Colin Low

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-07-24 (90 years old)

Deathday

2016-02-24

Place of Birth

Cardston, Alberta, Canada

Colin Low

Biography

Colin Archibald Low CM RCA (July 24, 1926 – February 24, 2016) was a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was known as a pioneer, one of Canada's most important filmmakers, and was regularly referred to as "the gentleman genius". His numerous honors include five BAFTA awards, eight Cannes Film Festival awards, and six Academy Award nominations. Low was born and raised in Cardston, Alberta, to Gerald and Marion Low, ranchers who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The town borders the Kainai Nation (Blood Tribe), which later became the subject of two of his ...

Production

1955

1976

Christ Is Risen

as Executive Producer

1973

Coming Home

as Producer

1962

Pot-pourri

as Producer

1954

1947

Cadet Rousselle

as Animation

1961

1964

Free Fall

as Producer

1957

City of Gold

as Director

1960

Universe

as Writer

1954

Corral

as Director

1961

1967

1967

1967

A Woman's Place

as Director

1975

Earthware

as Producer

1976

The Mad Canadian

as Executive Producer

1974

In Search of the Bowhead Whale

as Executive Producer

1975

Descent

as Producer

1967

In the Labyrinth

as Director

1982

Standing Alone

as Director

1961

2000

Moving Pictures

as Director

1967

1970

1960

Universe

as Director

1960

Universe

as Production Design

1948

Time and Terrain

as Director

1952

1955

Gold

as Director

1972

1972

A Memo from Fogo

as Producer

1973

Kainai

as Producer

1975

Alberta Girls

as Executive Producer

1962

The Living Machine

as Animation

1974

1959

1960

Appetizers

as Producer

1992

Momentum

as Director

1967

1967

1967

1967

1967

1967

1954

Corral

as Writer

1976

The Sword of the Lord

as Executive Producer

1957

City of Gold

as Director of Photography

1959

City Out of Time

as Director

1964

The Hutterites

as Director

1974

Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut

as Executive Producer

1975

Musicanada

as Executive Producer

1967

1961

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Log House

as Executive Producer

1974

Freshwater World

as Executive Producer

1976

No Way They Want to Slow Down

as Executive Producer

1955

The Jolifou Inn

as Director

1976

Blackwood

as Executive Producer

1948

Time and Terrain

as Animation

1948

1963

Seven Surprizes

as Director

1979

1986

Transitions

as Director

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I Am an Old Tree

as Executive Producer

1983

1954

1988

Emergency

as Director

1988

Emergency

as Writer

1975

Lumsden

as Executive Producer

1963

21-87

as Producer

1974

King of the Hill

as Executive Producer

1974

1962

1958

The Living Stone

as Cinematography

1976

Los Canadienses

as Producer

1972

Cell 16

as Producer

1975

Waiting for Fidel

as Executive Producer

1974

Another Side of the Forest

as Executive Producer

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