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Donald Brittain is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Canadien born on 10 june 1928 at Ottawa (Canada)

Donald Brittain

Donald Brittain
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Nationality Canada
Birth 10 june 1928 at Ottawa (Canada)
Death 21 july 1989 (at 61 years) at Montreal (Canada)
Awards Canadian Film Award, Order of Canada, Gemini Award, Genie Awards, Officer of the Order of Canada

Donald Brittain, OC (June 10, 1928 – July 21, 1989) was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada.

Fields of Sacrifice (1964) is considered Brittain's first major film as director.
His other notable directorial credits include the 1965 documentaries Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen and Memorandum and the Genie Award-winning 1979 documentary Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed. He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, Tiger Child for Expo '70, and Earthwatch, a 70mm film for Expo 86.

He wrote the 1975 Oscar-nominated short documentary Whistling Smith. He co-directed the 1976 feature documentary Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry which garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination.

Brittain also directed the three-part CBC-coproduced series The Champions, chronicling the lives and battles of Canadian political titans René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. His most ambitious project was The King Chronicle, a three-part 1987-88 television series about the remarkable career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

He won the Gemini Award for best screenplay and direction for the 1985 drama Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks.

As NFB producer, Brittain's credits included Arthur Lipsett's A Trip Down Memory Lane.


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Filmography of Donald Brittain (13 films)

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Actor

What on Earth!
What on Earth! (1967)
, 9minutes
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Mars in film, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Road movies, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Donald Brittain
Roles Narrator
Rating70% 3.525363.525363.525363.525363.52536
The film shows the earth from the view of the Martian flying machines which did not land but used cameras to film earth society. It then follows one average (what it believes to be) earthling and its civilization, by in effect showing a "day in the life" and how they live it. First, it shows one going through dinner with a precisely regulated feeding (vehicle refueling from a gas pump), then it must take its rest (pulling into an attached garage next to a house), because it will have a busy day the next day.

Director

Tiger Child
Tiger Child (1970)
, 17minutes
Directed by Donald Brittain
Genres Fantasy
Rating57% 2.8896852.8896852.8896852.8896852.889685

Scriptwriter