Michael Tollin

Biography

Michael "Mike" Tollin (born June 10, 1955) is an American film director and film/television producer. His career highlights included Radio, Coach Carter, and Varsity Blues. He frequently collaborates with Brian Robbins in which they own a production company together called Tollin/Robbins Productions. They created and produced such shows like All That, The Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel, One Tree Hill, Smallville, What I Like About You, The Bronx is Burning and a few others. Tollin was the producer of the weekly highlights show for the United States Football League, the springtime football league which played from 1983 through 1985. In 2009, he served as executive producer for the hour-long documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? for ESPN's 30 for 30 series. He was also part of a number of the series films, as one of the production members. Tollin is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Tollin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed

1. Radio (2003) — Director
2. Summer Catch (2001) — Director
3. 30 for 30 (2009) — Director
4. Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? (2009) — Director
5. Arli$$ (1996) — Director
6. Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995) — Director
7. Unstrung (2007) — Director
8. Hardwood Dreams (1993) — Director
9. The Final Season (1989) — Director
10. Tose: The Movie (2015) — Director
11. Morningside 5 (2017) — Director
12. Rolling Along (2023) — Director
13. Great Sports Moments of the 80's (1989) — Director
14. Improbably Gibson (2018) — Director
15. Unraveling George (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? (2009) — Self
2. Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie (2005) — Self