Allan King

Allan Winton King, (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009), was a Canadian film director.

Life Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the Great Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School, in Kitsilano.

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.

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. In 2009, there were similar tributes to King's work at Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque and the Vancouver International Film Centre.

King married three times: first to Phyllis Leiterman in 1952, then to screenwriter Patricia Watson in 1970, and finally to screenwriter Colleen Murphy in 1987.

Filmography Films and telefilms Skid Row (1956) The Pemberton Valley (1957) Rickshaw (1960) (TV) Interview with Orson Welles (1960) (TV) A Matter of Pride (1961) (TV) Dreams (1962) (TV) The Field Day (1963) Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait (1963) (TV) Running Away Backwards (1964) Children in Conflict: A Talk with Irene (1967) Warrendale (1967) A Married Couple (1969) Come on Children (1973) Red Emma (1974) (TV) Baptizing (1975) (TV) Maria (1977) (TV) Who Has Seen the Wind (1977) One Night Stand (1978) (TV) Silence of the North (1981) Tucker and the Horse Thief (1985) (TV) The Last Season (1986) Termini Station (1989) The Dragon's Egg (1998) (TV) Leonardo: A Dream of Flight (1998) (TV) Dying at Grace (2003) Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005) EMPz 4 Life (2006)

Television series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1986 episode) Friday the 13th: The Series (1987) The Twilight Zone (1988 episode) Bordertown (1989 episode) Road to Avonlea (1989) Neon Rider (1990 episode) Dracula: The Series (1990, 1991 episodes) By Way of the Stars (1992) Madison (1993 episodes) Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993) Twice in a Lifetime (1999)