Michael Kennedy (director)

Michael Kennedy
Born	1954 Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Occupation	film director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer, composer
Spouse	Carrie Gleason-Kennedy (1982 - present)

Michael Kennedy (born 1954) is a Canadian film and television director, writer and composer born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Career

Michael has directed 14 feature-length films or TV movies and over 125 television episodes including the entire first season of Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Besides the pilot of Little Mosque, he also directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of My Life and a Movie, North/South, The Good Germany, Mental Block, Listen Missy, Screech Owls, P.R., Taking the Falls, and Jets. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed comedy series The Kids in the Hall, and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada.

Michael has directed feature films in many countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the US, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Man Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and nine others in Canada. He also wrote the screenplays for three of the feature films he directed.

Michael lives with his wife, Carrie, and their three children in a suburb of Misissauga, Canada, but they try to spend their summers at their cottage on Prince Edward Island, Michael's home province.

Credits

Director

• She's the Mayor (2 episodes, 2011)
• What's Up Warthogs! (6 episodes, 2011)
• Little Mosque on the Prairie (37 episodes, 2007-2011)
• Pure Pwnage (2 episodes, 2010)
• The Good Company (1 episode, 2010)
• Lost and Found (2009)
• The Smart Woman Survival Guide (3 episodes, 2007)
• This Space for Rent (2 episodes, 2007)
• North/South (5 episodes, 2006)
• G-Spot (6 episodes, 2006)
• Metropia (10 episodes, 2005-2006)
• Mental Block (9 episodes, 2003-2004)
• Made in Canada (13 episodes, 1999-2003)
• Emily of New Moon (6 episodes, 1998-2002)
• Blackfly (7 episodes, 2001-2002)
• Rideau Hall (2 episodes, 2002)
• Murder Among Friends (2001) (TV)
• Screech Owls (2 episodes, 2001)
• P.R. (7 episodes, 2000-2001)
• Wind at My Back (2 episodes, 2000)
• The City (1 episode, 2000)
• Little Men (1 episode, 1999)
• The Hoop Life (1999) TV series (unknown episodes)
• So Weird (2 episodes, 1999)
• JETS - Leben am Limit (1999) (TV)
• Kalkuliertes Risiko (1997) (TV)
• Joe's Wedding (1996)
• Robin of Locksley (1996) (TV)
• Hostile Force (1996) (TV)
• Hard Evidence (1995)
• The Possession of Michael D. (1995) (TV)
• Taking the Falls (2 episodes, 1995)
• Broken Lullaby (1994) (TV)
• Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
• Talons of the Eagle (1992)
• The Swordsman (1992)
• The Kids in the Hall (9 episodes, 1991-1992)
• One Man Out (1989)
• Caribe (1987)
• Jim and Muggins Tour Toronto

Writer

• JETS - Leben am Limit (1 episode, 1999)
• The Swordsman (1992)
• One Man Out (1989)
• Degrassi Junior High (1 episode, 1988)
• Caribe (1987) (uncredited)

Actor

• These Foolish Things (1977) as Wilson

Cinematographer

• Those Foolish Things (1977)

Composer

• Lost and Found (2009)

Awards/Nominations

He has received two Directors Guild of Canada Awards (from five nominations), a Directors Guild of America Award nomination, two Best Director Gemini nominations, three wins from nine nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards, and Best Director at the Canadian Music Video Awards.

External links

• IMDB
• Directors Guild of Canada
• New York Times

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Name	Kennedy, Michael
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Date of birth	1954
Place of birth	Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
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