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Arthur Hammond
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Arthur Hammond was a British-born Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer, and executive who spent more than two decades at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). After immigrati…
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Arthur Hammond was a British-born Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer, and executive who spent more than two decades at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). After immigrating to Canada in the mid-1950s, he transitioned from publishing to film, joining the NFB in Montreal during the 1960s. As a director and producer, Hammond specialized in social, corporate, and political documentaries. He is best known for co-directing the acclaimed media profile Never a Backward Step (1966)—which won the Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Length Documentary—and directing the landmark six-part CBC television series Corporation (1975) and the multi-part historical series Imperfect Union: Canadian Labour and the Left (1989). Hammond also served as the NFB's Director of English Programming before retiring to Toronto, where he lived until his death at age 92.
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1982
Kubota
Movie Executive Producer
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1982
Taxi!
Movie Executive Producer
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1981
After the Axe
Movie Executive Producer
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1981
The Devil at Your Heels
Movie Executive Producer
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1979
Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
Travel Log
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
Song of the Paddle
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
The Art of the Possible
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
Meditation in Motion
Movie Producer
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1977
Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention
Movie Executive Producer
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1973
Real Estate
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1973
Growth
Movie Writer
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1973
Corporation
TV show Creator
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1968
This Land
Movie Director
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1966
Never a Backward Step
Movie Director
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1943
Clancy Street Boys
Movie Assistant Director
