Career
Born and raised just outside New York City, in Mamaroneck, New York and attending Mamaroneck High School where he was heavily involved in music and a bit in drama, Michael Lange first developed a taste for drama in college, where he served as both an actor and director in a number of productions. After college, he started his own regional theatre in Teaneck, New Jersey, and was also active in a number of musical groups. He produced and directed several plays at the theatre before moving onto advertising.
He then worked at an advertising company, Cunningham & Walsh, for five years as a producer, before he moved to Creamer Advertising in New York for which he served as head of television and radio production.
In 1980, he quit after eight years in the advertising business and moved to California aspiring to become a film and television director Lange"s first job was on The Fall Guy in 1982 as a post production assistant and after a year he was promoted to second unit director, in which role he shot almost thirty episodes (second unit only) for the show.
He then moved on to Riptide and later, in his self-described leap to "quality television", Life Goes On in 1993. Since then, he has garnered directorial credits from two hundred and forty television episodes, including amongst many others The O.C., Beverly Hills, 90210, The Larry Sanders Show, Northern Exposure, Eureka, The Pretender, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Eli Stone Brothers & Sisters, One Tree Hill, Dirty Sexy Money, Dawson"s Creek, Point Pleasant, Mission Match, Everwood, Diagnosis: Murder, Jake and the Fatman, "The Royals (television Series)", and Greek.
He has directed one feature film, Intern, and the Disney Channel television movie Jumping Ship.
In late 2010 he directed a television Movie for American Broadcasting Company Family entitled "My Future Boyfriend". He has recently been working on the American Broadcasting Company Family series, "Greek" as a Company-Executive Producer/Director. Additionally, he"s the Company-Executive Producer/Director on Lifetime"s "Drop Dead Diva".
He"s about to begin working on a new American Broadcasting Company Family series called "Jane By Design" as Company-Executive Producer/Director.
Having been in a number of bands growing up, Lange"s other business is in music Flashbang is in development on several projects involving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A one-hour drama, tentatively titled "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives", a documentary/reality show about the dogs of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives called "At The Frontline: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives", in partnership with Master in Public Health Productions, and a reality show about Search and Rescue dogs. Personal life
Lange is Jewish, a background that has given him inspiration for Kosher Christmas Carols, a collection of musical parodies written by Peter Gorin and himself, and also landed him a minor role in an episode of The O.C. in which he played a Rabbi.