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
- Live Before the Letter as Self
2000
- CyberWorld ... (Co-Producer)
1985
- We Are Born of Stars ... (Writer)
1982
- First Winter ... (Executive Producer)
- Hail Columbia! ... (Writer)
1980
- Bravery in the Field ... (Executive Producer)
- Challenger: An Industrial Romance ... (Executive Producer)
- Nose and Tina ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- Twice Upon a Time ... (Producer)
- Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels ... (Executive Producer)
1978
- The Red Dress ... (Executive Producer)
- So Long To Run ... (Producer)
- Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka ... (Executive Producer)
1977
- Henry Ford's America ... (Executive Producer)
- Bekevar Jubilee ... (Executive Producer)
- Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention ... (Executive Producer)
- Hold the Ketchup ... (Executive Producer)
- Strangers at the Door ... (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
- Little White Crimes ... (Producer)
- Stravinsky ... (Director)
- The Baymen ... (Producer)
1964
- The Hutterites ... (Producer)
- Nobody Waved Goodbye ... (Producer)
- Above the Horizon ... (Director)
1963
- 21-87 as (Archive audio)
- Toronto Jazz ... (Producer)
1962
- Lonely Boy ... (Director)
- The Living Machine ... (Director)
1961
- Festival in Puerto Rico ... (Director)
- The Days of Whisky Gap ... (Producer)
1960
- Universe ... (Director)
- I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling ... (Producer)
- The Cars in Your Life ... (Producer)
1959
- Glenn Gould: On the Record ... (Producer)
- The End of the Line ... (Producer)
- Glenn Gould: Off the Record ... (Director)
- Emergency Ward ... (Producer)
- The Back-breaking Leaf ... (Producer)
1958
- Pilgrimage ... (Producer)
- The Days Before Christmas ... (Editor)
- Blood and Fire ... (Producer)
- Memory of Summer ... (Producer)
- Police ... (Producer)
- Country Threshing ... (Producer)
- A Foreign Language ... (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)