Michael Greenburg

Michael Greenburg has spent more than ten thousand days on film and television sets, which should theoretically have taught him patience.

Then he started playing golf.

Mike is a writer, director, and producer whose career includes MacGyver, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and NHL Original Programming. He began producing with the 1980 NBC miniseries The Golden Moment and went on to produce more than 500 prime-time television episodes.

From 1986 to 1992, Mike produced MacGyver for ABC, helping turn the series into an international cultural phenomenon. He later produced two MacGyver television movies filmed in England.

In 1997, Mike and Richard Dean Anderson’s Gekko Film Corp partnered with MGM to produce Stargate SG-1, one of SyFy’s highest-rated series. Mike also produced Stargate Atlantis: Rising, the movie pilot that launched the spin-off series. His personal favorite remains the wonderfully strange limited-series Western Legend.

Mike later served as Executive Producer for Score Productions in Canada and went on to direct and produce NHL Original Programming alongside his brother Ross. His sports credits include the Emmy-nominated The Road to the NHL Winter Classic, NHL Revealed, Wired, and Quest for the Stanley Cup.

His film and television credits also include Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, My Strange Uncle, In the Eye of a Stranger, The Vegas Strip War, and Dixie: Changing Habits.

After a career spent solving production problems and keeping complicated television shows moving forward, Mike eventually encountered something even less predictable:

his golf swing.

Some problems, apparently, cannot be fixed in post.