Biography
Manuel Hector "Manny" Coto was an American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has experience in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. In 1990, Brian Helgeland and Coto sold a script, The Ticking Man, for $1 million, but the film was never made. He wrote and directed an episode of Tales from the Crypt and also wrote an episode for and produced The Outer Limits when it was revived on Showtime in 1995. He was given the cha...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
2016
as Self
Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovere...
Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen
2016
as Self
In celebration of Star Trek's 50th anniversary, this two-hour documentary explores this enduring franchise by offering viewers an unprecedented, candi...
Zenon: The Zequel
2001
Director
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince ...
The Other Me
2000
Director
When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely ...
Star Kid
1997
Director, Writer
Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from...
Hostile Intent
1997
Writer
Paint-ball playing computer geeks who invent a computer chip which can keep the government or any agency from gaining access to computer files are tar...
Dr. Giggles
1992
Director, Writer
In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. A...
Cover-Up
1991
Director
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of poli...
Playroom
1990
Director
An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.
Jack in the Box
1989
Director
A young policeman's partner gets killed while investigating strange phenomena in a ramshackle house. As the surviving policeman sets out to unravel th...