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.
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Born | Augsburg, Germany | March 20, 1948
Occupation(s) | Director, writer, producer |
Years active | 1972–present |
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.