{{Short description|Canadian screenwriter, producer and director}} {{Infobox person | name = Chris Haddock | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia | alma_mater = Lord Byng Secondary School | occupation = Director, writer, producer, and showrunner | spouse = | years_active = }} [[File:A booth at the Ovaltine Cafe.jpg|thumb|A booth at the Ovaltine Cafe on East Hastings Street, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, 2008, among those used regularly by characters in ''Da Vinci’s Inquest''.]] [[File:2016 366 83 Girls, girls, girls! (25924060201).jpg|thumb|The Penthouse Club (est. 1947) on Seymour Street, Vancouver, 2016, featured as the 'Chick-a-Dee', the headquarters of Jimmy Reardon, in ''Intelligence''.]]
'''Chris Haddock''' is a Canadian screenwriter, producer and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the CBC Television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', ''Da Vinci's City Hall'', ''Intelligence'' and ''The Romeo Section''.<ref>"The Spies who loved them", ''Toronto Star'', 11 October 2015.</ref> He has won 14 Gemini Awards as a writer, producer and/or director and received another 15 nominations - most of them for ''Da Vinci's Inquest''.
==Career== Haddock began as a street performer, but he later focused his creative energies into screenwriting for television.<ref>[http://www.wgc.ca/magazine/articles/haddock.html WGC Magazine: "Chris Haddock Calls His Own Tune" by Katherine Montagu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314035204/http://www.wgc.ca/magazine/articles/haddock.html |date=2016-03-14 }} Winter 2004</ref> One of his earliest efforts in writing was for the popular series, ''MacGyver'', where he also served as the story editor and executive story editor.
He founded his production company Haddock Entertainment in 1997, and is best known for his Vancouver-based television drama creations ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' (1998–2005), ''Da Vinci's City Hall'' (2005–2006), ''Intelligence'' (2006–2007), and ''The Romeo Section'' (2015–2016), which frequently feature notable locations around the city.<ref name=GeorgiaStraight2009-04-08> {{cite news |url = https://www.straight.com/article-213295/location-local-eateries |title = Film productions eat up Vancouver restaurants as shooting locations |work = Georgia Straight |author = Tara Lee |date = 2009-04-08 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190225103932/https://www.straight.com/article-213295/location-local-eateries |archive-date = 2019-02-25 |access-date = 2019-02-22 |url-status = live |quote = The legendary Ovaltine Cafe on East Hastings Street has been used "oodles and oodles of times", Dayal says, because of its distinctive old-time-diner feel. Da Vinci's Inquest used to film there weekly, and Dayal used it in ''I, Robot'' as a coffee hangout for Will Smith's Det. Del Spooner. }} </ref> He also served as writer/co-executive producer on the Martin Scorsese HBO production ''Boardwalk Empire'', and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for that show.
Haddock's stage play ''Helen Lawrence'' was staged internationally in 2014, including stints at the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival, Toronto's Canadian Stage, Munich and Vancouver.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/theatre-reviews/helen-lawrence-groundbreaking-and-old-fashioned-all-at-once/article17589706/ "Helen Lawrence: groundbreaking and old-fashioned, all at once" by J Kelly Nestruck], ''The Globe and Mail'', Winter 2004</ref>
==Filmography== Haddock's creative credits include:<ref name="WGN">[http://wgnsuperstation.trb.com/entertainment/syn/davinci/wgncable-davinci-about,0,1067523.story?coll=wgncable-davinci-1 WGN-Da Vinci's Inquest] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116122022/http://wgnsuperstation.trb.com/entertainment/syn/davinci/wgncable-davinci-about%2C0%2C1067523.story?coll=wgncable-davinci-1 |date=November 16, 2006 }} Accessed December 21, 2006. </ref> * ''MacGyver'', developed the recurring character Lisa Woodman (played by Mayim Bialik) in 1989 * ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', a CBC series - creator, writer, executive producer * ''Da Vinci's City Hall'', a CBC series - creator, writer, executive producer * ''The Handler'', a CBS series - creator, writer, executive producer * ''Intelligence'', a CBC series - creator, writer, executive producer * ''The Life'', a CTV television movie - co-writer, executive producer * ''The Romeo Section'', a CBC series - creator, writer, executive producer
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==External links== *[http://haddockentertainment.com/index.php?nid=6&page_id=44& Haddock Entertainment Profile] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061114075842/http://www.movietome.com/movietome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-80483/Chris_Haddock/ Movietome] *{{IMDb name|0352709}}
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