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name: "Michael Gates"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-gates"
fi1m_id: "michael-gates"
tmdb_id: 2182974
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:22:35.576506+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 Gates

## Identity

Michael Gates

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-gates
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-gates
- **TMDB ID:** 2182974
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2182974

Actor.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2182974

## Biography

Michael Gates is a Canadian historian and author. He worked as curator for Parks Canada in Dawson City, Yukon, and was directly involved in the 1978 discovery of the Dawson Film Find, a large collection of early nitrate films unearthed during construction work.

Gates has researched and written extensively on the Klondike Gold Rush era and the history of film in the region. He appears as himself in the documentary *Dawson City: Frozen Time* (2016), on which he also served as a researcher, and has published the book *Hollywood in the Klondike: Dawson City’s Great Film Find*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, yukon-news.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dawson City: Frozen Time* (2017), Fi1m 77, as Himself — [page](https://film.one/film/dawson-city-frozen-time.md)

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