Mikael Salomon

Mikael Salomon is a Danish filmmaker and cinematographer. After a long career in Denmark, he moved to Hollywood in the late 1980s. He has been nominated for an Oscar twice.

Works

King on Screen

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world.

Release Date:2023-08-11

Character:Self

Vote Count:10

Valor

The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

Release Date:2017-10-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:46

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.

Release Date:2016-03-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:116

The Expanse

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Release Date:2015-12-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2474

Blood & Oil

Billy and Cody LeFever dream of a new life and move to "The Bakken" in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history. They’re soon pitted against a ruthless tycoon who forces them to put everything on the line, including their marriage.

Release Date:2015-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:37

Powers

Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Set amidst today’s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the world was full of superheroes who aren't actually heroic at all? What if all that power was just one more excuse for mischief, mayhem, murder, and endorsement deals?

Release Date:2015-03-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:173

Big Driver

Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

Release Date:2014-10-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:207

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.

Release Date:2014-01-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:34

Freezer

New York city mechanic Robert Saunders is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner by Russian thugs and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's industrial freezer. This ruthless gang demand he return the $8 million he has stolen from them. The only problem Robert has no idea what they are talking about. But as the temperature drops and the terror grows, the shocking truth begins to emerge as Robert struggles to survive.

Release Date:2014-01-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:114

Coma

A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table.

Release Date:2012-09-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:54

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.

Release Date:2012-06-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1429

Falling Skies

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

Release Date:2011-06-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1179

Camelot

Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.

Release Date:2011-02-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:166

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor before ultimately claiming to be an heir to the famous Rockefeller family. Confident from the success of his prior scams, Clark quickly became well known and highly respected among Boston's elite and used his purported high society status to charm his way into the life of Sandra Boss, a millionaire with a Harvard MBA and a partner at the prestigious management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company.

Release Date:2010-12-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

The Lost Future

A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.

Release Date:2010-11-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:139

Unnatural History

Teenager Henry Griffin acquired many skills through years of travelling the world with his anthropologist parents. Sent to live with his uncle and cousin in Washington DC, and with the help of his cousin Jasper and friend Maggie, he must now use those skills to solve the modern mysteries of high school.

Release Date:2010-06-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:10

Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration

Interviews analyzing and looking back at the making of, and the impact made by, of one of the greatest epic films ever produced.

Release Date:2010-05-04

Character:Self

Hawthorne

Christina Hawthorne is a compassionate and headstrong Chief Nursing Officer heading up a group of dedicated nurses at Richmond Trinity Hospital on the hospital's front lines. She does everything in her power to help her patients. When necessary, she takes on doctors and administrators who are overworked, distracted or just unable to see the human being behind the hospital chart. But the long days at the hospital and Hawthorne’s intense focus on helping others take a toll on her personal life.

Release Date:2009-06-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:44

Natalee Holloway

On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.

Release Date:2009-04-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

Flirting with Forty

A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

Release Date:2008-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:55

Terra Incognita: Making the Andromeda Strain

A behind the scenes look at the background and making of the 2008 TV mini-series

Release Date:2008-07-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Andromeda Strain

A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of highly specialized scientists is assembled to find a cure and stop the spread of the alien pathogen, code-named Andromeda.

Release Date:2008-05-26

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:214

The Company

The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself.

Release Date:2007-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:45

Fallen

The phenomenal journey of Aaron Corbett, an 18-year-old Nephilim (half-angel/half human), as he struggles to come to terms with his role as The Redeemer and is drawn into a world where angels walk among us.

Release Date:2007-08-04

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:40

Fallen

For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too -- half human, half angel, with supernatural abilities.

Release Date:2006-07-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:129

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

An anthology series based on the works of Stephen King.

Release Date:2006-07-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:110

Over There

Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.

Release Date:2005-11-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:23

Rome

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Release Date:2005-08-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1298

The Grid

A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell that is operating on a global level.

Release Date:2004-07-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:14

Salem's Lot

A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

Release Date:2004-06-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:175

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washington is remembered as America's founding father, Arnold as America's most notorious traitor. Benedict Arnold rose from humble origins to become the most respected and feared of America's generals. He won brilliant military victories against the English colonists and was Washington's favorite soldier. But two conflicting forces battled inside Arnold's heart; a deep concern for his country and his passionate love for an enchanting and manipulative English woman, Peggy Shippen. Blinded by desire, Arnold defected to the English army, orchestrating an attempt to assassinate his own mentor, George Washington.

Release Date:2003-01-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Young Arthur

Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.

Release Date:2002-05-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Alias

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

Release Date:2001-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:639

The Agency

The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association with Universal Network Television and CBS Productions. It aired from September 27, 2001 until May 17, 2003, lasting two seasons. It featured unprecedented filming from the actual CIA headquarters. The show was controversial regarding its exploration of current international affairs and its treatment of the ethical conflicts inherent in intelligence work. Beckner's pilot script, written in March 2001, posited a re-invented CIA tasked with a "War on Terror" after Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization plots a lethal attack on the west. The pilot was to premiere at CIA Headquarters on September 18, 2001 and set to air on CBS September 21, 2001, however, the actual 9/11 attacks convinced the network to hold the pilot and instead air a later episode. That first episode was aired later as the third episode of the first season. The September 11, 2001 terrorist events changed the way Americans viewed topical entertainment and "The Agency", at the time, was one of the most topical offering on network television. The producers of the series quickly responded to this new American perspective on world affairs, but CBS chose to cancel the show shortly after the second season's final episode.

Release Date:2001-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:11

Band of Brothers

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

Release Date:2001-09-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:3668

A Glimpse of Hell

A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.

Release Date:2001-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

Sole Survivor

A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but a mysterious conspiracy involving children.

Release Date:2000-09-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Without warning, an earthquake rips through the "City That Never Sleeps," turning it into a vulnerable state of chaos: skyscrapers topple, subways are buried in the rubble, countless lives are lost and loved ones are torn apart. As turmoil reigns in the screaming streets, Mayor Bruce Lincoln and former Fire Chief Thomas Ahearn race against time to enact a city-wide emergency plan.

Release Date:1999-11-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:42

Hard Rain

An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.

Release Date:1998-01-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:721

Nash Bridges

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.

Release Date:1996-03-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:101

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

Documentary about the challenging making of the sci-fi film "The Abyss" , with commentary by various actors and crew, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage of the actual shooting of the film.

Release Date:1993-09-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

A Far Off Place

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.

Release Date:1993-03-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:57

Space Rangers

Space Rangers is an American futuristic science fiction drama. The short lived series aired on CBS in 1993. The show was created by Pen Densham and Trilogy Entertainment Group.

Release Date:1993-01-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

Far and Away

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh winter conditions, they must fend off her parents who are determined to bring her back home.

Release Date:1992-05-22

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:1209

Backdraft

Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

Release Date:1991-05-24

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:1440

Arachnophobia

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.

Release Date:1990-07-20

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:1404

Always

Aerial firefighter Pete risks himself and his vintage World War II airplane in a constant and death-defying quest to fight forest wildfires, much to the dismay of his girlfriend, Dorinda. His love for Dorinda and the advice of fellow pilot Al convince Pete to give up his perilous career, but he flies one last mission. Pete heroically saves Al's plane from certain destruction, but with supernatural consequences.

Release Date:1989-12-22

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:601

The Abyss

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

Release Date:1989-08-09

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:3052

Torch Song Trilogy

Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

Release Date:1988-12-14

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:91

Zelly & Me

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the grandmother cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs.

Release Date:1988-04-15

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:10

Once a Cop...

Policeman Karl Jørgensen was once a prominent detective, but due to a violent temper he's now checking out passports at the airport, smuggling stout to work in his thermos every day. However, Kaj, the boyfriend of his daughter, is suddenly killed by a heroin overdose injected by hooded gangsters. It turns out he was spying on their organisation for his brother, Frank, who was framed by them while smuggling narcotics. When Frank hears about Kaj's death, he escapes from prison to get back at the killers. Meanwhile, the same gangsters threaten Karl Jørgensen's daughter, and soon Karl is involved in a major drug smuggling case. Frank and his buddy rob a bank and shoot a police officer. A country-wide manhunt ensues while Karl is having trouble with controlling his daughter's vigilante activities, with finding out who killed Kaj, with the police detectives on the case and with his own alcoholic and lacking existence.

Release Date:1987-11-07

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

Release Date:1987-10-31

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:6

The Wolf at the Door

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.

Release Date:1986-09-05

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:11

Elvis! Elvis!

The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.

Release Date:1976-11-20

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:5

Copper

Efter et sanatorieophold pga. voldelig opførsel under en arrestation, bliver kriminalassistent Karl Jørgensen overført til bedrageriafdelingen. Her opdager Karl en sag, hvor hans ekskone og hendes nye mand er indblandet. Da Karl begynder at undersøge sagen, bliver han stoppet af politimesteren. Karl slår sig sammen med journalisten John Bullnes. De kommer efterhånden tættere på sandheden, men stoppes da en mistænkt begår selvmord. Karl bliver suspenderet og Bullnes sendes til Berlin på en opgave. Karl tager herefter sagen i egen hånd og anholder byens borgmester og en stor entreprenør. © Copyright 1997-2012, Lone Hansen & Per Kjær Fredborg

Release Date:1976-10-29

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:4

På flykt undan mina landsmän

"On the Run from my Fellow Countrymen" - About Bertolt Brecht as a refugee in Sweden. When war seemed imminent in April 1939, Brecht moved to Stockholm, where he remained for a year.

Release Date:1976-02-23

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Only the Truth

A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman denies everything, even though witnesses has seen her nearby the crime scene. She simply can’t remember anything, but the detective on the case, Mørck, knows how to smell a lie and soon start to unravel this bloody mess.

Release Date:1975-08-22

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:2

Around the World with Fanny Hill

In Stockholm, Fanny Hill is tired of being a housewife, and she suspects that her husband Roger, a TV-commercial director who's surrounded by starlets, is cheating on her. So, she sets a trap for him with her friend Monica, files for divorce, and heads to Hollywood, with Monica, to meet film stars. She falls into a film career, with lots of nude scenes, and as it takes her from L.A. to Hong Kong and Venice, Roger follows her, jealous, hoping to win her back. In every city, she acts and she seduces, making comedy out of both; but does her heart still belong to Roger? It's on to Munich to find out.

Release Date:1974-01-20

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:6

Bedside Highway

In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local village to end up in the sack. His goal is to get them to sign papers allowing a new highway to go through the middle of town. Their goal is to get him to re-route the highway.

Release Date:1972-09-15

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:5

Z.P.G.

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

Release Date:1972-05-25

Department:Camera

Job:Additional Photography

Vote Count:50

Chinese Ping-Pong

An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of all, it is a film about their style, about the artistic culmination that is ping-pong at its best, it records China's comeback into the international sports world.

Release Date:1972-03-22

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:3

Why Do They Do It?

"Why Do They Do It ?" preached that it was decent to be a sexual creature. A panel discussion in the Student Association as a kind of frame, you watch various so-called live shows and you met actors like Effie Schou, Søren Strømberg, Dale Robinson and Keld Rex Holm. A lot of attention was given to Bodil Joensen, a very pet-friendly young lady, who would like to enjoy a bull named Sofus.

Release Date:1971-01-29

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:9

Tintomara

In March 1792 the Swedish King Gustav III is murdered at a masked ball. Five young people are involved in the murder story, including Tintomara, a 17 year old inter-sex who dominates over the others.

Release Date:1970-11-18

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Daddy, Darling

A young Danish girl seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that her teenage boyfriend is dear old dad and finally get to her stepmother.

Release Date:1970-11-01

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:10

Famous Five Get in Trouble

The four kids, Julian, Dick, Georgina and Anne plus the dog Tim go on a bike-trip without any grownups around, but they are soon followed by a another boy, Richard, who is pursued by kidnappers.

Release Date:1970-10-16

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:4

Five and the Spies

The children Julian, Dick and Anne spends a summer holiday at the Kirrin Farm, where there cousin Georgina lives with her dog Tim, and her parents. The tomboyish Georgina is punished for her poor school performance, and her father hires a private teacher.

Release Date:1969-10-13

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:5