Information AboutRobin Spry |
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PROFILE Robin Spry was born in Toronto , Ontario on October 25 , 1939, to Canadian broadcast pioneer Graham Spry and economic historian Irene Spry . After studies at , 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. 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), presented at the Cannes Film Festival ; ''Drying Up the Streets'' (1978); and ''Suzanne'' (1980). Spry died in an early-morning Montreal Road Accident on March 28, 2005, leaving behind son Jeremy and daughter Zoé, whom he had had with journalist and ex-wife Carmel Dumas. EXTERNAL LINKS |