
Person
J. Miles Dale
Production · Born 1961-01-01 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
J. Miles Dale (born 1961) is a Canadian producer and director of film and television. He is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film The Shape of Water, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony. Dale is a regular collaborator of fellow director Guillermo del Toro and formed a creative partnership with Netflix. Dale was born in Toronto, Ontario, to British-born Canadian jazz musician Jimmy Dale. Dale attended Bayview Glen School from 1965 to 1968. In 1968, his father moved the family to Hollywood, where he worked as a music director for The Smothers Brothers Show, The Andy Williams Show, and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. The family returned to Toronto in the mid-1970s, and Miles graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute. He attended the University of Toronto for a year and later transferred to the University of British Columbia before dropping out to join the film industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Miles Dale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

The Strain
Director

Andromeda
Director

Shadowhunters
Executive Producer

Earth: Final Conflict
Director

The Oscars
Self

Frankenstein
Producer

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
Director

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Executive Producer

Mama
Producer

The Shape of Water
Producer
Filmography
- 2025Frankenstein: The Anatomy LessonSelf - Producer
- 2025FrankensteinProducer
- 2023The Last Voyage of the DemeterThanks
- 2022Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of CuriositiesExecutive Producer
- 2021Nightmare AlleyProducer
- 2021AntlersProducer
- 2019Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkProducer
- 2017The Shape of WaterProducer
- 2016ShadowhuntersExecutive Producer
- 2014The StrainDirector
- 2014Endless LoveExecutive Producer
- 2013IrisProducer
- 2013CarrieExecutive Producer
- 2013MamaProducer
- 2012The VowExecutive Producer
- 2011The ThingExecutive Producer
- 2010The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'Self
- 2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldExecutive Producer
- 2009Love HappensExecutive Producer
- 2009PontypoolExecutive Producer
- 2008Flash of GeniusExecutive Producer
- 2007Talk to MeProgram Director
- 2007'Til Death Do Us PartDirector
- 2006HollywoodlandSecond Unit Director
- 2004Harold & Kumar Go to White CastleCo-Producer
- 2004The Skulls IIIProducer
- 2003BlizzardAdditional reindeer voices
- 2002Sue Thomas: F.B.EyeDirector
- 2002The Skulls IICo-Producer
- 2001Wolf GirlSecond Unit Director
- 2001Harvard ManCo-Producer
- 2000AndromedaDirector
- 2000SideshowProducer
- 1997Earth: Final ConflictDirector
- 1994RoboCop: The SeriesProducer
- 1985The Comedy FactoryAssociate Producer
- 1953The OscarsSelf
- —MockingbirdProducer
- —The Boy in the Iron BoxProducer
- —FuryProducer
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