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name: "Michael Donovan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-donovan-35032"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "17 March 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:10:51.665755+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Michael Donovan

Producer. Born 17 March 1953 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 17 March 1953, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- **Also known as:** Michael Patrick Donovan
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16728625, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233035/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35032

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Bowling for Columbine*](https://film.one/film/bowling-for-columbine.md) (72)

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## Biography

Michael Patrick Donovan is a Canadian film producer, executive and screenwriter. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he co-founded Salter Street Films with his brother Paul Donovan in 1983. The company produced the long-running satirical series *This Hour Has 22 Minutes* and the series *Made in Canada*.

Salter Street Films was acquired by Alliance Atlantis in 2001. Donovan later founded Halifax Film Company in 2004, which merged in 2006 to form DHX Media (later rebranded WildBrain), where he served as CEO and executive chair. He produced the 2002 documentary *Bowling for Columbine*, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was producer and co-writer of the 2007 film *Shake Hands with the Devil*. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, prnewswire.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bowling for Columbine* (2002), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bowling-for-columbine.md)

## Also known for

- *Shake Hands with the Devil* (2007), Producer, Writer

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