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Harry Rasky, CM, O.Ont (9 May 1928 – 9 April 2007) was a Canadian documentary film director. [1] Life and career. Rasky was born in Toronto, Ontario into a Jewish family, where he completed studies at Oakwood Collegiate Institute and then University College. [2] .
Apr 10, 2007 · One of Canada's leading documentary makers, Harry Rasky, died Monday at the age of 78.
Harry Rasky was born on 9 May 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977), Being Different (1981) and StrataSphere: Portrait of Teresa Stratas (1983).
- Director, Writer, Producer
- May 9, 1928
- Harry Rasky
- April 9, 2007
Oct 23, 2011 · Harry Rasky, director, writer, producer (b at Toronto 9 May 1928; d at Toronto 9 Apr 2007). Harry Rasky attended the Regal Road Public School and Oakwood Collegiate. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1949 with a bachelor of arts, and first was a reporter in Kirkland Lake, Ont, for The Kirkland Lake News.
An outspoken, ambitious, idealistic and philosophical hustler – as much a romantic poet as a filmmaker – Harry Rasky is one of world cinema’s most prolific and internationally acclaimed documentary filmmakers.
Apr 11, 2007 · Harry Rasky, one of the shining lights of non-fiction filmmaking on Canadian television from the beginning, died in hospital Monday at 78 following hip surgery.
RASKY, HARRY (1928–), Canadian film maker, producer, director, author. Rasky was born in Toronto, one of eight children in a Yiddish-speaking Russian immigrant home. Harry, whose father was a cantor and shoḥet, spoke only Yiddish until he began public school.
