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'''Winrich Kolbe''' has directed a number of Star Trek episodes in all franchises except for [[TOS]].
  
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[[File:Winrich Kolbe.jpg|thumb|Winrich Kolbe in 1994]]
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[[File:Winrich Kolbe and Denise Crosby.jpg|thumb|Kolbe with [[Denise Crosby]] on the set of "All Good Things...]]
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'''Winrich "Rick" E. Kolbe''' ([[Star Trek birthdays|born]] {{y|1940}} - [[Star Trek deaths|died]] {{m|September|2012}}, age 71) was a television director, who worked on all four ''[[Star Trek]]'' spin-off series. A character listed in a piece of background signage in ''The Next Generation'' episode {{e|Up The Long Ladder}}, [[Winrich Kolbe (Captain)|Captain Winrich Kolbe]], was named after him.
   
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==Career==
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Mr. Kolbe has been directing TV episodes since the early [[1970s]]. His credits include:
  
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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]].
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* ''CHiPs''
  
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* ''Battlestar Galactica''
  
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* ''Voyagers!''
  
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* ''Millennium''
  
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* ''Angel''
  
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* The ''Twilight Zone'' ([[2002]])
  
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* and the list goes on...
  
   
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===Other credits===
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A character listed in a piece of background signage, [[Winrich Kolbe (Captain)|Captain Winrich Kolbe]], a space [[captain]] of the [[22nd century]], was named for this director.
  
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Other directing credits include ''CHiPs,'' ''Voyagers!'', [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:x-files:millennium ''Millennium''], ''Angel'', ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', ''24'' and the remake of ''Twilight Zone'' (2002).
   
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==Later years and death==
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==External Links==
  
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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.
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Kolbe died in September of 2012. ([http://www.dga.org/News/DGAMonthly.aspx ''DGA Monthly,'' November 2012]; [http://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/])
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== ''Star Trek'' credits ==
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* {{TNG}}
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** {{e|Where Silence Has Lease}}
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** {{e|Pen Pals}}
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** {{e|Up The Long Ladder}}
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** {{e|Evolution}}
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** {{e|The Bonding}}
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** {{e|Allegiance}}
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** {{e|Galaxy's Child}}
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** {{e|Identity Crisis}}
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** {{e|Darmok}}
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** {{e|The Masterpiece Society}}
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** {{e|Cost of Living}}
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** {{e|Man of the People}}
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** {{e|Birthright, Part I}}
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** {{e|Rightful Heir}}
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** {{e|Thine Own Self}}
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** {{e|All Good Things...}}
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* {{DS9}}
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** {{e|Past Prologue}}
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** {{e|Vortex}}
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** {{e|The Homecoming}}
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** {{e|The Siege}}
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** {{e|Melora}}
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** {{e|Armageddon Game}}
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** {{e|Blood Oath}}
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** {{e|Through the Looking Glass}}
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** {{e|Our Man Bashir}}
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** {{e|Favor the Bold}}
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** {{e|The Sound of Her Voice}}
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** {{e|The Siege of AR-558}}
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** {{e|'Til Death Do Us Part}}
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*{{VOY}}
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** {{e|Caretaker}}
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** {{e|Phage}}
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** {{e|Eye of the Needle}}
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** {{e|Faces}}
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** {{e|Elogium}}
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** {{e|Initiations}}
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** {{e|Resistance}}
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** {{e|Basics, Part I}}
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** {{e|Basics, Part II}}
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** {{e|Remember}}
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** {{e|Scorpion, Part II}}
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** {{e|Hope and Fear}}
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** {{e|Thirty Days}}
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** {{e|The Fight}}
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** {{e|Dragon's Teeth}}
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** {{e|Good Shepherd}}
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** {{e|Drive}}
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** {{e|Repression}}
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* {{ENT}}
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** {{e|Silent Enemy}}
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== ''Star Trek'' interviews ==
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* [[TNG Season 7 DVD]] special feature "The Making of "All Good Things..." Year Seven" ("On Location"), interviewed on {{d|21|March|1994}}
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* [[VOY Season 1 DVD]] special feature "On Location with the [[Kazon]]"
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* "Rick Kolbe - Interpreter for {{e|Darmok}}, ''[[The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine]]'' Vol. 21, pp. 30-35, interviewed by [[Ian Spelling]]
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== External links ==
 
* {{IMDb-link|page=nm0463926}}
  
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* {{wikipedia}}
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* {{bsgwiki}}
   
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Revision as of 23:47, 26 July 2014

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Winrich Kolbe

Winrich Kolbe in 1994

Winrich Kolbe and Denise Crosby

Kolbe with Denise Crosby on the set of "All Good Things...

Winrich "Rick" E. Kolbe (born 1940 - died September 2012, age 71) was a television director, who worked on all four Star Trek spin-off series. A character listed in a piece of background signage in The Next Generation episode "Up The Long Ladder", Captain Winrich Kolbe, was named after him.

Career

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.

Other credits

Other directing credits include CHiPs, Voyagers!, Millennium, Angel, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 24 and the remake of Twilight Zone (2002).

Later years and death

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.

Kolbe died in September of 2012. (DGA Monthly, November 2012; [1])

Star Trek credits

Star Trek interviews

External links

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