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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. His 1970 film Prologue won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
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.
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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.
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.
Mar 29, 2005 · The Toronto-born, England-educated Spry, who moved to Montreal to join the National Film Board of Canada in 1964, directed a number of groundbreaking films in the 1970s, including the...
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 ...
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Oct 5, 2020 · On the morning of October 16, 1970, filmmaker Robin Spry listened to the radio as he made breakfast. Like many of his fellow citizens, he was stunned to learn that the War Measures Act had come into force in Quebec.
