Tag: Film

Gaby, born Dorothy Fay Hammerton on September 26 1895, married to actor/producer David Clyde, appeared as a dancer on the British stage by the age of nine, and later turned to acting. Gaby Fay, who was the principal leading lady in many of the Players productions, bought a house for herself and David in Vancouver in 1930. From 1929…
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Described as “the greatest exterior camera artist in the world,” Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999) was a pioneering cameraman whose footage of some of the most remote locales on the planet introduced moviegoers to the beauty of India, sub-Saharan Africa, and Antarctica at a time when few Westerners traveled outside of North America and Europe. Borradaile was…
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Janet Wright was born in 1945 in England and moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at a very young age. Raised in a family of theatre performers, Janet and her three siblings, Anne, John and Susan, all became successful actors.  She has performed for virtually every major theatre company in Canada. Together with her two sisters, Susan…
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With over 25 years of experience, Shawn Williamson has risen to the forefront of the Canadian film and television industry as a leading independent film and television producer.  A native of Vancouver, Shawn began his career as a stage manager at The Arts Club Theatre in 1983 and has since produced live events, live television…
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Leonard Schein is a former Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) executive director and Montreal World Film Festival director of English-language films. He founded the Vancouver Internatioinal Film Festival (VIFF) and is a former local movie theatre operator.   Schein was born in Los Angeles, home of the Hollywood Studios but t was his time at…
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