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)
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
- Nose and Tina ... (Executive Producer)
- Bravery in the Field ... (Executive Producer)
- Challenger: An Industrial Romance ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- Twice Upon a Time ... (Producer)
- Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels ... (Executive Producer)
1978
- The Red Dress ... (Executive Producer)
- Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka ... (Executive Producer)
- So Long To Run ... (Producer)
1977
- Strangers at the Door ... (Producer)
- Bekevar Jubilee ... (Executive Producer)
- Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention ... (Executive Producer)
- Henry Ford's America ... (Executive Producer)
- Hold the Ketchup ... (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)
- Stravinsky ... (Director)
- Little White Crimes ... (Producer)
1964
- The Hutterites ... (Producer)
- Nobody Waved Goodbye ... (Producer)
- Above the Horizon ... (Director)
1963
- 21-87 as (Archive audio)
- Toronto Jazz ... (Producer)
1962
- The Living Machine ... (Director)
- Lonely Boy ... (Director)
1961
- The Days of Whisky Gap ... (Producer)
- Festival in Puerto Rico ... (Director)
1960
- Universe ... (Director)
- I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling ... (Producer)
- The Cars in Your Life ... (Producer)
1959
- The End of the Line ... (Producer)
- The Back-breaking Leaf ... (Producer)
- Glenn Gould: On the Record ... (Producer)
- Glenn Gould: Off the Record ... (Director)
- Emergency Ward ... (Producer)
1958
- Country Threshing ... (Producer)
- Pilgrimage ... (Producer)
- The Days Before Christmas ... (Editor)
- Memory of Summer ... (Producer)
- Police ... (Producer)
- A Foreign Language ... (Producer)
- Blood and Fire ... (Producer)
1957
- City of Gold ... (Writer)
- It's a Crime ... (Story)
1953
- Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman ... (Director)
- Rescue Party ... (Director)
1952
- Age of the Beaver ... (Writer)