Don Owen

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-09-19 (85 years old)

Deathday

2016-02-21

Place of Birth

-

Don Owen

Biography

Don Owen (September 19, 1931 – February 21, 2016) was a Canadian film director, writer and producer who spent most of his career with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). His films Nobody Waved Good-bye and The Ernie Game are regarded as two of the most significant English Canadian films of the 1960s. Owen was born and raised in Toronto and became interested in film at a young age, mainly, he said, because there was nothing to do on Sundays but go to the two films shown by the Toronto Film Society. He intended to become a poet but studied anthropology at the University of Toronto. To earn extra money while he was working on his graduate ...

Production

1964

1976

Partners

as Writer

1976

Partners

as Producer

1968

The Ernie Game

as Director

1968

The Ernie Game

as Screenplay

1984

1984

1965

High Steel

as Director

1962

Runner

as Director

1964

1978

Holstein

as Editor

1963

Toronto Jazz

as Director

1963

Toronto Jazz

as Editor

1965

High Steel

as Editor

1965

1972

1972

1976

Partners

as Director

1978

Holstein

as Director

1965

High Steel

as Writer

1962

Runner

as Writer

1962

Runner

as Editor

1962

September Five at Saint-Henri

as Director of Photography

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