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Robin Spry (October 25, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Canadian film director, producer and writer. He 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 on 25 October 1939 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a producer and writer, known for Hitting Home (1988) , One Man (1977) and Keeping Track (1986) . He died on 28 March 2005 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Jan 9, 2011 · Robin Spry, director, producer, writer (b at Toronto 25 Oct 1939; d at Montréal 28 Mar 2005). Robin Spry was the son of Canadian broadcast pioneer and CBC co-founder Graham SPRY. Robin Spry was educated at Oxford University, England, and the London School of Economics. He made several short films in England before returning to Canada to join ...
Oct 5, 2020 · Spry’s aim was to stick to the essentials and chronicle the events as they unfolded. A linear approach could have made for something boring and pedantic; happily, the result is quite the opposite. The combination of footage shot during the crisis by the French and English crews, archival images from the CBC/SRC, and an understated narration (read by Spry in the original English version), is masterful.
Mar 28, 2005 · 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 one of the brightest talents of the late sixties and early seventies and a pioneer of the emerging English-Canadian film scene of that era. Equally adept at documentary and fiction and gifted with a keen eye for social analysis, his films often dealt with contemporary social issues and were continually concerned with the politics of power.
Robin Spry didn’t start out to be a filmmaker.He was a graduate of Oxford and the London School of Economics and that`s where he first became interested in film. The son of CBC co-founder Graham Spry, he made several short dramatic films before returning to Canada, specifically Montreal and became a pioneer of the emerging English-Canadian film scene of the late 1960s.
