Michael Boland

Michael Anthony Boland (December 16, 1949 – October 5, 2025) was a Canadian cinematographer and professional ice hockey player. He played two NHL games with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1974–75 season and also played 41 WHA games with the Ottawa Nationals, before beginning to work as a television and documentary film camera operator.

Boland won a Primetime Emmy Award (shared with Vic Sarin) for his work on the 1992 episode "Strange Relations" of the television series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. He and Sarin also won a Gemini Award for Best Photography in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for the same episode.

In 2012 he published his memoir, Through the Lens of My Eye: Adventures of a Documentary Cameraman.

He was codirector with Roberto Verdecchia of "Gorilla Doctors", a 2014 episode of The Nature of Things which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.

Boland died on October 5, 2025, at the age of 75.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Regular seasonPlayoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1967–68 University of Toronto CIAU — — — — — — — — — — 1968–69 University of Toronto CIAU 10 5 5 10 4 — — — — — 1969–70 University of Toronto CIAU 10 3 13 16 22 — — — — — 1970–71 University of Toronto CIAU 1 1 0 1 0 — — — — — 1970–71 Springfield Kings AHL 34 7 5 12 33 12 2 6 8 4 1971–72 Springfield Kings AHL 48 4 20 24 47 5 1 0 1 2 1972–73 Ottawa Nationals WHA 41 1 15 16 44 1 0 0 0 12 1973–74 Richmond Robins AHL 38 10 19 29 49 5 3 1 4 8 1974–75 Philadelphia Firebirds NAHL 59 31 55 86 49 3 2 1 3 0 1974–75 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1975–76 Philadelphia Firebirds NAHL 13 4 8 12 9 — — — — — 1975–76 Cape Codders NAHL 35 13 23 36 24 — — — — — 1976–77 FPS FIN 17 5 12 17 30 — — — — — 1976–77 HIFK FIN 18 6 4 10 28 4 0 0 0 0 1978–79 Philadelphia Firebirds AHL 3 0 0 0 0 — — — — — WHA totals 41 1 15 16 44 1 0 0 0 12 NHL totals 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — —