Beryl Fox
Beryl Fox | |
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Born | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | December 10, 1931
Occupation(s) | Film director and producer |
Years active | 1962–1982 |
Spouse | Douglas Leiterman |
Beryl Fox (born December 10, 1931) is a Canadian documentary film director and producer.[1]
Biography
Beryl Fox was born in 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She dropped out of high school a year before graduating and worked a series of selling and clerical jobs before going back to school to take business classes at night.[2] At 25 years of age she enrolled at the University of Toronto where she studied history.[2] After graduating she was hired by the CBC and worked there from 1962 to 1966, first as a script assistant and researcher and then as a film director. Fox had a gift for understanding contemporary social and political conflicts.
Fox was the first Canadian to do in depth, and frequently critical, explorations of the Vietnam War, race riots, and feminism in the
Fox was married to Douglas Leiterman, a CBC news producer whose show This Hour Has Seven Days aired several of Fox's documentary films, until his death in 2012.[5]
Selected filmography
- One More River (1963)
- Three on a Match (1963)
- The Single Woman and the Double Standard (1964)
- Summer in Mississippi (1964)
- The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam (1965)
- Youth: In Search of Morality (1966)
- Saigon: Portrait of a City (1967)
- Last Reflections on a War (1968)
- Memorial to Martin Luther King (1969)
- North with the Spring (1970)
- The Visible Woman (1975)
References
- ^ "Canadian Film Encyclopedia - Beryl Fox". Archived from the original on 2012-10-07.
- ^ a b Pelt, Melvyn (March 26, 1966). "Beryl Fox Slogs Through Viet Nam". Winnipeg Free Press.
- ^ "Beryl Fox - Canada's Awards Database". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
- ^ "Beryl Fox First Canadian Winner". Winnipeg Free Press. March 3, 1966.
- ^ "Canadian producer, journalist Douglas Leiterman dies". CP24, December 31, 2012.