Norman Jewison
Born: 1926-07-21 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2024-01-20
Known For: Directing
Biography
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (July 21, 1926 - January 20, 2024) was a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Moonstruck (1987), The Hurricane (1999) and The Statement (2003). Jewison addressed important social and political issues throughout his directing and producing career, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences.
Filmography
2024
- Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand as Self
2022
- Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story as Self - Interviewee
- Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen as self
2021
2019
- Hal as Self
- Sid & Judy as Self (voice)
- Style and Substance: Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby
2014
- I Am Steve McQueen as Self
2012
- Pablo as Self
2008
- Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth as Self
- Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's as Self
- A Special Kind of Love as Self
- A Love Story of Today as Self
- Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound as Self
2007
- Private Screenings: Norman Jewison as Director
2006
2005
2004
- Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing as Self
- Tell Them Who You Are as Self
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self - Executive Producer (voice)
2003
- The Statement ... (Producer)
2002
- Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Self (uncredited)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
2001
- Dinner with Friends ... (Director)
- Walter and Henry ... (Executive Producer)
2000
1999
- The Hurricane ... (Producer)
- Funny Is Money ... (Director)
1998
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn as Self (uncredited)
- Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
1996
- Bogus ... (Producer)
- The Stupids as TV Director
1995
- Picture Windows ... (Director)
- Dance Me Outside ... (Executive Producer)
- Picture Windows: Soir Bleu ... (Director)
- Picture Windows: Language of the Heart ... (Executive Producer)
- Picture Windows: Armed Response ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Only You ... (Producer)
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- Picture Windows: Song of Songs ... (Executive Producer)
1993
- Geronimo ... (Executive Producer)
1991
- Other People's Money ... (Director)
- Highway 61 ... (Thanks)
1990
- Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self
1989
- In Country ... (Director)
- The January Man ... (Producer)
1987
- Moonstruck ... (Producer)
1985
- Agnes of God ... (Director)
1984
- A Soldier's Story ... (Director)
- Iceman ... (Producer)
1982
- Best Friends ... (Director)
1980
- The Dogs of War ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- ...And Justice for All ... (Director)
1978
- F.I.S.T. ... (Director)
1975
- Rollerball ... (Director)
- From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle
1974
- Billy Two Hats ... (Producer)
1973
- Jesus Christ Superstar as Man (voice) (uncredited)
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Fiddler on the Roof ... (Director)
- Norman Jewison, Film Maker as Self
1970
- The Landlord as Wedding Guest in Opening Shot (uncredited)
1969
- Gaily, Gaily ... (Director)
1968
- The Thomas Crown Affair ... (Director)
1967
- In the Heat of the Night ... (Director)
1966
- The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! ... (Director)
1965
- The Cincinnati Kid ... (Director)
- The Art of Love ... (Director)
1964
- Send Me No Flowers ... (Director)
1963
- The Thrill of It All ... (Director)
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 40 Pounds of Trouble ... (Director)
- The Judy Garland Show ... (Producer)
- The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe ... (Director)
1961
- The Million Dollar Incident ... (Director)
1960
- The Fabulous Fifties ... (Director)
1959
- The Big Party ... (Director)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1949
- Canadian Pacific as Joe Podge (uncredited)