Harold Lee Tichenor
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Harold Lee Tichenor January 17, 1946 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | Cinema |
Harold Tichenor (born January 17, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Canadian multi-award winning film producer and writer and an adherent of the Baha'i Faith.
From an early age, Harold Tichenor along with his brother Jim, developed an avid interest in filmmaking. Their grandfather Archie Tichenor had made films and audio visual programs for the US Baha'i community and their uncle Allen Tichenor worked as a camera technician in NYC.
Raised in Philadelphia, Harold was fourteen years old in 1960 when he and his older brother started making films. In 1962 he joined The Film-Makers' Cooperative as its youngest member. Never expecting that a career in film was a realistic possibility, in the early 1960s, Tichenor held a number of jobs working as a land surveyor, piano technician, dairy herdsman, fish hatcheryman, draftsman and punch press operator. He attended the Walter Biddle Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences intending to pursue studies in the biological sciences in college. But in 1963 while enrolled in the ecology program at the University of Alaska, he found his first paying job in film working as the State of Alaska film librarian and as a cameraman for the University and its Geophysical Institute making documentary and educational films. At the same time he worked as the director of the University of Alaska Film Group programming a series of classic and foreign films.
In those years Canada was the foremost documentary film producing country in the world and in 1966 Tichenor decided to immigrate in order to further his career in non-fiction production. Initially, he worked as a freelance cameraman for CBUT Vancouver and in 1967 he moved to Alberta to help establish the media division of the newly formed University of Lethbridge. Over the next five years he produced a variety of science and educational documentaries for the University. In 1970-1, he served as research assistant to John Grierson when the noted social documentarian was guest professor at the University. In 1972, Tichenor completed his bachelor's degree in Drama and Art specializing in Film History and in 1974, after a year working as a writer/producer in Ottawa for the Public Service Commission’s Bureau of Staff Development and Training, he moved back to Alberta to continue his film career in the private sector.
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