Lee David Zlotoff

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. [Rosemary Harty, [http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/user/MAG_W05_article12.aspx#macgyver "MacGyver Meets the Johnnies"] , "The [St. John's] College Magazine", winter 2005.]

He also contributes to Make magazine [ [http://www.makezine.com/pub/au/Lee_D_Zlotoff] Make page on Lee David Zlotoff] .

At the 2008 Maker Faire, Zlotoff announced a big budget MacGyver movie was something he was interested in [ [http://gizmodo.com/386877/holy-crap-macgyver-blockbuster-film-coming] Gizmodo article] . Also Zlotoff explained he had full control of the movie after obtaining the rights several years ago. There is still no confirmation of Richard Dean Anderson reprising his role.

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* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957453/ Internet Movie Database entry on Lee David Zlotoff]