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Revision as of 01:49, 23 November 2007
Lee David Zlotoff is a producer, director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the TV series MacGyver. He started as a screenwriter writing for Hill Street Blues in 1981. He then became a producer of Remington Steele in 1982.
Zlotoff created MacGyver, which ran on ABC between 1985 and 1992 and was sold throughout the world. He then produced The Man from Snowy River TV series (Australian title: "Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River" — American title: "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga"). The series was loosely based on the Banjo Patterson poem The Man from Snowy River
He also wrote and directed the 1996 film The Spitfire Grill, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
Zlotoff attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.[1]
He also contributes to Make magazine[2].
References
- ^ Rosemary Harty, "MacGyver Meets the Johnnies", The [St. John's] College Magazine, winter 2005.
- ^ [1]Make page on Lee David Zlotoff