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Michael Zelniker is a Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his performance as Red Rodney in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film Bird (1988) and as Doug Alward in The Terry Fox Story (1983), for which he won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.[1]

Michael Zelniker
Born	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Actor, screenwriter, director
Years active	1980s–2010s
Spouse	Dea Lawrence

Early life and education

Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Zelniker studied acting and theatre at Dawson College, Dome Theatre.[2]

Career

Zelniker appeared in the films Pinball Summer (1980), Ticket to Heaven (1981), Heartaches (1981), Bird (1988),[3] Glory Enough for All (1991),[4] Naked Lunch (1991),[5] Queens Logic (1991),[5]Mercenary (1996) and Snide and Prejudice (1997), and made guest appearances in the television series The Littlest Hobo, In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, Profiler, Strong Medicine, The Dead Zone and Millennium.

He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Stuart Bliss, in which he also played the title character.[2] Stuart Bliss was also produced by Zelniker, and won the Northampton Film Festival's Best of Fest Award in 1998.

Zelniker wrote, produced, and directed Falling, which won Indie Fest USA International Film Festival's Best of Festival Award in 2012. In 2013 he began teaching Acting for Film, Chekhov Technique and Performing Shakespeare at the Los Angeles Campus of the New York Film Academy after teaching Acting for the Camera, Acting Technique and Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy from 2004 to 2013.

In 2018, Zelniker became a climate leader with the Climate Reality Project, trained by former Vice President Al Gore. He served as the Co-Chair of Climate Reality's Los Angeles Chapter from 2018 - 2021. He wrote, produced, edited and directed the soon to be released documentary, The Issue with Tissue, a boreal love story about the boreal forest and the Indigenous Peoples who have called it home for thousands of years.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Hog Wild	Pete Crenshaw
1980	Pick-up Summer	Greg
1981	Heartaches	Andy
1981	Ticket to Heaven	Danny
1985	Eleni	Sidney Cohn
1986	Touch and Go	McDonald
1988	Bird	Red Rodney
1991	Queens Logic	Marty
1991	Naked Lunch	Martin
1995	Night Canvas	William Bannister
1996	Mercenary	Alan Bailey
1997	Snide and Prejudice	Joseph Goebbels
1998	Stuart Bliss	Stuart Bliss
2000	Nostradamus	John Doe
2001	After Image	Rye
2003	Killer Rats	Ernst
2005	Nature Unleashed: Earthquake	Viktor
2012	Falling	Writer/Producer/Director

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	The Terry Fox Story	Doug Alward	Television film
1983	A Case of Libel	David
1986	Crossings	Jean-Jacques Metzger	2 episodes
1988	Glory Enough for All	James Collip	Television film
1989	The Neon Empire	Burt Stone
1990	In the Heat of the Night	Paul Borden	Episode: "Bubba's Baby"
1992	Air Time	Rickey	Television film
1993	Bodies of Evidence	Ozzie Hanson	Episode: "Trial by Fire"
1993–1996	Murder, She Wrote	Various roles	3 episodes
1996	Within the Rock	Archer	Television film
1996	Millennium	Galen Calloway	Episode: "Kingdom Come"
1997	Chicago Hope	Gerry Clanahan	Episode: "Guns 'n' Roses"
1998	Profiler	Robert Carter	Episode: "Dying to Live"
2002	For the People	Dr. Bushnell	Episode: "Our Own"
2002	Tornado Warning	Steve	Television film
2003	Strong Medicine	Dr. Janovitch	Episode: "Vaccinations"
2003	Veritas: The Quest	Isaac	Episode: "The Name of God"
2005	The Inside	James Havens	Episode: "Pre-Filer"
2007	The Dead Zone	Philip	Episode: "Switch"

References

External links

• Michael Zelniker at IMDb

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