Michael Boland

Q: When did Michael Boland die?

Michael Boland died on October 5, 2025.

Q: How old was Michael Boland when they died?

Michael Boland was 75 years old at the time of death.

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.

His noted credits include the 1987 hockey documentary film The Boys on the Bus.

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.