Sidney J. Furie
| Sidney J. Furie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 February 1933 Toronto, Canada |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1959–present |
Sidney J. Furie (born February 28, 1933) is a Canadian film director. Furie is perhaps best known for directing American Soldiers, The IPCRESS File, The Entity, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys, Gable and Lombard, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York and the Iron Eagle films.
Furie attended Vaughan Road Collegiate in Toronto in 1947.
Also credited with co-creating NBC's offbeat legal drama Petrocelli, which ran from 1974 to 1976 (it was a spinoff from his 1970 film The Lawyer), he also directed Cliff Richard and The Shadows in The Young Ones (1961 film) and the 1964 musical Wonderful Life.
He was the subject of a full length biography by Daniel Kremer, Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films, published by The University Press of Kentucky in 2015. A feature documentary film called Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel! was scheduled for release in 2017. Kremer discovered and preserved Furie's 1959 dramatic film A Cool Sound from Hell, a long-thought-lost piece of Canadian film history.A Cool Sound from Hell was originally released in England in 1960 as a double feature with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, but it was lost when it was misfiled as The Beat Generation, the name of another film from the same era. The restored film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016.
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