J. Miles Dale (born 1961) is a Canadian producer and director of film and television. He is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film The Shape of Water, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony. Dale is a regular collaborator of fellow director Guillermo del Toro and formed a creative partnership with Netflix. Dale was born in Toronto, Ontario, to British-born Canadian jazz musician Jimmy Dale. Dale attended Bayview Glen School from 1965 to 1968. In 1968, his father moved the family to Hollywood, where he worked as a music director for The Smothers Brothers Show, The Andy Williams Show, and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. The family returned to Toronto in the mid-1970s, and Miles graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute. He attended the University of Toronto for a year and later transferred to the University of British Columbia before dropping out to join the film industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Miles Dale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2025Frankenstein — Producer, Unit Production Manager
• 2023The Last Voyage of the Demeter — Thanks
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities — Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
• 2021Antlers — Producer
• 2021Nightmare Alley — Producer
• Sex/Life — Executive Producer
• 2019Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark — Producer, Unit Production Manager
• 2017The Shape of Water — Producer
• Shadowhunters — Executive Producer, Director
• 2014Endless Love — Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
• The Strain — Director
• 2013Carrie — Executive Producer
• 2013Iris — Producer
• 2013Mama — Producer
• 2012The Vow — Executive Producer
• 2011The Thing — Executive Producer
• 2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager
• 2009Love Happens — Executive Producer
• 2009Pontypool — Executive Producer
• 2008Flash of Genius — Executive Producer
• 'Til Death Do Us Part — Director
• 2007Talk to Me — Program Director, Second Unit Director, Executive Producer
• 2006Hollywoodland — Unit Production Manager, Second Unit Director, Executive Producer
• 2004Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — Co-Producer
• 2004The Skulls III — Director, Producer
• 2003Blizzard — Additional reindeer voices, Producer
• Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye — Director
• 2002The Skulls II — Co-Producer
• 2001Harvard Man — Co-Producer
• 2001Wolf Girl — Producer, Second Unit Director
• Andromeda — Director
• 2000Sideshow — Producer
• Earth: Final Conflict — Director
• RoboCop: The Series — Producer
• The Comedy Factory — Associate Producer
• Fury — Producer
• Mockingbird — Producer
• The Boy in the Iron Box — Producer

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2025Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson — Self - Producer
• 2010The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' — Self
• The Oscars — Self