Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (July 21, 1926 - January 20, 2024) was a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Moonstruck (1987), The Hurricane (1999) and The Statement (2003). Jewison addressed important social and political issues throughout his...
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Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand
2024
as Self
Michel Legrand, jazz musician and composer extraordinaire, has left his mark on the history of cinema, including the films of Jacques Demy, especially...
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
as Self - Interviewee
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The Ghoul...

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
2022
as self
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ev...

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
as Self
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting ...

Sid & Judy
2019
as Self (voice)
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n...
Style and Substance: Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby
2019
Documentary about The Landlord.

Hal
2019
as Self
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as co...

The River of My Dreams
2017
Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 1940s to launch a storied, seven-decade career as on...

Superstars: The Documentary
2015
In 1971, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock op...
Making of The Russians are Coming
2015
Interview with Norman Jewison.

I Am Steve McQueen
2014
as Self
A walk through the incredible personal and artistic history of legendary actor, race car driver and cultural icon Steve McQueen (1930-80).

Pablo
2012
as Self
Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that spans from Havana...
Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
2008
as Self
Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

A Special Kind of Love
2008
as Self
A follow-up of A LOVE STORY OF TODAY, where actors and crew discuss GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.

A Love Story of Today
2008
as Self
A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interviews with people like Katharine Hought...

Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound
2008
as Self
Documentary about the writing and recording of Quincy Jones' score for Norman Jewison's 1967 film IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.

Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's
2008
as Self
Documentary featuring interviews with director Norman Jewison and others providing an in-depth look at the production of the 1967 film IN THE HEAT OF ...

Private Screenings: Norman Jewison
2007
as Director
Director Norman Jewison discusses his life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
2006
as Self
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
as Self
Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career.

Tell Them Who You Are
2004
as Self
The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficu...
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
2004
as Self
Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and ev...

Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
as Self - Executive Producer (voice)
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre...

The Statement
2003
Producer, Director
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effective...

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
as Self (uncredited)
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel...

Dinner with Friends
2001
Director, Executive Producer
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.

Walter and Henry
2001
Executive Producer
Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a ...

The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2000
as Self
Set design has been one of the most overlooked jobs in film, receiving little critical attention until recently. In this Oscar-nominated documentary s...

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City a...
Return to the Arena: The Making of 'Rollerball'
2000
Documentary about the making of the 1975 science-fiction dystopia classic.

Funny Is Money
1999
Director
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of th...

The Hurricane
1999
Producer, Director
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
as Self (uncredited)
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and l...

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
as Self
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does mar...

Bogus
1996
Director, Producer
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, Frenc...

The Stupids
1996
as TV Director
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.

Dance Me Outside
1995
Executive Producer
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas...

Only You
1994
Producer, Director
Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to m...

Geronimo
1993
Executive Producer
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Fin...

Other People's Money
1991
Director, Producer
When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractiv...

Highway 61
1991
Thanks
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corps...

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never staye...

In Country
1989
Director, Producer
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also...

The January Man
1989
Producer
Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A we...

Moonstruck
1987
Producer, Director
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...

Agnes of God
1985
Director, Producer
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to d...

A Soldier's Story
1984
Director, Producer
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also...

Iceman
1984
Producer
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befrie...

Best Friends
1982
Director, Producer
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected ...

The Dogs of War
1980
Executive Producer
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.

...And Justice for All
1979
Producer, Director
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat o...

F.I.S.T.
1978
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher ...

Rollerball
1975
Director, Producer
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho...
From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle
1975
Behind the scenes footage on the set filming Rollerball

Billy Two Hats
1974
Producer
After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half-breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship, but ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
1973
as Man (voice) (uncredited)
As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' followin...

Jesus Christ Superstar
1973
Director, Screenplay, Producer
As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' followin...

Fiddler on the Roof
1971
Director, Producer
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism ...

Norman Jewison, Film Maker
1971
as Self
Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical fea...

The Landlord
1970
as Wedding Guest in Opening Shot (uncredited)
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...

The Landlord
1970
Producer
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...

Gaily, Gaily
1969
Director, Producer
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who...

The Thomas Crown Affair
1968
Director, Producer
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However,...

In the Heat of the Night
1967
Director
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Spar...

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966
Director, Producer
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov,...

The Cincinnati Kid
1965
Director
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

The Art of Love
1965
Director
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.

Send Me No Flowers
1964
Director
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two ...

The Thrill of It All
1963
Director
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

40 Pounds of Trouble
1962
Director
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

The Judy Garland Show
1962
Producer, Director
This CBS special, filmed in 1962 and colorized in this version, brings together three legends in a once-in-a-lifetime concert. Frank Sinatra and Dean ...

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962
Director
A musical special celebrating the fruitful collaboration of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Stars from the ...

The Fabulous Fifties
1960
Director
The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a...

Canadian Pacific
1949
as Joe Podge (uncredited)
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.