Michael Tollin Biography

Michael Tollin is an American film and television producer/director. His career highlights included Radio, Coach Carter, and Varsity Blues. He has created and produced such shows as All That, The Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel, One Tree Hill, Smallville, What I Like About You, The Bronx is Burning, and Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream. He is currently the Co-Chairman of Mandalay Sports Media.

Michael Tollin Age

Michael Tollin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US on October 6, 1955. He is 63 years as of 2018.

Michael Tollin Family

Michael Tollin grew up in Havertown, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Sol Tollin (1929–2006), played basketball and baseball for Haverford College from 1947-1951. Tollin has a passion for sports which started at a young age growing up in the outskirts of the sports-crazed city of Philadelphia. Both he and his father were inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

He graduated from Haverford High School and Stanford University in 1977, where he was a sports columnist and the play-by-play radio announcer for Stanford basketball.

Michael Tollin Wife

He is married to Robbie Tollin. However, information about the progress of their marriage is still under review.

Michael Tollin Career

After graduating from Stanford, Tollin’s first job was producer/writer for a syndicated series of sports documentaries called Greatest Sports Legends. Within one year of his arrival, Tollin began directing the series. He went on to work with MLB Productions in New York and was one of the creators of an Emmy Award-winning series called The Baseball Bunch.

In 1980, he was the writer of the official World Series film in which his favorite team, the Philadelphia Phillies, defeated the Kansas City Royals in six games. His script was narrated by Vin Scully.

In 1982, Tollin framed his very own organization, Halcyon Days Productions, and was granted select rights to the United States Football League, a spring master football class which played from 1983 through 1985. Tollin later coordinated the ESPN 30 for 30 films, “Little Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?” where he and others related with the USFL, strikingly previous New Jersey Generals proprietor Donald Trump, offered a review on the group (the title originated from a statement from Trump). Notwithstanding its work on the USFL, Halcyon Days Productions additionally created games documentaries, children’s shows, and diversion specials.

After the fall of the USFL, Tollin moved to California and united with Brian Robbins. Together they began Tollin/Robbins Productions. In 1993, Tollin and Robbins created their first narrative together Hardwood Dreams, which won the Crystal Heart grant at the 1993 Heartland Film Festival.

The film moved toward becoming Tollin and Robbins’ calling card. Throughout the following 15 years, Tollin and Robbins collaborated to direct and create in excess of twelve component films, grant-winning documentaries and many long periods of TV. Some of Tollin/Robbins features incorporate the movies Varsity Blues, Coach Carter, Radio, Dreamer, Wild Hogs and Hardball; the TV arrangement Smallville, Arli$$ and One Tree Hill; just as a few honor winning documentaries, including Academy Award selected Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, which Tollin composed, created and coordinated.

In 2007 Robbins and Tollin chose to genially part up to their organization both referring to a craving to chip away at their own meaningful ventures. In 2012, Tollin partnered with Mandalay Entertainment chairman and CEO Peter Guber to form Mandalay Sports Media. MSM is a sports media and production company, the expressed purpose of which is to further define sports-entertainment programming through development in all current aspects of visual media. The company’s portfolio runs the gamut from sports movies to scripted and unscripted series, documentaries, web series, and branded content.

Philanthropy

Tollin is an active philanthropist and sits on the board of directors of several foundations. Those foundations include Common Sense Media, which is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology, and the Hank Aaron: Chasing The Dream Foundation, a program that awards scholarships to assist youth in honing their skills through classes and tutoring. Tollin has also founded several charities himself.

Tollin co-founded the first annual World Adoption Day on November 9, 2014, to celebrate adoption and raise awareness about financial barriers that prevent potential adopters from becoming parents. He is also a founding member of PACE (Philanthropy And Community Engagement) a small, private organization dedicated to finding and supporting good works with a particular focus on children’s and family issues.

Michael Tollin Net Worth

Tollin is an American television and film producer and director who has a net worth of $20 million,

Director

• 1982: The Baseball Bunch (TV Series documentary, 1 episode)
• 1986: Centennial: Over 100 Years of Philadelphia Phillies Baseball (video)
• 1987: Kids on Kids on Kids (TV Movie)
• 1988: The Final Season (Documentary)
• 1989: Buy Me That! A Kids’ Survival Guide to TV Advertising (TV Movie)
• 1993: Hardwood Dreams (Documentary) (credited as Michael Jay Tollin)
• 1995: Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (Documentary)
• 1996: Arli$$ (TV Series, 1 episode “The Client’s Best Interest”)
• 1998: Cousin Skeeter (TV Series)
• 2001: Summer Catch (credited as Mike Tollin)
• 2003: Radio
• 2007: Unstrung (Documentary)
• 2009: 30 for 30 (TV Series) (1 episode, “Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?”)

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