Film directors from Edmonton

The list Film directors from Edmonton includes Rae Dawn Chong, Jill Hennessy, Tommy Chong, Bruce McCulloch and Arthur Hiller. The list consists of 37 members.

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Provincial capital city in Alberta, Canada

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Rae Dawn Chong

Canadian-American actress

Overview: Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress. She made her big screen debut appearing in the 1978 musical drama film Stony Island, and in 1981 starred in the fantasy film Quest ...

Date of birth: 28 February 1961

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Canadian actresses of Chinese descent 41T

Best Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 46T

Best Actress Genie Award winners 31T
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Jill Hennessy

Canadian actress

Overview: Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and musician. She is most known for her roles on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played prosecutor Claire ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Paolo Mastropietro (Married)

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Actresses of Irish descent 597T

21st-century Canadian women singers 544T

21st-century women singers 8,493T
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Tommy Chong

Canadian-American actor and musician

Overview: Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American actor, writer, director, musician, cannabis rights activist and comedian. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Shelby Chong (Married)

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Comedians from Alberta 21T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

The Masked Singer (American TV series) contestants 55T
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Bruce McCulloch

Canadian comedian, actor, writer

Overview: Bruce Ian McCulloch (born May 12, 1961) is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, musician and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, i ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Tracy Ryan (Married)

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Comedians from Alberta 21T

Canadian male television writers 115T

21st-century Canadian comedians 121T
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Arthur Hiller

Canadian film director

Overview: Arthur Hiller, OC (November 22, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Canadian-American television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career. He began his career directing tel ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1923

Date of death: 17 August 2016

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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2016 deaths 9,448T

Jewish film people 46T

Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II 122T
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Cody Lightning

American actor

Overview: Cody Lightning (born August 8, 1986) is a Cree Aboriginal Canadian actor.

Date of birth: 8 August 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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21st-century First Nations people 229T

21st-century Canadian screenwriters 577T

Canadian male screenwriters 532T
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Georgina Lightning

Canadian film director and writer

Overview: Georgina Lightning is a First Nations film director, screenwriter, and actress. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she is an enrolled member of the Samson Cree Nation. She was raised off-reserve, near the Samson ...

Date of birth: 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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21st-century First Nations writers 88T

21st-century Canadian women writers 944T

First Nations women writers 57T
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Anne Wheeler

Canadian film director

Overview: Anne Wheeler, OC, (born September 23, 1946) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer, and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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Women documentary filmmakers 402T

21st-century Canadian screenwriters 166T

20th-century Canadian screenwriters 136T
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Grace Glowicki

Canadian actress and filmmaker

Overview: Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta. She is most noted for directing and starring in the 2019 film Tito, which was a shortlisted finalist for the John Dunning Best ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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21st-century Canadian screenwriters 550T

21st-century Canadian women writers 1,403T

Canadian web series actresses 32T
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Best Buds

Canadian actor and comedian

Overview: Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, musician and activist. He is known for his role/inspiration in the marijuana industry, his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong ...

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ken Kuramoto, Tommy Chong

Cast: Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong, Paris Chong, Gilbran Chong, Precious Chong, Kevin Derksen

Producer: Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong

A pot-advocate comic loses his wife to a Chicano Latin dance instructor.

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Cheech & Chong 8T

Comedians from Edmonton 12T

Screenwriters from Alberta 41T
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John Fawcett

Canadian film and television director

Overview: John Fawcett (born March 5, 1968) is a Canadian director, writer, and producer of film and television. Alongside Graeme Manson, he co-created and is a director for the award-winning BBC America and Space ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Showrunners 389T

Canadian Film Centre alumni 107T

Horror film directors 488T
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Carl Bessai

Film director

Overview: Carl Bessai (born 1966 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Bessai studied at OCAD University and at York University in Toronto graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree ...

Date of birth: 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian screenwriters 166T

Canadian male screenwriters 186T

Writers from Edmonton 116T
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Loretta Todd

Canadian film director

Overview: Loretta Sarah Todd is a Canadian Indigenous film director. Her first dramatic feature, Monkey Beach, based on the iconic novel by Eden Robinson, recently launched to strong audience and critical response ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

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Sean Horlor

Canadian poet

Overview: Sean Horlor (born January 11, 1981) is a Canadian poet, actor, television producer, columnist and blogger. He is the author of Made Beautiful by Use (2007), published by Signature Editions, and co-host ...

Date of birth: 11 January 1981

Age: 44

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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LGBT film producers 82T

Canadian LGBT poets 114T

Canadian gay actors 83T
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Heather Taylor

Canadian writer, and director

Overview: Heather Taylor (born in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian writer, and director. Taylor studied music, acting and writing in western Canada and London, England.

Date of birth: 9 September 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian screenwriters 557T

21st-century Canadian women writers 1,423T

Writers from Edmonton 138T
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Ron E. Scott

Filmmaker (b. 1967)

Overview: Ron E. Scott (born December 7, 1967) is a Canadian-Metis showrunner and director. He is the founder of Prairie Dog Film + Television, an independent production company involved in creating scripted series ...

Date of birth: 7 December 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

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Writers from Edmonton 116T

Canadian Métis people 172T

Canadian television writers 273T
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Darrell Wasyk

Canadian film director

Overview: Darrell Wasyk (born 18 May 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film director.

Date of birth: 18 May 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian screenwriters 166T

20th-century Canadian screenwriters 136T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T
18.

Mark Twitchell

Canadian man convicted of murder

Overview: Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 for killing John Brian "Johnny" Altinger. His trial attracted particular media attention because ...

Date of birth: 4 July 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Crime in Edmonton 6T

Canadian male criminals 94T

21st-century Canadian criminals 60T
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Brad Fraser

Canadian playwright (born 1959)

Overview: Brad Fraser (born June 28, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and int ...

Date of birth: 28 June 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
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Michael Mabbott

Canadian film and television director and writer

Overview: Michael Mabbott is a Canadian film and television director and writer. He is best known for his debut feature film as a director, The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, which won the Toronto Intern ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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