Roman Kroitor
Born: 1926-12-12 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died: 2012-09-16
Known For: Production
Biography
Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system. He was also the original inspiration for The Force. His prodigious output garnered numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, three Cannes Film Festival awards, and two Oscar nominations. Roman Boghdan Kroitor was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, to Ukrainian immigrants Peter and Tatiana (Shewchuk), both of whom were teachers. Peter died when Roman was four; Tatiana moved the family to Winnipeg and continued teaching. Roman attended the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1951 with a Master of Arts in Philosophy.
Filmography
2006
- Rebels with a Camera as Self
2000
- CyberWorld ... (Co-Producer)
1991
- The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max ... (Director)
1990
- Echoes of the Sun ... (Director)
1988
- Beavers ... (Associate Producer)
1985
- We Are Born of Stars ... (Writer)
1983
- Laughter in My Soul ... (Executive Producer)
1982
- Hail Columbia! ... (Writer)
- First Winter ... (Executive Producer)
1980
- Challenger: An Industrial Romance ... (Executive Producer)
- Nose and Tina ... (Executive Producer)
- Bravery in the Field ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- Twice Upon a Time ... (Producer)
- Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels ... (Executive Producer)
1978
- Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka ... (Executive Producer)
- So Long To Run ... (Producer)
- The Red Dress ... (Executive Producer)
1977
- Bekevar Jubilee ... (Executive Producer)
- Strangers at the Door ... (Producer)
- Hold the Ketchup ... (Executive Producer)
- Henry Ford's America ... (Executive Producer)
- Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention ... (Executive Producer)
1974
- Man Belongs to the Earth ... (Producer)
- Circus World ... (Producer)
1971
- North of Superior ... (Producer)
1970
- Tiger Child ... (Original Music Composer)
1967
- In the Labyrinth ... (Director)
1966
- The Baymen ... (Producer)
- Little White Crimes ... (Producer)
- Stravinsky ... (Director)
1964
- Above the Horizon ... (Director)
- Nobody Waved Goodbye ... (Producer)
- The Hutterites ... (Producer)
1963
- Toronto Jazz ... (Producer)
- 21-87 as (Archive audio)
1962
- Lonely Boy ... (Director)
- The Living Machine ... (Director)
1961
- Festival in Puerto Rico ... (Director)
- The Days of Whisky Gap ... (Producer)
1960
- I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling ... (Producer)
- Universe ... (Director)
- The Cars in Your Life ... (Producer)
1959
- The End of the Line ... (Producer)
- The Back-breaking Leaf ... (Producer)
- Glenn Gould: Off the Record ... (Director)
- Glenn Gould: On the Record ... (Producer)
- Emergency Ward ... (Producer)
1958
- Police ... (Producer)
- Memory of Summer ... (Producer)
- The Days Before Christmas ... (Editor)
- Pilgrimage ... (Producer)
- Country Threshing ... (Producer)
- A Foreign Language ... (Producer)
- Blood and Fire ... (Producer)
1957
- City of Gold ... (Writer)
- It's a Crime ... (Story)
1953
- Rescue Party ... (Director)
- Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman ... (Director)
1952
- Age of the Beaver ... (Writer)