Robin Spry

Robin Spry

Robin Spry (October 25, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Canadian film director and television producer and screenwriter. Spry 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. Robin Spry was born in Toronto, Ontario to Canadian broadcast pioneer Graham Spry and economic historian Irene Spry. 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 and remaining there until stepping down in 1978. While at the NFB Spry built a reputation as a documentarist engaged with the issues of the day, with films on abortion, youth rebellion, and contemporary politics. His Prologue documented the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, weaving narrative with archival footage to become, in 1969, the first Canadian film to appear at the Venice Film Festival. 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. Spry also tried his hand at other aspects of the film trade, acting as a producer, filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer and film editor, and appearing in several colleagues' films, including Denys Arcand's Québec, Duplessis et après" (1972), reading out sections of the 1837 Durham Report. Spry starred in the 1981 hostage film Kings and Desperate Men. In the mid-1970s Spry left the NFB to focus on production work, founding Telescene and then, upon its bankruptcy in 2000, continuing to work with other production firms in Montreal. Among the films he produced were Léa Pool's À corps perdu (1988), André Forcier's Une histoire inventée (1990), and John Hamilton's The Myth of the Male Orgasm (1993); he was also responsible for a number of television series, such as The Lost World. Other notable works included the 1995 mini-series, Hiroshima, about the events leading up to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which won a Canadian Gemini Award and was nominated for an American Emmy, as well as earlier films One Man (1977), Drying Up the Streets (1978), and Suzanne (1980). Spry died in an early-morning road accident on March 28, 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, leaving behind a son, Jeremy, and a daughter, Zoé, whom he had fathered by journalist Carmel Dumas (from whom he was divorced at the time of his death). The first season of 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". Source: Article "Robin Spry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Titel: Robin Spry
  • Popularitet: 0.355
  • Kendt for: Directing
  • Fødselsdag: 1939-10-25
  • Fødselssted: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Robin Spry Film

  • 1981
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    Kings and Desperate Men

    Kings and Desperate Men

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  • 1968
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    The Ernie Game

    The Ernie Game

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  • 1988
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    Malarek

    Malarek

    4 1988 HD

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  • 1992
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    A Cry in the Night

    A Cry in the Night

    3.8 1992 HD

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  • 1992
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    A Cry in the Night

    A Cry in the Night

    3.8 1992 HD

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  • 1998
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    The Windsor Protocol

    The Windsor Protocol

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  • 1973
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    Action : The October Crisis of 1970

    Action : The October Crisis of 1970

    7.5 1973 HD

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  • 1988
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    À corps perdu

    À corps perdu

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  • 1992
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    A Cry in the Night

    A Cry in the Night

    3.8 1992 HD

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  • 1987
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    Keeping Track

    Keeping Track

    5.2 1987 HD

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  • 1967
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    Ride for Your Life

    Ride for Your Life

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  • 1973
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    Action : The October Crisis of 1970

    Action : The October Crisis of 1970

    7.5 1973 HD

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  • 1966
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    Little White Crimes

    Little White Crimes

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  • 1978
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    Drying Up the Streets

    Drying Up the Streets

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2003
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    Student Seduction

    Student Seduction

    6.2 2003 HD

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  • 1988
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    Hitting Home

    Hitting Home

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  • 1988
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    Hitting Home

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  • 1977
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    One Man

    One Man

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  • 1973
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    Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis

    Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis

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    Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis

    Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis

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  • 1999
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    Nightmare Man

    Nightmare Man

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  • 1970
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    Prologue

    Prologue

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    Prologue

    Prologue

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  • 1981
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    Suzanne

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  • 1981
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    Suzanne

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  • 1965
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    You Don't Back Down

    You Don't Back Down

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  • 1987
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    Keeping Track

    Keeping Track

    5.2 1987 HD

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  • 1966
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    Miner

    Miner

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    Miner

    Miner

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  • 1965
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    You Don't Back Down

    You Don't Back Down

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  • 1966
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    Change in the Maritimes

    Change in the Maritimes

    1 1966 HD

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    Change in the Maritimes

    Change in the Maritimes

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1977
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    One Man

    One Man

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  • 1967
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    Illegal Abortion

    Illegal Abortion

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    Illegal Abortion

    Illegal Abortion

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  • 1967
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    Flowers on a One Way Street

    Flowers on a One Way Street

    1 1967 HD

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    Flowers on a One Way Street

    Flowers on a One Way Street

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1988
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    Hitting Home

    Hitting Home

    4 1988 HD

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  • 1970
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    Downhill

    Downhill

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Downhill

    Downhill

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1991
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    Une histoire inventée

    Une histoire inventée

    4.2 1991 HD

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  • 1973
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    Action : The October Crisis of 1970

    Action : The October Crisis of 1970

    7.5 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

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