His writing career started in the late 80s, with his first one hour TV CTV drama, "A Viking's Carol", followed by a feature length CTV movie, "Kefi's Garage", staring Gordon Tootoosis ("Legends of the Fall", "North of 60"). His most recent television credits include director and co-writer of "The Kilburns", a one-hour CBC dramatic series pilot featuring Donnelly Rhodes ("DaVinci's Inquest", "Danger Bay") and Linda Darlow ("Newhart", "The Commish", "The Amy Fischer Story").  He wrote and directed a one hour TV drama/comedy adopted from his own novel, "Of Lions and Lambs", with plans to shoot a veterinary TV drama for PBS and CBC in Feb, 2002. He has written over 70 scripts for the small and/or big screen, many of which are based on his own novels.

He is co-writer of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your IQ", a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and spice fully-written manual for body, mind and spirit development (McMillian/Apple Books). He has 13 novels to his credit, including "Of Lions and Lambs" (1998, man vs. demon set against the backdrop of the stand-up comedy world), "The Telenkovian Experiment" (1995, biomedical/political thriller set in 1930 Ukraine and contemporary Russia), "Revolutionary Blues" (1997, Faustian Western set against backdrop of the Yaqui Indian revolt in 1926 Mexico) and "Professor Jack" (1998, political fiction Quixotic tale centering around the JFK assassination). His "Heart of the Healer" series (1998-2000), written in collaboration with Daydream Productions/PCCN in Hot Springs, Arkansas, focuses on an intelligent, empathetic and poetic physician-scientist who can cross the life-death line, a 'talent' which he uses in the service of highly unofficial underground anti-terrorist organizations. "All About Him by Her" is a dramatic-satirical manual of the male-female question as told by prototypical humans to ETs visiting our humble, and colorful, planet. "Raising Caesar" (2001) focuses on an attempt of a disillusioned Nazi scientist to infiltrate the Reich's film industry and use it against Hitler. "Promethian Fire" (1997) is an adventure-romance about an American expatriate Hippie-Classical Music conductor/composer and his ex-Hippie, ex-wife caught up in the 1967 brutal Military Junta that took over Greece in the dead of night, un-noticed and un-challenged by the West. "Babylonian Retribution" (1998) is an archeological thriller focusing around an ancient, and brutally-exterminated, community of Ultra-Enlightened Scholar-Monks re-awakened by a NY Times journalist on his Arabian honeymoon, led by a ghost that reminds him of a past lifetime he never knew he had.

Dr. Politis currently lives in Kamloops, BC, splitting his time between doing veterinary relief work in NY and tending to his literary and movie-making life in the West.  He has granted himself the HBARP degree, human being, aspiring Renaissance person.

SELECTED CREDITS:

One Hour Dramas/Comedies

• “Mindless Love”, episode in CHUM / CityTV/BRAVO anthology “13 Stories About Love”, Writer/Producer.  2005.  First aired Nov 6, 2005.  
• “Tesla”, first episode in “Bombastic Biographies” TV series. Writer, Director, Producer, Actor. Regional CBC airing, June, 26 2005.
• "Of Lions and Lambs" (for CBC/PBS), Director, Writer, Producer, first prime time airing Feb. 2003 (CBC).
• "The Dream", pilot for "The Kilburns", (Donnelly Rhodes/Linda Darlow), Director/Co-Writer, aired Dec. 2000 (CBC). Head Writer on series, currently in active development.
• "A Viking's Carol", Director/Writer, aired Dec, 1989 (CTV).

Feaure Length Dramas/Comedies

• "Mindstorm", Richard Pepin dir./Michael Moriarty, Michael Ironside, (2000), Story editor.
• "Antibody", Richard Pepin dir., (2001), Story editor.
• "Kefi's Garage', Gordon Tootoosis, (North of 60). Director/Producer/Writer, aired Aug, 1992 (CTV).
• "American Dream #137", 1996, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer. (based on Fringe Play produced 1995).
• "Greys", 1996, Writer/Lead actor.
• Solicited Westerns, "Barker's Bite", 1999, "Liars Thieves and Trainrobbers", 2001, Writer/Co-writer.
• “Mentoring”, feature length drama/comedy for Global TV, Director, Writer, Actor, Producer.   To be aired Winter/Spring 2007.

Half-Hour Dramas/Comedies

• “Twilight Cowboy”, comedy/horror Western, (1998). Writer/Actor/Co-Producer.
• “In Search of Grafittiman”, mockumentary, (1998). Writer/Actor/Co-Producer.
• “Hector and Lucille” (2006).   Co-Producer/co-Writer/Actor.

Spec Episodic Scripts (agent submitted)

DaVinci's Inquest, Gideon's Crossing, NYPD Blue, Outer Limits, Law and Order, Law and Order SW, Dead Man's Gun, Cold Squad.

Fiction (parital list of 20 novels and 29 scripts)

• "Revolutionary Blues" Fact-based Faustian metaphysical Western set around 1926 Yaqui Indian revolt in the mystical and rugged Bacette Mountains of Mexico.  Script and novel.
• "Of Lions and Lambs" Contemporary drama set in stand up comedy world.  Script and novel.
• "Telenkovian Experiment" Medical/psychological and political drama set in 1930s Ukrainian hollocaust and contemporary Russia, a bizzare, practical and humane ‘eat your enemy’ survival experiment that goes very wrong.  Script and novel.
• "Professor Jack" Quixotic political fiction about an old coot in contemporary New Mexican desert claiming to be JFK, kidnapped in ‘63 and planning political comeback of the Century with aid of a cynical ‘grunge kid’ on the run from the law and the mob.  Script and novel. 
• "Heart of the Healer", Psychological/metaphysical medical-espionage thrillers about middle-aged  physician-turned-writer/spy who encounters ghosts of patients/people who changed his life from land of the living and the dead, not being able to tell the difference .   Acquires ability to cross the life-death line, pulled into solving global problems bigger than he ever imagined when he was ‘sane and sensible’. Three novels in series.  Script and novels.
• "Babylonian Retribution", Psychological archeological thriller set in Middle East, with karmic payback. Script and novel.
• "Promethian Fire", Romantic adventure about ex-patriate American hippie classical music conductor reunited with his now-conservative ex-wife set in 1967 Greece as Junta turns birthplace of Democracy into Police State.  Novel.
• “Henry and the Wolf Doctor”, Contemporary Native and Multicultural Western Canadian veterinary story, “All Creatures Great and Small” with a very contemporary edge. Novel and Script (in advanced development).
• "Raising Caesar", Historical fiction about the Nazi media industry, Jewish prisoner is converted into genius in attempt to infiltrate and transform Hitler’s propaganda machinery.   Novel.
• “Colors of Revolution” and “Hessians” Historical fiction about African Americans and German Immigrants/Mercenaries in the American Revolution, who played major roles on both sides of the conflict.  Novels and script.
• “Wagon Wheeled”, Old West murder mystery from viewpoint of young girl on wagon train.  Novel.
• “Grass Wars” Contemporary murder mystery based around Korean War vet arrested for not mowing his lawn in violation of ‘community beauty’ laws.  Novel.
• “Kolokotronis” Fact-based fiction about life and times of the ‘Pancho Villa’ and ‘George Washington’ of the Greek Revolution of 1820s.  Script.
• “Ghost Agent” Comedy about market-moron male writer fakes his own death, then is in inadvertently given sex change operation and new face and ‘reborn’ as agent to promote ‘himself’ in absentia.  Script.
• “Leroy and the Roach” Upper crust ET female life form takes on body of cockroach and teams up with down-and-out male Black American in Harlem to foil plot of planet Mediocre to spread “Dull Out Virus” throughout the Universe.  Script.
• “War Whore”  American female socialist freed from jail to Germany to spy for the US, gets pregnant with Hitler’s child, gets caught behind lines at Russian Front.  Novel.
• “Marvelous Encounters”  40 min ‘what if’ fact-based dramas about famous scientists (Einstein, Curie, Rutherford, GW Carver, Mendell and Ramon y Cajal) at critical points in their lives.  Scripts.
• “Scared Sh-less, Inc”  Tough love program for troubled ‘ex-Mafia princess’ teen goes very wrong.  Script.
• “Fetal Distractions”  Norwegian prostitute hired to sell her fetus turns the deal down once pregnant by the scientist who contracted and impregnated her (based on real story).  Script.

Non-Fiction/Satire (print)

• "All About Him by Her", War of the sexes novel, contracted author (PCCN/Daydream Prod Hot Springs, Ark).
• "Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your IQ", McMllan/Apple, 1998, Co-author.
• “Surviving the Avion Flu”, medical/social satire.

Radio

• CFBX Classical, Folk, Multiple long form mockumentary radio plays/commercials and interview programs (2003-2005).
• CFCH  Host/Writer, long form classical, literary and social commentary programmes (2005-7)

Related training

• Ph.D. (medical physiology, 1978) with over 50 original biomedical research publications.
• D. V. M. (Western College of Veterinary Medicine).
• Acupuncture.
• 15 years of university biomedical and psychological lecturing.