Films, Screenplays, Plays, and Novels by Leigh Podgorski
Michael Wise
Michael Wise (Cherokee/Caddo) seriously took up acting as a career in 1979 when he worked on The New Maverick in Old Tucson, Arizona as an extra. Since then he has worked on the soap operas General Hospital, Santa Barbara and Falconcrest. Television shows he has appeared on are The Amanda Show and Arrest and Trial. He has done voice-overs on Peter Pan and the Pirates as Great Big Chief Little Panther, Captain Planet as Richard Yellowfeather, and has narrated the documentary Wolf Nation concerning the reintroduction of the wolf into Yellowstone Park and the Arapaho Wolf Ceremony.
You can see Michael’s work in such films as Roadhouse, Next of Kin and Fever Lake. His theatre credits include The Rainmaker, Vieux Carre, Cyrano de Bergerac and We Are Still Here. Michael is currently involved as a representative for Native American talent at the Screen Actors Guild, is a member of SAG and AFTRA and has organized a monthly meeting at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum called the Native American Film and Television Alliance, a group dedicated to the advancement of American Indians in film and television. Currently he is writing and directing short films for film festival consideration. Michael is represented by the Wallis Agency.
We Are Still Here
Now Available on DVD
The new documentary featuring Katherine Siva Saubel and the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California.
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