Giles Walker
Giles Walker (January 17, 1946 - March 23, 2020)[1] was a Scottish-born Canadian film director.
Brief biography[]
Giles Walker, born in 1946 in Dundee, Scotland, received a B.A. from the University of New Brunswick and an M.A. from Stanford University Film School in 1972. He joined the Canadian National Film Board soon after, directing documentaries, then switching to dramas in 1977. Bravery in the Field was nominated for a live-action short Oscar in 1979. The Masculine Mystique (directed with John N. Smith), the first of a trio of NFB movies dealing with issues of gender relations, showed Walker's experimental side, working with non-professional actors and the technique of improvisation.[2] The two other films in the series, however, moved closer to an easy, palatable Hollywood style – successfully in 90 Days but less so in The Last Straw. Perhaps Walker's most successful fictional work is Princes in Exile, a film about a summer camp for children with cancer, notable for delicate treatment of the subject and a moving lack of sentimentality. Walker died in March 2020.
Partial filmography[]
- Bravery in the Field (1979) - director, writer
- The Masculine Mystique (1984) - co-writer, co-producer, co-director with John N. Smith
- 90 Days (1985) – writer, producer, director
- The Last Straw (1987) – writer, producer, director
- Princes in Exile (1990) – director
- Ordinary Magic (1993) - director
- Never Too Late (1996) – director
- Little Men (1999) – director, 1 episode
- Blind Terror (2001) – director
- Tales from the Neverending Story (2001) – director, 2 episodes
- Fries with That? (2004, YTV) – director, 11 episodes
- Doctor*Ology (2007, Discovery Channel) – director, 2 episodes
References[]
- ^ "Giles WALKER". Legacy. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ Stukator, Angela (30 May 2013). "Pictures of age and ageing in Cynthia Scott's The Company of Strangers". In Eugene P. Walz (ed.). Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films. Rodopi. p. 239. ISBN 978-9042015982.
External links[]
- Giles Walker at IMDb
- Films by Giles Walker at the National Film Board of Canada
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