Eric Till
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Eric Till (born 24 November 1929) is an English film and television director working in Canada, the United States, and Europe since the 1960s. His 1977 film It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.[1]
Career
After directing for the Armchair Theatre and Wednesday Play series' in the UK, Till emigrated to Canada in Toronto. He has directed numerous Canadian and American TV films from the 1960s onwards, including An American Christmas Carol starring Henry Winkler, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump, and To Catch a Killer, starring Brian Dennehy as psychopathic serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Films he has directed include
Till has directed performances of the
In 2005 he was awarded the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.[2] On August 12, 2008, it was announced that Till would be receiving the 2008 Directors Guild of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award.[3]
References
- ^ "10th Moscow International Film Festival (1977)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "Eric Till biography". Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Modern approach turns Nutcracker into thriller Archived 2016-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, Windsor Star, December 19, 2008
External links
- Eric Till at IMDb