Kim Manners

Kim Manners (January 13, 1951 – January 25, 2009) was an American television producer, director and actor best known for his work on television series between 1995 - 2002.
Manners was the most prolific director on the show, having directed 51 episodes (just over 1/4 of the total episode count), as well as the longest serving. He also produced 159 episodes. He was known for his perfectionist and demanding approach to directing, as well as his colorful language when things were not satisfactory; the foul-mouthed character of Detective Manners in 's was modeled after him.
Prior to collaborating on the series, he worked on Charlie's Angels, 21 Jump Street, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. After The X-Files ended in 2002 (having directed the final episode), he served as executive producer and occasional director on the series Supernatural. He passed away due to cancer on January 25, 2009. 
Both the fourth season of Supernatural and a second-season episode of Breaking Bad (whose creator, , worked with Manners on The X-Files) were dedicated to him. In Season 10, Mulder places flowers down on the grave of Kim Manners, paying respects to the director.
==Director/Producer Credits==
Episode 	Episode 	Credit
Season 2	Season 2	Season 2
*"Die Hand Die Verletzt"	
*"Humbug"	Director
*"Død Kalm"
*"The Căluşari"
*"F. Emasculata"	
*"Our Town"
*"Anasazi"	Producer
Season 3	Season 3	Season 3
*"D.P.O."
*"Oubliette"	
*"Teso Dos Bichos"
*"Quagmire"	Director/Producer
*""
*"Grotesque"	
*"Apocrypha"	Director
*"The Blessing Way"
*"Paper Clip"
*"The List"
*"2Shy"
*"The Walk"
*"Nisei"
*"731"	
*"Revelations"
*"Syzygy"
*"Grotesque"
*"Hell Money"
*"Avatar"
*"Wetwired"
*"Talitha Cumi"	Producer
Season 4	Season 4	Season 4
*"Home"
*"Sanguinarium"
*"Tunguska"
*"Leonard Betts"	
*"Kaddish"
*"Max"
*"Zero Sum"
*"Demons"	Director/Producer
*"Herrenvolk"
*"Teliko"
*"The Field Where I Died"
*"Terma"
*"Paper Hearts"
*"El Mundo Gira"	
*"Memento Mori"
*"Tempus Fugit"
*"Synchrony"
*"Small Potatoes"
*"Elegy"
*"Gethsemane"	Producer
Season 5	Season 5	Season 5
*"Redux II"
*"Unusual Suspects"
*"Emily"
*"Chinga"	
*"Patient X"
*"Mind's Eye"
*"Folie a Deux"	Director/Producer
*"Redux"
*"Detour"
*"The Post-Modern Prometheus"
*"Schizogeny"
*"Kill Switch"	
*"Bad Blood"
*"The Red and the Black"
*"All Souls"
*"The End"	Producer
Season 6	Season 6	Season 6
*"The Beginning"
*"Dreamland"
*"The Rain King"
*"Two Fathers"	
*"Monday"
*"Milagro"
*"Field Trip"	Director/Producer
*"Drive"
*"Triangle"
*""
*"S.R. 819"
*"Tithonus"
*"One Son"
*"Agua Mala"	
*"Arcadia"
*"Alpha"
*"Trevor"
*"Milagro"
*"Three of a Kind"
*"Field Trip"
*"Biogenesis"	Producer
Season 7	Season 7	Season 7
*"The Sixth Extinction"
*"Hungry"
*"Signs and Wonders"
*"Closure"	
*"Theef"
*"Brand X"
*"Requiem"	Director/Producer
*"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati"
*"Millennium"
*"Rush"
*"The Goldberg Variation"
*"Orison"
*"The Amazing Maleeni"
*"Sein Und Zeit"
*"X-Cops"	
*"First Person Shooter"
*"En Ami"
*"Chimera"
*"All things"
*"Hollywood A.D."
*"Fight Club"
*"Je Souhaite"	Producer
Season 8	Season 8	Season 8
*"Within"
*"Without"
*"The Gift"
*"Per Manum"	
*"This Is Not Happening"
*"Essence"
*"Existence"	Director/Producer
*"Patience"
*"Roadrunners"
*"Via Negativa"
*"Surekill"
*"Salvage"	
*"DeadAlive"
*"Three Words"
*"Empedocles"
*"Vienen"
*"Alone"	Producer
Season 9	Season 9	Season 9
*"Nothing Important Happened Today"
*"Lord of the Flies"
*"Hellbound"
*"Provenance"	
*"Audrey Pauley"
*"Release"
*"The Truth: Part 1 & 2"	Director/Producer
*"4-D" 	
*"John Doe"	Producer
Category:Production staff
Category:Directors
Category:Deceased cast and crew
Category:1951 births
Category:2009 deaths