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Michael Zelniker is a Canadian born 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."Terry Fox Story wins best picture Genie". The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1984.
He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Stuart Bliss, in which he also played the title character. 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 Issue with Tissue - a boreal love story. a documentary about the little known, largely untold story of the boreal forest and the Indigenous Peoples who call it home.
The Issue with Tissue held its world premiere at Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival on September 18, 2022, where it was recognized with their Audience Choice Runner-up Award. Playing in theaters in Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Marin County and Quebec City and at film festivals across North America, The Issue with Tissue qualified for major awards' consideration, including being nominated for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Film Awards Best Documentary Feature.
Filmography
Film
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!class="unsortable" 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 Viktor 2012 Falling Writer/Producer/Editor/Director 2022 The Issue with Tissue - a boreal love story Writer/Producer/Editor/Director
Television
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 Isaac Episode: "The Name of God" 2005 The Inside James Havens Episode: "Pre-Filer" 2007 The Dead Zone Philip Episode: "Switch"
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Categories: Best Supporting Actor Genie And Canadian Screen Award Winners, Canadian Male Film Actors, Canadian Male Television Actors, Canadian Male Screenwriters, Canadian Male Stage Actors, Dawson College Alumni, Male Actors From Montreal, Living People, Year Of Birth Missing, Screenwriters From Montreal
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