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Winrich Kolbe was a German-American television director and producer who worked on Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica. He directed 48 episodes of Star Trek across four series, including the Hugo Award-winning finale of The Next Generation, and was involved in the casting of Kate Mulgrew as Janeway.
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kate mulgrew and winrich kolbe winrich kolbe death ice planet Winrich Kolbe (1940-2012) was a Dutch-born American director and producer who worked on various TV shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, 24 and Battlestar Galactica. He also taught film and television at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
- Director, Producer, Additional Crew
- August 9, 1940
- Winrich Kolbe
- September 1, 2012
Oct 27, 2012 · Winrich Kolbe, who helmed 48 episodes of Star Trek shows, passed away in September 2012 after a long illness. He was known for his work on TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, as well as his relationship with Kate Mulgrew.
Winrich Kolbe was a director and producer of Star Trek, 24 and McCloud. He was born in Amsterdam in 1940 and died in the USA in 2012.
- August 9, 1940
- September 1, 2012
- Overview
- Career
- Later years and death
- Star Trek credits
- Star Trek awards
- Star Trek interviews
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Winrich "Rick" Ernst Rudolf Kolbe (9 November 1940 – September 2012; age 71) was a German national born in the Netherlands (during its occupation in World War II), who had worked on all four Star Trek spin-off series of the Rick Berman era.
A character listed in a piece of background signage in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up The Long Ladder", Captain Winrich Kolbe, was named after him. The Next Generation series' finale, "All Good Things..." co-earned Kolbe a Hugo award.
Kolbe served in the Vietnam War, an experience he drew on when he directed "The Siege of AR-558". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 629))
Though at the time still married, Kolbe made the tabloids when he started dating the recently divorced Captain Kathryn Janeway actress Kate Mulgrew during the early seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, a relationship that ended when Mulgrew became engaged to her future second husband. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine issue 6, p. 39; )
Kolbe became a US citizen when he moved to the USA to study architecture, but ended up being drafted during the Vietnam War, in which he served as an artillery spotter in the US Army.
After his service in the US Army, Kolbe started directing for the television series Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries and moved on to episodes of Battlestar Galactica (1978), Sword of Justice, and The Weavers, followed by The Rockford Files, Knight Rider, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King for Warner Bros. In 1987 Kolbe and his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he directed Spenser: For Hire, followed by its spin-off A Man Called Hawk, starring Avery Brooks.
From 2003 to 2007, Kolbe was a professor of Film and Television at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Around March 2007, he resigned and returned to California with his family for health reasons.
A private family affair, his sister has only been willing to confirm that Kolbe died in late September 2012. (DGA Monthly, November 2012; )
•TNG:
•"Where Silence Has Lease"
•"Pen Pals"
•"Up The Long Ladder"
•"Evolution"
•"The Bonding"
Hugo Award
Kolbe received the following Hugo Award in the category Best Dramatic Presentation •1995 Hugo Award for the episode TNG: "All Good Things...", shared with Brannon Braga and Ron D. Moore
•TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "The Making of "All Good Things..." Year Seven" ("On Location"), interviewed on 21 March 1994
•VOY Season 1 DVD special feature On Location with the Kazons, interviewed on 28 September 1994
German-born American director Winrich Kolbe was an in-demand television director from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s. Much of his best-known work was on the Star Trek franchise; Mr. Kolbe directed a total of 48 episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.
Sep 1, 2012 · Winrich Kolbe is a director, actor, producer, and writer who worked on various TV shows and movies, especially in the Star Trek franchise. See his biography, filmography, and awards on TMDB.
