Michael Winters (actor)

Michael Winters
Born	(1945-02-21) February 21, 1945 (age 79) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present

Michael Winters (born February 21, 1945) is an American actor of stage and television. He is best known for playing uptight town selectman Taylor Doose on the WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). He played the role for all seven seasons of the comedy-drama and reprised it for the 2016 revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.[1]

Biography

On stage, Winters appeared on Broadway in Wrong Mountain. He spent seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Company, including roles as King Lear and Falstaff. He has also played Prospero with the Seattle Shakespeare Company. He previously spent 10 years with the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has performed with several other theater companies in Western USA.[2][3]

His other screen credits include recurring roles on Days of Our Lives and Ally McBeal, and guest roles on Friends, The Nanny, Cheers, Frasier, and Law & Order.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Until the End of the World
1993	The Hit List	Fingerprint Detective
1993	The Temp	Mercer
1998	Deep Impact	NASA Guy
1998	Love Kills	The Lawyer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Eye on the Sparrow	Ophthalmologist	TV film
1992	Brooklyn Bridge	Mr. Myler	"In the Still of the Night"
1992	L.A. Law	Judge Lester Knot	"Helter Shelter", "Christmas Stalking"
1993	Nurses	Roy	"Family Outing"
1993	Between Love and Hate	Process Server	TV film
1993	Cheers	Security Guard	"The Last Picture Show"
1993	And the Band Played On	Middle-aged Man	TV film
1995	The Nanny	Doug Emerson	"The Will"
1995	Grace Under Fire	Danny	"Emmet's Secret", "Emmet, We Hardly Knew Ye"
1995–96	The Single Guy	Mike	"Neighbors", "Davy Jones"
1996	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Ike Warren	"The Bob Episode"
1996	Doomsday Virus	Prof. Ernest Helms	TV miniseries
1997	Home Improvement	The Minister	"Taps"
1997	Arliss	Oscar Schumacher	"Visionary for a New Millennium"
1997	Hiller and Diller	Mr. Esclante	"The Play's the Thing"
1997–98	Ally McBeal	Judge Herbert Spitt	"The Promise", "Cro-Magnon", "The Playing Field"
1998	The Lake	Dr. Braden	TV film
1998	Friends	The Doctor	"The One with All the Thanksgivings"
1999	Providence	Dr. Anthony	"Runaway Sydney"
1999	The Wayans Bros.	Mr. Crump	"Pops Gets Evicted"
1999	Invisible Child		TV film
1999	Dharma & Greg	Rodney	"Dharma Drags Edward Out of Retirement"
1999	Jesse	INS Guy	"I Do, I Think I Do"
2000	Law & Order	Mr. Clayborn	"Narcosis"
2000–2007	Gilmore Girls	Taylor Doose	Recurring role
2001	The Guardian	Dr. Ridestrom	"Heart"
2002	The Division	Spence	"Beyond the Grave"
2003	The Practice	Dr. Gavin Bloomberg	"Down the Hatch"
2003	Frasier	Bank President	"Roe to Perdition"
2003	NYPD Blue	Adam Zaretsky / Dr. Kenneth Hale	"Meet the Grandparents"
2006	Days of Our Lives	Dr. Jim Finch	3 episodes
2016	Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life	Taylor Doose	TV miniseries

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Twelfth Night	Sir Toby Belch	Marian Theater at Allan Hancock College
1988	God's Country	Various	ACT
1988	Principia Scriptoriae	Hans Einhorn	ACT
1989	Red Noses	Monselet / Bigod	ACT
1989	Happenstance	Various	ACT
1989	Woman in Mind	Bill	ACT
1990	The Falcon		ACT
1990	Hapgood	Paul Blair	ACT
1991	The Kentucky Cycle		Intiman Theatre
1991	Our Country's Good	Capt. Jeremy Campbell / Midshipman Harry Brewer / John Arscott	ACT
1991	Halcyon Days	Raper	ACT
1992	The Kentucky Cycle		Center Theater Group
1992	Shadowlands	C. S. Lewis	ACT
1993	Lonely Planet	Jody	ACT
1993	Life During Wartime	Various	ACT
1994	Gray's Anatomy	Phineas Wingfield	ACT
1994	Man of the Moment	Douglas Beechey	ACT
1995	Handing Down the Names	Ensemble	ACT
1996	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Val Skolsky	ACT
2000	Wrong Mountain	Guy Halperin	Broadway
2000	Talley's Folly	Matt Friedman	ACT
2001	A Delicate Balance	Tobias	Seattle Repertory Theatre
2002	Dirty Blonde	Various	ACT
2003	Absurd Person Singular	Ronald Brewster-Wright	ACT
2004	Alki	King of the Haints / Ensemble	ACT
2004	Enchanted April	Frederick Arnott	ACT
2005	Three Sisters	Ivan Romanich Chebutykin	Intiman Theatre
2005	Candida		The Malibu Stage Company
2006	Richard III	Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham	Intiman Theatre
2006	Heartbreak House	Capt. Shotover	Intiman Theatre
2007	Stuff Happens	Dick Cheney	ACT
2007	Heartbreak House	Capt. Shotover	Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2008	Mame	Uncle Jeff / Mr. Upson	5th Avenue Theatre
2008	The Diary of Anne Frank	Mr. Hermann van Daan	Intiman Theatre
2008	Agamemnon		The Getty Villa
2008	Becky's New Car	Walter Flood	ACT
2008–09	You Can't Take It With You	Grandpa	Seattle Repertory Theatre
2009	The Tempest	Prospero	Seattle Shakespeare Company
2010	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Daddy	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2010	The Merchant of Venice	Old Gobbo / Ensemble	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2010	Throne of Blood	Old General / Ensemble	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2011	Ten Chimneys	Sydney Greenstreet	Arizona Theatre Company
2011	Henry IV, Part 2	Sir John Falstaf	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2011	Love's Labour's Lost	Holofernes	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2012	The Making of a King: Henry V	Various	PlayMakers Repertory Company
2012	Inspecting Carol	Sidney Carlton	Seattle Repertory Theatre
2013	King Lear	Lear	Oregon Shakespeare Fesetival
2013	The Liquid Plain	James De Woolf	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2014	A Great Wilderness	Walt	Seattle Repertory Theatre
2014	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Sir John Falstaff	Colorado Shakespeare Festival
2014	The Tempest	Gonzalo	Colorado Shakespeare Festival
2015	The Great Society	Various	Seattle Repertory Theatre
2015	All the Way	Sen. Richard Russell	Seattle Repertory Theatre
2015	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2015	The Count of Monte Cristo	Father Dantès	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2016	Straight White Men	Ed	The Studio Theatre
2017	Evidence of Things Unseen	Jack	Taproot Theatre Company

References

1. "Actor Michael Winters: from "Gilmore Girls" to "Straight White Men"". WJLA. December 20, 2016.
2. "Seattle actor Michael Winters on why Shakespeare's his man". The Seattle Times. June 5, 2009.
3. "Michael Winters". Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

External links

• Michael Winters at IMDb
• Michael Winters at the Internet Broadway Database