Robin Spry

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-10-25 (66 years old)

Deathday

2005-03-28

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robin Spry

Biography

Robin Spry (October 25, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Canadian film director and television producer and screenwriter. Spry was perhaps best known for his documentary films Action: The October Crisis of 1970 and Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis about Quebec's October Crisis. Robin Spry was born in Toronto, Ontario to Canadian broadcast pioneer Graham Spry and economic historian Irene Spry. After studies at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Spry began his filmmaking career in 1964 at the National Film Board in Montreal, earning a place on its payroll in 1965 and remaining there until stepping down in 1978. Whil...

Acting

1981

1972

Quebec: Duplessis and After...

as Narrator - Durham Report (1838)

Production

1968

The Ernie Game

as Assistant Director

1988

Malarek

as Producer

1992

1992

1988

1992

1987

Keeping Track

as Director

1967

1966

1978

2003

1988

Hitting Home

as Story

1988

Hitting Home

as Producer

1977

One Man

as Director

1999

Nightmare Man

as Executive Producer

1970

Prologue

as Producer

1970

Prologue

as Director

1981

Suzanne

as Writer

1981

Suzanne

as Director

1965

1987

1966

Miner

as Writer

1966

Miner

as Director

1965

1977

One Man

as Writer

1967

1967

Illegal Abortion

as Director

1988

Hitting Home

as Director

1973

Downhill

as Director

1973

Downhill

as Producer

1991

1996

On Dangerous Ground

as Co-Executive Producer

1997

Midnight Man

as Executive Producer

1998

Thunder Point

as Executive Producer

1998

The Windsor Protocol

as Executive Producer

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