Daniel Petrie
Born: 1920-11-26 in Glace Bay, Canada
Died: 2004-08-22
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 - August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and movie director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne (née Campbell) and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. One of his most famous credits was 1961's A Raisin in the Sun, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed Buster and Billie (1974), the Academy Award-nominated Resurrection (1980), Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) and Cocoon: The Return (1988). He directed well-known television movies such as Sybil and Eleanor and Franklin, and produced a 1999 remake of Inherit the Wind. His films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts (such as 1978's The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall), and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder (Square Dance) and Kiefer Sutherland (The Bay Boy). Petrie died of cancer at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his sons, Daniel and Donald, who are both well-known writers/directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Petrie, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2001
- Wild Iris ... (Director)
- Walter and Henry ... (Director)
1999
- Inherit the Wind ... (Director)
1998
- Monday After the Miracle ... (Director)
1997
- The Assistant ... (Director)
1996
- Calm at Sunset ... (Producer)
1995
- Kissinger and Nixon ... (Director)
1994
- Lassie ... (Director)
- The Story of Lassie as Self
1992
- A Town Torn Apart ... (Director)
1991
- Mark Twain and Me ... (Producer)
1989
- My Name Is Bill W. ... (Producer)
1988
- Cocoon: The Return ... (Director)
- Rocket Gibraltar ... (Director)
1987
- Square Dance ... (Producer)
1986
- Half a Lifetime ... (Director)
1985
- Into the Night as Kalijak Director
- The Execution of Raymond Graham ... (Director)
1984
- The Dollmaker ... (Director)
- The Bay Boy ... (Director)
1982
- Six Pack ... (Director)
1981
- Fort Apache, the Bronx ... (Director)
1980
- Resurrection ... (Director)
1978
- The Betsy ... (Director)
1977
- The Quinns ... (Director)
- Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years ... (Director)
1976
- Sybil ... (Director)
- Eleanor and Franklin ... (Director)
- Lifeguard ... (Director)
- Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking ... (Director)
1975
- Returning Home ... (Director)
1974
- The Gun and the Pulpit ... (Director)
- Mousey ... (Director)
- Buster and Billie ... (Director)
1973
- The Neptune Factor ... (Director)
- Trouble Comes to Town ... (Director)
1972
- The Waltons
- Banyon ... (Director)
- Hec Ramsey ... (Director)
- Moon of the Wolf ... (Director)
- The Century Turns ... (Director)
1971
- McMillan & Wife ... (Director)
- The Man and the City ... (Director)
- The City ... (Director)
- A Howling in the Woods ... (Director)
1970
- The Interns ... (Director)
- San Francisco International Airport ... (Director)
1969
- Medical Center ... (Director)
- Marcus Welby, M.D. ... (Director)
- Silent Night, Lonely Night ... (Director)
1968
- The Name of the Game ... (Director)
1966
- The Idol ... (Director)
- The Spy with a Cold Nose ... (Director)
1965
- For the People ... (Director)
1964
- Profiles in Courage ... (Director)
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ... (Director)
- East Side/West Side ... (Director)
- Stolen Hours ... (Director)
1962
- The Main Attraction ... (Director)
1961
- The Defenders ... (Director)
- Way Out ... (Director)
- A Raisin in the Sun ... (Director)
- Great Ghost Tales ... (Director)
1960
- The Bramble Bush ... (Director)
1959
- Play of the Week ... (Director)
1958
- Pursuit ... (Director)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Director)
1957
- DuPont Show of the Month ... (Director)
1956
- The Stingiest Man in Town ... (Director)
- Bang the Drum Slowly ... (Director)
1955
- The Alcoa Hour ... (Director)
- A Wind from the South ... (Director)
- Sting of Death ... (Director)
1954
- The Elgin Hour ... (Director)
1953
- The United States Steel Hour ... (Director)
1952
- Omnibus ... (Director)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame ... (Director)
1950
- The Murder Club ... (Director)
1948
- Studio One ... (Director)