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Paul Almond is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Canadien born on 26 april 1931 at Montreal (Canada)
Paul Almond, OC (born April 26, 1931 in Montreal, Québec) is a Canadian former television and motion picture screenwriter, director and producer, and since 1990 has been a novelist.
References
External links
Paul Almond at the Internet Movie Database
Official site
Canadian Film Award Winners for Best Director
Ron Kelly (1966)
Allan King and Ron Kelly (1967)
Don Owen (1968)
Peter Pearson (1969)
Paul Almond (1970)
Claude Jutra (1971)
Gilles Carle (1972)
David Acomba (1973)
no award (1974)
Michel Brault (1975)
Harvey Hart (1976)
Jean Beaudin (1977)
Daryl Duke (1978)
Persondata
Name
Almond, Paul
Alternative names
Short description
Writer
Date of birth
April 26, 1931
Place of birth
Montreal, Canada
Date of death
Place of death
Source : Wikidata
Paul Almond
Nationality Canada
Birth 26 april 1931 at Montreal (Canada)
Death 10 april 2015 (at 83 years)
Awards Officer of the Order of Canada
Birth 26 april 1931 at Montreal (Canada)
Death 10 april 2015 (at 83 years)
Awards Officer of the Order of Canada
Biography
High Hopes: Coming of Age in the mid-Century (ECW Press, 1999)(with Michael Ballantyne)References
External links
Paul Almond at the Internet Movie Database
Official site
Canadian Film Award Winners for Best Director
Ron Kelly (1966)
Allan King and Ron Kelly (1967)
Don Owen (1968)
Peter Pearson (1969)
Paul Almond (1970)
Claude Jutra (1971)
Gilles Carle (1972)
David Acomba (1973)
no award (1974)
Michel Brault (1975)
Harvey Hart (1976)
Jean Beaudin (1977)
Daryl Duke (1978)
Persondata
Name
Almond, Paul
Alternative names
Short description
Writer
Date of birth
April 26, 1931
Place of birth
Montreal, Canada
Date of death
Place of death
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Filmography of Paul Almond (6 films)
Director
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Captive Hearts (1987)
, 1h37Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pat Morita, Chris Makepeace, Seth Sakai, Michael Sarrazin, Denis Akiyama
Rating60%
Shot down over 1944 wartime Japan, an American airman and his Sergeant are taken in by the village elder after he saves them from execution. The young airman, Robert, soon takes quite a strong and intimate romantic affections and fondness to the elder's widowed daughter, though a local man becomes jealous of their new romantic relationship and the romantic couple are then in danger because of their deep, blossoming romance.
Final Assignment (1980)
Directed by Paul Almond
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Michael York, Geneviève Bujold, Alexandra Stewart, Burgess Meredith, Colleen Dewhurst
Rating46%
In this complex spy caper, Nicole (Geneviève Bujold) is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former Soviet Union. She is there to cover a visit by the Canadian prime minister, but along the way she discovers an unethical experimentation on children involving the use of steroids, she is also involved in smuggling out a girl for emergency brain surgery. Things get complicated when in the process, she develops a romantic liaison with Lyosha (Michael York), a bureaucrat in the Soviet press corps whose job is to watch her during her stay. A rich businessman (Burgess Meredith) she knows happens to be in Russia at the same time, and she asks him to help her in the smuggling attempt.
Journey (1972)
Directed by Paul Almond
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, John Vernon, Gale Garnett
Rating60%
Journey is the allegorical story of a young woman's struggle - outside the normal framework of space and time - to find herself.
Act of the Heart (1970)
, 1h43Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Sharon Acker, Eric House, Claude Jutra
Rating60%
Martha Hayes (Geneviève Bujold), a devoutly religious young woman from Québec's Côte-Nord who fancies herself as some kind of a saint, arrives in Montréal to serve as nanny to Russell (Bill Mitchell), the son of a widowed business woman (Monique Leyrac).
Isabel (1968)
, 1h48Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Eric Clavering, Gerard Parkes, Marc Strange, Al Waxman
Rating58%
Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel (Geneviève Bujold) returns to her family's farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.
MacBeth (1961)
, 1h25Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Sean Connery, Zoe Caldwell, Eric Christmas, Lawrence Dane, Powys Thomas
Rating58%
The Scottish lord Macbeth chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power. He commits regicide to become king and then furthers his moral descent with a reign of murderous terror to stay in power, eventually plunging the country into civil war. In the end, he loses everything that gives meaning and purpose to his life before losing his life itself.
Scriptwriter
Journey (1972)
Directed by Paul Almond
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, John Vernon, Gale Garnett
Rating60%
Journey is the allegorical story of a young woman's struggle - outside the normal framework of space and time - to find herself.
Act of the Heart (1970)
, 1h43Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Sharon Acker, Eric House, Claude Jutra
Rating60%
Martha Hayes (Geneviève Bujold), a devoutly religious young woman from Québec's Côte-Nord who fancies herself as some kind of a saint, arrives in Montréal to serve as nanny to Russell (Bill Mitchell), the son of a widowed business woman (Monique Leyrac).
Isabel (1968)
, 1h48Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Eric Clavering, Gerard Parkes, Marc Strange, Al Waxman
Rating58%
Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel (Geneviève Bujold) returns to her family's farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.
MacBeth (1961)
, 1h25Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Sean Connery, Zoe Caldwell, Eric Christmas, Lawrence Dane, Powys Thomas
Rating58%
The Scottish lord Macbeth chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power. He commits regicide to become king and then furthers his moral descent with a reign of murderous terror to stay in power, eventually plunging the country into civil war. In the end, he loses everything that gives meaning and purpose to his life before losing his life itself.
Producer
Journey (1972)
Directed by Paul Almond
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, John Vernon, Gale Garnett
Roles Producer
Rating60%
Journey is the allegorical story of a young woman's struggle - outside the normal framework of space and time - to find herself.
Act of the Heart (1970)
, 1h43Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Sharon Acker, Eric House, Claude Jutra
Roles Producer
Rating60%
Martha Hayes (Geneviève Bujold), a devoutly religious young woman from Québec's Côte-Nord who fancies herself as some kind of a saint, arrives in Montréal to serve as nanny to Russell (Bill Mitchell), the son of a widowed business woman (Monique Leyrac).
Isabel (1968)
, 1h48Directed by Paul Almond
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Geneviève Bujold, Eric Clavering, Gerard Parkes, Marc Strange, Al Waxman
Roles Producer
Rating58%
Learning of her mother's serious illness, Isabel (Geneviève Bujold) returns to her family's farm on the Gaspé Peninsula. Her mother dies before she can get there, and when her aged uncle Matthew (Gerard Parkes) asks her to stay on and help him with the farm, she reluctantly agrees. She finds herself haunted by memories of early years (domestic violence, incest and the mysterious deaths of her grandfather, who died in a freak accident, and her father and brother, who both drowned at sea) in a house full of eerie sights and sounds.
Editor
Journey (1972)
Directed by Paul Almond
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, John Vernon, Gale Garnett
Rating60%
Journey is the allegorical story of a young woman's struggle - outside the normal framework of space and time - to find herself.