Azzopardi, Mario 1950-

PERSONAL

Born in 1950, in Malta.

Addresses:

Agent—Agency for the Performing Arts, 405 South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Course Management, 15159 Greenleaf St., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.

Career:

Director and writer. Also a poet and literature teacher.

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award nomination, best direction in a dramatic program or series, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1986, for Night Heat; Gemini Award nomination, best direction in a dramatic or comedy series, 1995, for Robocop; Craft Award nomination, outstanding achievement in direction— feature film, Directors Guild of Canada, 2003, for Savage Messiah.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Gagga (also known as The Cage), 1971.

Deadline, 1979.

Nowhere to Hide, New Century Vista, 1987.

Divided Loyalties, 1989.

Savage Messiah (also known as Moise: L'affaire roch theriault), Christal Films, 2002.

Television Director; Movies:

Die Einzige zeugin, 1995.

Bone Daddy (also known as Palmer's Bones and L'affaire Palmer), HBO, 1998.

Profile of a Director, PBS, 1998.

Freefall (also known as Angst ueber den wolken), Fox Family Channel, 1999.

The Time Shifters (also known as Thrill Seekers), TBS, 1999.

On Hostile Ground, TBS, 2000.

Loves Music, Loves to Dance (also known as Mary Higgins Clark's "Loves Music, Loves to Dance"), Independent Television, 2001.

Stiletto Dance, HBO, 2001.

The Stork Derby (also known as Course a la cigogne and La course aux enfant), Lifetime, 2002.

Still Small Voices, Lifetime, 2006.

The Wives He Forgot, Lifetime, 2006.

Lie and Crimes, Lifetime, 2007.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

The Stork Derby (also known as Course a la cigogne and La course aux enfant), Lifetime, 2002.

Television Director; Pilots:

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, syndicated, 1987.

E.N.G., Lifetime, 1989.

Stargate SG-1, Showtime and syndicated, 1997.

Total Recall 2070 (also known as Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams), Showtime, 1998.

Also directed Counterstrike.

Television Director; Specials:

Police File, ABC, 1994.

Television Director; Episodic:

The Littlest Hobo, CTV, 1979.

Night Heat, CBS, 1985-89.

Wiseguy, ABC, 1987.

"The Abyss," Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, syndicated, 1987.

"Shattered," Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, syndicated, 1987.

Booker (also known as Booker, P.I.), Fox, 1989.

Top Cops, 1989.

"Fairest of Them All," In the Heat of the Night, NBC, 1989.

"Lessons Learned," In the Heat of the Night, NBC, 1990.

The Flash, NBC, 1990.

E.N.G., Lifetime, 1990.

Sweating Bullets (also known as Tropical Heat), 1991.

"Survival Instinct," Counterstrike (also known as Force de frappe), 1991.

"Sanctuary," In the Heat of the Night, NBC, 1992.

Human Target, ABC, 1992.

Secret Service, 1992.

Highlander (also known as Highlander: The Series), syndicated, 1992.

"Marked Man," Matrix, USA Network, 1993.

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, syndicated, 1993-95.

Viper, NBC, 1994.

Robocop (also known as RoboCop: The Series), syndicated, 1994.

M.A.N.T.I.S., ABC, 1994.

"Fever," Sliders, Fox, 1995.

"Summer of Love," Sliders, Fox, 1995.

The Outer Limits, Showtime and syndicated, 1995-2001.

"Man in the Mist," Poltergeist: The Legacy, Showtime, 1996.

Two, syndicated, 1996.

"Man in the Mist," Poltergeist: The Legacy, Showtime, 1996.

F/X: The Series, syndicated, 1996.

Dead Man's Gun, 1997.

"Blood Lines," Stargate SG-1, Showtime and syndicated, 1997.

"Brief Candle," Stargate SG-1, Showtime and syndicated, 1997.

"Children of the Gods," Stargate SG-1, Showtime and syndicated, 1997.

"Singularity," Stargate SG-1, Showtime and syndicated, 1997.

"Cor-ai," Stargate SG-1, Showtime and syndicated, 1998.

Total Recall 2070 (also known as Total Recall: The Series), Showtime, 1999.

"Contact," Dinotopia (also known as "Dinotopia": The Series), 2002.

"Car Wars," Dinotopia (also known as "Dinotopia": The Series), 2003.

Jeremiah, Showtime, 2004.

"Thirty Eight Minutes," Stargate: Atlantis (also known as La porte d'Atlantis and Stargate: Atlantis), Sci-Fi Channel, 2004.

"Suspicion," Stargate: Atlantis (also known as La porte d'Atlantis and Stargate: Atlantis), Sci-Fi Channel, 2004.

"Hot Zone," Stargate: Atlantis (also known as La porte d'Atlantis and Stargate: Atlantis), Sci-Fi Channel, 2004.

"Letters from Pegasus," Stargate: Atlantis (also known as La porte d'Atlantis and Stargate: Atlantis), Sci-Fi Channel, 2005.

"Open Your Eyes," Angela's Eyes, Lifetime, 2006.

Also directed Beyond Reality.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Ferraro Benedetti, "Lucky," The Littlest Hobo, CTV, 1984.

Quintaro, "Freedom Dead," Night Heat, 1987.

The count, "Double Eagle," Highlander (also known as Highlander: The Series), 1995.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Gagga (also known as The Cage), 1971.

Deadline, 1979.

Television Movies:

Die Einzige zeugin, 1995.

Other:

Naked as Water (poetry), translated from Maltese by Grazio Falzon, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman), 1997.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

World Literature Today, winter, 1997, p. 197.