Paul Almond
| Paul Almond | |
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| Born |
April 26, 1931 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | April 9, 2015 (aged 83) Malibu, California, U.S. |
| Occupation |
Novelist Film director Film producer Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1955–1992 |
Paul Almond OC (April 26, 1931 – April 9, 2015) was a Canadian former television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist.
Paul Almond attended Bishop's College School, McGill University and Balliol College, Oxford University, where he read Philosophy, Politics, Economics, edited the University magazine Isis played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club and was president of the university Poetry Society.
At the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he worked primarily as a director and producer, and also wrote several scripts. He did similar work in England for the BBC and Associated British Corporation (London) and Granada TV (where he created the ground-breaking documentary Seven Up!) before embarking on a career as a feature-length film-maker.
In the late 1960s, he ambitiously attempted to establish a quality Canadian art cinema, with his understated and highly interiorized films Isabel (1968), The Act of the Heart (1970) and Journey (1972), featuring his then-wife actress Geneviève Bujold. At the time, these films were met with some critical resistance in Canada, but this unique trilogy constitutes Almond's best work to date and is a distinctive contribution to Canadian film.
After an absence from filmmaking of almost a decade, he went on directing three more films; Ups and Downs (1983), Captive Hearts (1987) and The Dance Goes On (1991), the later featuring once again Bujold, and their son Matthew Almond.
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