W. D. Hogan began directing at a very young age while attending performing arts schools in Louisville and Atlanta. He entered the professional film business at nineteen on the WGBH feature film BIG TIME with Adrian Pasdar and Mia Sara. Following an education at Emerson College in Boston he moved west to Los Angeles.

Hogan got his first break storyboarding the Paul S. Anderson feature "MORTAL KOMBAT." He went on to illustrate hundreds of commercials and dozens of features for directors Sydney Pollack, Cameron Crowe, Doug Limon, Scott Hicks, Joel Silver, Stephen Herek, the Wachowski Brothers, E. Elias Merhige, Jaume Collet-Serra and John Dowdle. His storyboards for director Chris Robinson led to the opportunity to direct music videos for Robinson’s ROBOT FILMS.

Hogan’s first feature was “SOLDIER OF GOD,” a story set against the Crusades about a Knight Templar and Muslim assassin who travel across the desert looking to complete their missions. The film is a meditation on religion, death and the struggle for truth. It attended the respected SAN SEBASTIAN film festival before winning BEST PICTURE at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Film Festival and A.F.I. Dallas. The film was released theatrically in 2006 and is now on DVD.

Hogan followed up by directing episodic television on a new FOX drama called "FASHION HOUSE." The series starred Bo Derek, Morgan Fairchild, Tippi Hedron, Donna Feldman, Natalie Martinez and Robert Buckley. A total of sixty-five episodes were shot over five months. The gruelling schedule allowed for one-hour episodes to be shown nightly without repeats in the fall of 2007.

In late 2009, Hogan directed “BEHEMOTH,” a classic-style creature-feature for the SyFy Channel/Universal Studios that premieres in January 2011. The film stars Ed Quinn, William B. Davis, Pascale Hutton, Jessica Parker Kennedy and Cindy Busby, and follows the locals of a small mountain town whose very existence is threatened when an ancient creature comes to life!

Hogan recently wrapped the feature film “EARTH’S FINAL HOURS” for SyFy/Universal, a film about the catastrophic consequences of the Earth ceasing to rotate. It stars Robert Knepper, Julia Benson, Bruce Davison, Michael Kopsa, Roark Critchlow, David Richmond Peck, Cameron Bright and Julia Maxwell. The film will be released in late 2011.

He is repped at WME by Eric Reid and managed by Jeff Graup.

Hogan lives in Los Angeles.