Robin Spry

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Robin Spry
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma materOxford University
London School of Economics
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Years active1965 - 2005
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Robin Spry (October 25, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Canadian film director, producer and writer.[1] He was perhaps best known for his documentary films Action: The October Crisis of 1970 and Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis about Quebec's October Crisis. His 1969 film Prologue won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.

Biography

Robin Spry was born in Toronto, Ontario to Canadian broadcast pioneer and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation founder Graham Spry CC, and economic historian Irene Spry OC.

After studies at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Spry began his filmmaking career in 1964 at the National Film Board in Montreal, earning a place on its payroll in 1965. He built a reputation as a documentarian engaged with the issues of the day, with films on abortion, youth rebellion, and contemporary politics. His 1969 film Prologue documented the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, weaving narrative with archival footage. His Canadian Film Award-winning documentary Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1973) used a similar approach to tell the story of the kidnapping of British diplomat James Richard Cross and the murder of Pierre Laporte.[2] While at the NFB, Spry acted as a producer, director, writer, cinematographer, film editor and actor, appearing in several colleagues' films, including Denys Arcand's Québec, Duplessis et après" (1972), in which he read sections of the 1839 Durham Report. He also starred in the 1981 hostage film Kings and Desperate Men.[3]

In 1978, Spry left the NFB. He did some work for the CBC, then founded his own production company, Telescene Film Group Productions, through which he produced many TV movies and series. Upon its bankruptcy in 2000, he worked with the Montreal production company CinéGroupe.

The first season of his last production, Charlie Jade, was dedicated to his memory, as mentioned in the credits of the final episode, as was Air Crash Investigation's episode "Mistaken Identity".[citation needed]

Personal life and death

Spry was divorced from journalist Carmel Dumas; they had two children. He died in a car crash in Montreal on March 28, 2005.

Filmography

Awards

Flowers on a One-way Street (1967)[15]

Ride for Your Life (1967)[16]

Prologue (1969)[17]

Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1974)[18]

One Man (1977)[19]

Drying Up the Streets (1978)

Obsessed (1987)

Straight for the Heart (1988)

An Imaginary Tale (1990)

Hiroshima (1995)

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Robin Spry". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Action: The October Crisis of 1970". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Décès du cinéaste canadien Robin Spry". Le Devoir (in French). Montreal. 29 March 2005. Retrieved 9 December 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."You Don't Back Down". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Miner". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Level 4350". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Little White Crimes". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Illegal Abortion". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Change in the Maritimes". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ride for Your Life". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Flowers on a One-Way Street". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Downhill". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Face". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."One Man". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Flowers on a One-Way Street". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ride for Your Life". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Prologue". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Action: The October Crisis of 1970". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."One Man". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2023.

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