Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian film, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter.
12 Facts About Daniel Petrie
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Daniel Petrie was one of several Canadian-born expatriate filmmakers, including Norman Jewison and Sidney J Furie, to find critical and commercial success overseas in the 1960s due to the limited opportunities in the Canadian film industry at the time.
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Daniel Petrie was the patriarch of the Petrie filmmaking family, with four of his children all working in the film industry.
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Daniel Petrie directed over 90 films and television programs until his retirement in 2001, winning several accolades in the process.
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Daniel Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Daniel Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer.
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Daniel Petrie achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Communications at St Francis Xavier University before completing a Masters in adult education at Columbia University.
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Daniel Petrie served in the Canadian Army during World War II.
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Daniel Petrie moved to the United States in 1945, and began his career teaching at Northwestern University and Creighton University, where he was head of the theatre department until 1950.
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Daniel Petrie went on to have a fulfilling movie directing career because of the success of this movie; Richards did not get an opportunity to direct a movie again until 1995.
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Daniel Petrie directed Buster and Billie ; the Academy Award-nominated Resurrection ; Fort Apache, The Bronx ; and Cocoon: The Return.
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Daniel Petrie died of cancer in 2004 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 83.
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Daniel Petrie was married for 57 years to Dorothea Grundy Daniel Petrie, an Emmy-winning film and television producer.