Michael Sinelnikoff

Michael Sinelnikoff

Born: August 1, 1928
Michael Sinelnikoff is an actor, director and writer. Among his many non-acting credits are: first Director of Quebec's International "Cirque du Soleil" (1984).

Movies for Michael Sinelnikoff...

The Velveteen Rabbit
Title: The Velveteen Rabbit
Character: Henry
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
A lonely boy wins over his distant father and strict grandmother with help from a brave velveteen rabbit whose one wish is to become a real rabbit someday
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300
Title: 300
Character: Elder Councilman
Released: March 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
Title: The Greatest Game Ever Played
Character: Lord Bullock
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
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Silent Night
Title: Silent Night
Character: Old Fritz Vincken (voice)
Released: December 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
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The Lost World: Underground
Title: The Lost World: Underground
Character: Dr. Arthur Summerlee
Released: July 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Further adventures of the explorers gang of the TV series, encountering ape men, dinosaurs and a tribe of albino underground dwellers.
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Chasing Holden
Title: Chasing Holden
Character: Dean Dewitt
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Neil Lawrence is sent to a boarding school by his father. During the first days he meets T.J. who he falls in love with. After being assigned a paper on Holden Caulfield - the main character in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" - Neil decides to go on a journey to meet Salinger, who he feels has played a huge role in his life. Neil & T.J. take off on a journey to New York City. A journey that leads to more then they both ever could have imagined - and changes both their lives forever.
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Promise Her Anything
Title: Promise Her Anything
Character: Jeremiah Putter
Released: June 11, 1999
Type: Movie
A quaint small town that hasn't paid taxes since World War II draws the attention of an ambitious tax inspector in this comedy starring Billy Zane and Patrick Bergin.
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Title: The Lost World
Character: Professor Arthur Summerlee
Released: April 3, 1999
Type: TV
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Summerlee
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A group of unlikely allies are assembled to go on an expedition deep within the Amazon forest in search of new discoveries.
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Time at the Top
Title: Time at the Top
Character: Mr. Reynolds
Released: January 17, 1999
Type: Movie
14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building, it transports her from Philadelphia of 1998 back to the same place in 1881. There she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and succeed in changing both the past and the future.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Summerlee
Released: October 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A scientist discovers dinosaurs on a remote plateau in Mongolia.
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Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Title: Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Character: Henry Armitage
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
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Voices
Title: Voices
Character: Sir Charles Devlin
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: Movie
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.
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Mon amie Max
Title: Mon amie Max
Character: Professeur du Conservatoire
Released: November 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Title: Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Character: Conference Doctor
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
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The Final Heist
Title: The Final Heist
Character: Mark Thomas
Released: October 24, 1991
Type: Movie
David King is an art thief who has retired to devote his time to his daughter on whom he dotes. He hasn't counted, however, on a mysterious gang who don't believe he is ready for retirement and who kidnap his daughter Gillian. If he doesn't do one more heist for them Gillian will be murdered.
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If Looks Could Kill
Title: If Looks Could Kill
Character: Haywood
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. He is beseiged by both the good guys and the bad guys. British Intelligence outfits him with a series of James-Bond-like gizmos, and Steranko sends more would-be assassins after him. Can Michael stop the evil Steranko's plans for European domination?
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Cursed
Title: Cursed
Character: Dr. R. Roberts
Released: April 5, 1990
Type: Movie
When a gargoyle falls off a church during a storm, a scientist and his assistant take it back to their lab, where they are doing genetic experiments. However, the gargoyle is possessed by an evil spirit and starts to interfere in their experiments.
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Mindfield
Title: Mindfield
Character: Judge
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius. When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius’ criminal prosecutor raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating in a shocking, stadium-sized confrontation.
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Day One
Title: Day One
Character: Lord Rutherford
Released: May 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
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Criminal Law
Title: Criminal Law
Character: Professor Clemens
Released: April 28, 1989
Type: Movie
A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
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Shades of Love: Tangerine Taxi
Title: Shades of Love: Tangerine Taxi
Character: Bookish Man
Released: August 18, 1988
Type: Movie
An odd cab driver learns that a research scientist is in dire need of funding and reveals himself to be an eccentric philanthropist in disguise. Happiness ensues.
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C.A.T. Squad
Title: C.A.T. Squad
Character: Sir Cyril Sharpe
Released: July 27, 1986
Type: Movie
When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, is brought in to stop the killers.
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Spearfield's Daughter
Title: Spearfield's Daughter
Character: Dr. Hynd
Released: May 25, 1986
Type: Movie
The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.