George Mendeluk
George Mendeluk | |
---|---|
Born | Augsburg, Germany | March 20, 1948
Occupation(s) | Director, writer, producer |
Years active | 1972–present |
George Mendeluk (Ukrainian: Джордж Менделюк) (born March 20, 1948, in Augsburg, Bavaria) is a German-born Canadian film director, television director and writer of Ukrainian descent.
His television credits as director include Miami Vice, Night Heat, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Young Riders, Counterstrike, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Poltergeist: The Legacy, Highlander: The Series, Highlander: The Raven, Queen of Swords, First Wave, Relic Hunter, Romeo!, Odyssey 5, Deck the Halls (2005) and Judicial Indiscretion (2007).[1]
Mendeluk directed the 2017 epic romantic-drama film Bitter Harvest. after receiving Richard Bachynsky Hoovers script he wrote being the original and final draft of the screenplay depicting Holodomor, the man-made Ukrainian Genocidal Soviet engineered Famine Stalin waged in 1932-1933 starving millions to death.
Filmography
[edit]- 1972 - The Merry Wives of Tobias Rouke
- 1979 - Stone Cold Dead
- 1980 - The Kidnapping of the President
- 1985 - Doin' Time
- 1986 - Meatballs III: Summer Job
- 2005 - Deck the Halls
- 2017 - Bitter Harvest
References
[edit]- ^ "Michael Shanks Online: Interview with George Mendeluk". Archived from the original on 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
External links
[edit]- 1948 births
- Canadian comedy film directors
- Canadian film producers
- Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
- Canadian television directors
- Canadian television writers
- German emigrants to Canada
- Canadian male television writers
- Living people
- Canadian male screenwriters
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- Canadian film director stubs