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Norman Jewison
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Canadian film director, producer and actor (1926–2024)
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Norman Jewison was a director whose professional career began in 1950 and concluded in 2003. He was recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
Jewison was born on July 21, 1926, and died on January 20, 2024. He had three children.
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Film & TV
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (July 21, 1926 - January 20, 2024) was a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Moonstruck (1987), The Hurricane (1999) and The Statement (2003). Jewison…
Known for
- Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand — Self2024
- Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen — self2022
- Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story — Self - Interviewee2022
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self2021
- Hal — Self2019
- Sid & Judy — Self (voice)2019
- Style and Substance: Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby2019
- The River of My Dreams2017
- Making of The Russians are Coming2015
- Superstars: The Documentary2015
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Key facts
- Born
- Norman Frederick Jewison , ( 1926-07-21 ) July 21, 1926, Toronto , Ontario, Canada
- Died
- January 20, 2024 (2024-01-20) (aged 97), Malibu, California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Victoria College, Toronto ( B.A. , 1949)
- Occupations
- Director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1950–2003
- Organization
- Canadian Film Centre
- Spouses
- Margaret Ann Dixon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ; died 2004 ) Lynne St. David ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. November 2010</span>"}]]}'>2010 )
- Awards
- Full list
- Allegiance
- Canada
- Branch
- Royal Canadian Navy
- Service years
- 1944–1945
- Conflicts
- World War II
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Described at
Acclaimed director Norman Jewison, dead at 97, explored social issues in a turbulent age - The Globe and Mail
He also founded the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, a professional talent development hub, so Canadian actors, writers, directors, producers and others could learn to tell their own stories without having to join the exodus to Hollywood
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Norman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Educated at
- Aiglon College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film industry
- Image
- Norman Jewison 2019.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Norman Jewison
- date of birth
- 1926-07-21
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Norman Jewison
- birth name
- Norman Frederick Jewison
- end of work period
- 2003-00-00
- date of death
- 2024-01-20
- name in native language
- Norman Jewison
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Encyclopedic overview
Norman Frederick Jewison (July 21, 1926 – January 20, 2024) was a Canadian filmmaker. He is known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Moonstruck (1987). He was nominated for an additional four Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, and won a BAFTA Award. He received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999.
Born and raised in Toronto, Jewison began his career at CBC Television in the 1950s, moving to the United States later in the decade to work at NBC. He made his feature film debut in 1962, with the comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble, and embarked on a motion picture directing career that spanned over 40 years. His notable films included The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Rollerball (1975), F.I.S.T. (1978), ...And Justice for All (1979), A Soldier's Story (1984), Agnes of God (1985) and The Hurricane (1999).
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