Wolf Koenig

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-10-17 (87 years old)

Deathday

2014-06-26

Place of Birth

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Wolf Koenig

Biography

Wolf Koenig (October 17, 1927 – June 26, 2014) was a Canadian film director, producer, animator, cinematographer, and a pioneer in Direct Cinema at the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Dresden, Germany, Koenig emigrated to Canada with his family in 1937, when they fled Nazi Germany. They settled in 145-acre (0.59 km2) farm along the Grand River, outside what is now known as Cambridge, Ontario. In 1948, a local representative for the Canadian department of agriculture needed the family's tractor to demonstrate a new tree-planting machine. As the young Koenig pulled the machine across a field, he noticed a small film crew from the NFB's ...

Acting

Production

1973

Ananse's Farm

as Producer

1972

Tilt

as Producer

1975

1966

Steeltown

as Director

1957

City of Gold

as Director

1962

Lonely Boy

as Director

1984

John Cat

as Editor

1984

John Cat

as Writer

1984

John Cat

as Director

1976

The Lion and the Mouse

as Executive Producer

1970

Ashes of Doom

as Producer

1977

Deep Threat

as Producer

1977

The Street

as Executive Producer

1975

The Energy Carol

as Executive Producer

1975

The Housewife

as Executive Producer

1980

Nose and Tina

as Producer

1958

1958

1959

1975

A Token Gesture

as Executive Producer

1952

Neighbours

as Director of Photography

1959

1973

Tickets s.v.p

as Producer

1958

Blood and Fire

as Producer

1960

1958

1959

Emergency Ward

as Producer

1958

Police

as Producer

1958

Pilgrimage

as Producer

1966

Stravinsky

as Director

1966

Stravinsky

as Editor

1964

Age of the Buffalo

as Cinematography

1955

Gold

as Cinematography

1962

The Living Machine

as Cinematography

1982

1974

Who Are We?

as Producer

1959

Glenn Gould: On the Record

as Director of Photography

1966

Stravinsky

as Director of Photography

1960

The Cars in Your Life

as Director of Photography

1959

Glenn Gould: Off the Record

as Director of Photography

1958

Pilgrimage

as Director of Photography

1957

City of Gold

as Director of Photography

1958

Blood and Fire

as Director of Photography

1959

Emergency Ward

as Director of Photography

1954

Corral

as Director of Photography

1998

Show Girls

as Director of Photography

1961

1975

Perspectrum

as Producer

1984

Behind the Veil: Nuns

as Graphic Designer

1975

Natsik Hunting

as Producer

1958

Memory of Summer

as Producer

1977

Spinnolio

as Producer

1951

1973

1973

1957

It's a Crime

as Director

1977

Amisk

as Executive Producer

1958

Memory of Summer

as Director of Photography

1977

1977

Poets on Film No. 1

as Executive Producer

1977

Poets on Film No. 2

as Executive Producer

1991

Walker

as Producer

1974

1969

1970

1970

N-Zone

as Camera Operator

1960

Universe

as Camera Operator

1962

Lonely Boy

as Director of Photography

1995

Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot... He Scores

as Director of Photography

1971

Hot Stuff

as Producer

1973

1974

1986

Connection

as Director

1986

Connection

as Editor

1966

Steeltown

as Director of Photography

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