4, 1996, running a total of 32 episodes.

Release Date:1996-03-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

The Client

The Client is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 18, 1995 to August 16, 1996. The series was based on the 1994 film The Client, itself adapted from the 1993 John Grisham novel also of the same name.

Release Date:1995-09-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth

A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake.

Release Date:1993-10-03

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Against the Grain

Insurance salesman Ed Clemons has just taken on the task of coaching the slumping high school football team of the small, but football-crazy town of Sumpter, Texas. He is given just one season to turn the fumbling teens around, and he throws himself into the job wholeheartedly. Though his methods ruffle the feathers of the quiet little town, he manages to make some real progress with the players. The show was inspired by Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream.

Release Date:1993-10-01

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1