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Daniel Petrie
Glace Bay, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 - August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and movie director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, No…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 - August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and movie director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne (née Campbell) and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. One of his most famous credits was 1961's A Raisin in the Sun, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed Buster and Billie (1974), the Academy Award-nominated Resurrection (1980), Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) and Cocoon: The Return (1988). He directed well-known television movies such as Sybil and Eleanor and Franklin, and produced a 1999 remake of Inherit the Wind. His films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts (such as 1978's The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall), and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder (Square Dance) and Kiefer Sutherland (The Bay Boy). Petrie died of cancer at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his sons, Daniel and Donald, who are both well-known writers/directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Petrie, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2001
Walter and Henry
Movie Director
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2001
Wild Iris
Movie Director
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1999
Inherit the Wind
Movie Director
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1998
Monday After the Miracle
Movie Director
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1997
The Assistant
Movie Director
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1996
Calm at Sunset
Movie Producer
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1995
Kissinger and Nixon
Movie Director
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1994
The Story of Lassie
Movie Self
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1994
Lassie
Movie Director
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1992
A Town Torn Apart
Movie Director
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1991
Mark Twain and Me
Movie Producer
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1989
My Name Is Bill W.
Movie Producer
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1988
Cocoon: The Return
Movie Director
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1988
Rocket Gibraltar
Movie Director
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1987
Square Dance
Movie Producer
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1986
Half a Lifetime
Movie Director
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1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Movie Director
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1985
Into the Night
Movie Kalijak Director
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1984
The Bay Boy
Movie Director
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1984
The Dollmaker
Movie Director
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1982
Six Pack
Movie Director
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1981
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Movie Director
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1980
Resurrection
Movie Director
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1978
The Betsy
Movie Director
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1977
The Quinns
Movie Director
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1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Movie Director
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1976
Sybil
TV show Director
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1976
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
Movie Director
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1976
Lifeguard
Movie Director
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1976
Eleanor and Franklin
TV show Director
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1975
Returning Home
Movie Director
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1974
Buster and Billie
Movie Director
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1974
Mousey
Movie Director
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1974
The Gun and the Pulpit
Movie Director
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1973
The Neptune Factor
Movie Director
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1973
Trouble Comes to Town
Movie Director
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1972
The Century Turns
Movie Director
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1972
Moon of the Wolf
Movie Director
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1972
Banyon
TV show Director
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1972
The Waltons
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