Rob Stanton Bowman (/หboสmษn/; born May 15, 1960) is an American director. He grew up around film and television production and developed an interest in the field because of the work of his father, director Chuck Bowman. Bowman is a prolific director for television and has contributed to series such as Star Trek: The Next Generationย and The X-Files, for which he received four consecutive Emmy nominations as a producer. He was an executive producer and director for the comedy-drama Castle. Bowman has directed four feature films: Airborne, The X-Files, Reign of Fire, and Elektra. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Stanton Bowman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.