Michael Winters (actor)
Michael Winters is an American actor of stage and television. He is best known for playing uptight town selectman Taylor Doose on the WB series Gilmore Girls. He played the role for all seven seasons of the comedy-drama and reprised it for the 2016 revival .
On stage, Winters appeared on Broadway in Wrong Mountain. He spent seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Company, including roles as King Lear and Falstaff. He has also played Prospero with the Seattle Shakespeare Company. He previously spent 10 years with the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has performed with several other theater companies in Western USA.
His other screen credits include recurring roles on Days of Our Lives and Ally McBeal, and guest roles on Friends, The Nanny, Cheers, Frasier, and Law & Order.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theater
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1983 | Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch | Marian Theater at Allan Hancock College |
| 1988 | God's Country | Various | ACT |
| 1988 | Principia Scriptoriae | Hans Einhorn | ACT |
| 1989 | Red Noses | Monselet / Bigod | ACT |
| 1989 | Happenstance | Various | ACT |
| 1989 | Woman in Mind | Bill | ACT |
| 1990 | ' | ACT | |
| 1990 | Hapgood | Paul Blair | ACT |
| 1991 | ' | Intiman Theatre | |
| 1991 | Our Country's Good | Capt. Jeremy Campbell / Midshipman Harry Brewer / John Arscott | ACT |
| 1991 | Halcyon Days | Raper | ACT |
| 1992 | ' | Center Theater Group | |
| 1992 | Shadowlands | C. S. Lewis | ACT |
| 1993 | Life During Wartime | Various | ACT |
| 1994 | Gray's Anatomy | Phineas Wingfield | ACT |
| 1994 | Man of the Moment | Douglas Beechey | ACT |
| 1995 | Handing Down the Names | Ensemble | ACT |
| 1996 | Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Val Skolsky | ACT |
| 2000 | Wrong Mountain | Guy Halperin | Broadway |
| 2000 | Talley's Folly | Matt Friedman | ACT |
| 2001 | ' | Tobias | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| 2002 | Dirty Blonde | Various | ACT |
| 2003 | Absurd Person Singular | Ronald Brewster-Wright | ACT |
| 2004 | Alki | King of the Haints / Ensemble | ACT |
| 2004 | Enchanted April | Frederick Arnott | ACT |
| 2005 | Three Sisters | Ivan Romanich Chebutykin | Intiman Theatre |
| 2005 | Candida | The Malibu Stage Company | |
| 2006 | Richard III | Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham | Intiman Theatre |
| 2006 | Heartbreak House | Capt. Shotover | Intiman Theatre |
| 2007 | Stuff Happens | Dick Cheney | ACT |
| 2007 | Heartbreak House | Capt. Shotover | Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
| 2008 | ' | Mr. Hermann van Daan | Intiman Theatre |
| 2008 | Agamemnon | The Getty Villa | |
| 2008 | Becky's New Car | Walter Flood | ACT |
| 2008–09 | You Can't Take It With You | Grandpa | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| 2009 | ' | Prospero | Seattle Shakespeare Company |
| 2010 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2010 | ' | Old Gobbo / Ensemble | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2010 | Throne of Blood | Old General / Ensemble | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2011 | Ten Chimneys | Sydney Greenstreet | Arizona Theatre Company |
| 2011 | Henry IV, Part 2 | Sir John Falstaf | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2011 | Love's Labour's Lost | Holofernes | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2012 | ' | Various | PlayMakers Repertory Company |
| 2012 | Inspecting Carol | Sidney Carlton | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| 2013 | King Lear | Lear | Oregon Shakespeare Fesetival |
| 2013 | ' | James De Woolf | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2014 | ' | Walt | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| 2014 | ' | Sir John Falstaff | Colorado Shakespeare Festival |
| 2014 | ' | Gonzalo | Colorado Shakespeare Festival |
| 2015 | ' | Various | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| 2015 | All the Way | Sen. Richard Russell | Seattle Repertory Theatre |
| 2015 | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2015 | ' | Father Dantès | Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| 2016 | Straight White Men | Ed | The Studio Theatre |
| 2017 | Evidence of Things Unseen | Jack | Taproot Theatre Company |