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Allan King

Canadian film director (1930–2009)

For other people with the same name, see Alan King (disambiguation).

Allan Winton King, OC (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009),^[1] was a Canadian film director.

Life

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the Great Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School, in Kitsilano.^[2]

With documentary filmmakers Don Haig and Beryl Fox, King was a partner in Film Arts, a Toronto-based post-production company that worked on their film projects and the television series This Hour Has Seven Days, The National Dream and W5.^[3]

In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Ten of King's films were released as a collection representing various stages of his life. King's work was also the focus of a retrospective at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2007 New York City's Museum of Modern Art hosted a retrospective of his work.^[4] In 2009, there were similar tributes to King's work at Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque and the Vancouver International

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Allan King

For nearly half a century, Allan King has changed the way film and television show us the world. Warrendale, banned from Canadian television in one of the most infamous censorship battles of the 1960s, took its place alongside other landmarks of direct cinema by such filmmakers as D.A. Pennebaker, the Maysles brothers and Frederick Wiseman.
While considered to be one of the great documentarians, King is also renowned as a key pioneer of the Canadian feature film industry. His work has been described by critics as “shattering, illuminating and unforgettable” — Judith Crist, “stunning and, in some ways ruthless” — Vincent Canby, and “magnificent” — Newsweek.
The first and only publication to examine King’s entire body of work, Allan King: Filmmaker provides an extensive analysis of the life and work of one Canada’s most significant and provocative filmmakers. Includes an interview with the director and a filmography and bibliography.
Published by the Toronto International Film Festival. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed o

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" I love the last stages of a film. But the first parts are very often quite panic-stricken. There's that blind terror, when it's first screened for people, that they're going to be bored."

Allan King was born in 1930 in Vancouver, British Columbia. After finishing a degree in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, he began his more than forty years in the film industry. He started at CBC Television Vancouver where he quickly became a producer. By 1961 he had left the CBC and Canada to go to Europe. It was here that he started Allan King Associates, his company which has produced films on a wide variety of topics. In 1967 King returned to Canada, where he established his Canadian offices in Toronto, Ontario.

A staunch supporter of filmmakers' rights, he was a founding member and former president and chief executive officer of the Directors' Guild of Canada. In 2002, he was honoured by the Toronto International Film Festival with a retrospective of his work, accompanied by a monograph, Allan King: Filmmaker, compiled by Seth Feldman. Also a membe