Robert Lantos

Robert Lantos (born 3 April 1949) is a Hungarian-Canadian film producer.

Life and career Lantos was born on 3 April 1949 in Budapest, Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He immigrated to Canada in 1963.

Lantos studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and graduated with a BA (1970) and an MA (1972). Following graduation from McGill, he founded Vivafilm which imported and distributed foreign films across Canada. He later started a production company, RSL Entertainment, which produced fifteen films, most notably George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women and Ted Kotcheff's Joshua Then and Now. He received the Academy of Canadian Film and Television's Air Canada Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Business of Filmmaking in Canada in 1991, the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Chetwynd Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, and the Ontario Region's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995.

At the 2015 Toronto International film Festival, the Canadian Media Production Association announced that Lantos had won 10th annual Feature Film Producer's Award.

Filmography as producer

For a complete list of credits see:

Motion picture credits The Angel and the Woman (L'Ange et la femme) (1977) In Praise of Older Women (1978) Agency (1980) Suzanne (1980) Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981) Paradise (1982) Scandale (1982) Bedroom Eyes (1984) Heavenly Bodies (1984) Night Magic (1985) Joshua Then and Now (1985) Sword of Gideon - executive producer (1986) Separate Vacations (1986) Black Robe (1991) On My Own – executive producer (1992) Léolo – executive producer (1992) Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Never Talk to Strangers (1995) Crash (1996) The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Existenz (1999) Felicia's Journey (1999) Sunshine (1999) Stardom (2000) Men with Brooms (2002) Ararat (2002) The Statement (2003) Being Julia (2004) Where the Truth Lies (2005) Fugitive Pieces (2007) Adoration (2008) Eastern Promises (2007) Barney's Version (2010) The Right Kind of Wrong (2012) Remember (2015) The Song of Names (2019) Crimes of the Future (2022)

Television credits Bordertown (78 episodes, Family Channel, 1988–1994) Night Heat (96 episodes, CBS, 1985–1989) E.N.G. (96 episodes, 1988–1994) Counterstrike (66 episodes, USA Network, 1990–1993) North of 60 (90 episodes, 1994–1998) Power Play (26 episodes, 1998–2000) Due South (68 episodes, CBS, 1994–1998) Rise of the Raven (10 episodes, 2025)