Donald Brittain
Film director
1928 – 1989
Who was Donald Brittain?
Donald Brittain, OC was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada.
Fields of Sacrifice is considered Brittain's first major film as director. His other notable directorial credits include the 1965 documentaries Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen and Memorandum and the Genie Award-winning 1979 documentary Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed. He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, Tiger Child for Expo '70, and Earthwatch, a 70mm film for Expo 86.
He wrote the 1975 Oscar-nominated short documentary Whistling Smith. He co-directed the 1976 feature documentary Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry which garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination.
Brittain also directed the three-part CBC-coproduced series The Champions, chronicling the lives and battles of Canadian political titans René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. His most ambitious project was The King Chronicle, a three-part 1987-88 television series about the remarkable career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
He won the Gemini Award for best screenplay and direction for the 1985 drama Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks.
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- Born
- Jun 10, 1928
Ottawa - Also known as
- Donald Brittain, OC
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Lived in
- Ottawa
- Montreal
- Died
- Jul 21, 1989
Montreal - Resting place
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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