Lee David Zlotoff is a producer, director and screenwriter best known as the creator of MacGyver. He started as a screenwriter writing for Hill Street Blues in 1981. He then became a producer of Remington Steele in 1982.
Zlotoff created MacGyver which ran on the ABC between 1985 and 1992 and was sold throughout the world. He then produced a TV series called Snowy River: the McGregor Story on the Family Channel. It was loosely based on the Banjo Patterson poem The Man from Snowy River.
Zlotoff wrote and directed the 1996 film The Spitfire Grill which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.