Name Phil McCordic Role Actor | ||
Awards Gemini Award for Best Pre-School Program or Series, Gemini Award for Best Interactive Nominations Gemini Award for Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series Similar People Patty Sullivan, Joseph Motiki, Sid Bobb, Ali Eisner | ||
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Phil McCordic is a Canadian actor, voice actor, television host, director, producer, and writer who is best known as a host, voice actor, director, producer, and writer of children's programming for YTV, CBC Television, and TVOntario. He is currently the host of TVOntario's science education series Science Max.
A graduate of the University of Windsor, he worked in youth theatre as part of a company educating high school students on the work of William Shakespeare, and with the science education team Mad Science. He joined TVO Kids in 1999 as a "program jockey" for Crawlspace. By 2010 he was the senior producer of CBC Television's Kids CBC programming block, as well as voicing the character of Drumheller the Dinosaur. Alongside his colleagues at the Kids CBC team, he was a Gemini Award winner in 2009 for Best Pre-School Program or Series.