John Spotton Net Worth

John Spotton Net Worth is
$13 Million

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John Spotton (January 1, 1927 - March 3, 1991) was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada.Spotton was a versatile artist whose variously was a director, producer, cinematographer and editor best known for his role in developing Direct Cinema genre of documentary and in the application of those techniques in narrative fiction films, in particular Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) for which was cinematographer and editor.An early member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC), Spotton briefly working as a cameraman for a private company, joined the NFB in 1949 and worked there for the rest of his life with the exception of a two-year period in the 1970s when he worked with Potterton Productions. He was executive director of the NFB's Ontario Centre from 1982 until 1988.He drowned at the age of sixty-four while on vacation in Cuba. The NFB's John Spotton Theatre in Toronto was named for him.

Date Of Birth1927-01-01
Died1991-03-03
Place Of BirthToronto, Ontario, Canada
ProfessionCinematographer, Producer, Editor

Cinematographer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Circus World1974Documentary short
Kainai1973Documentary short
Pillar of Wisdom1970Documentary short
Memorandum1967Documentary
High Steel1966Short documentary
Ybarra1966
Two Men of Montreal1965Documentary
Buster Keaton Rides Again1965Documentary
Legault's Place1965Short documentary
Sanchez1965
The Hutterites1964Documentary short
Nobody Waved Good-bye1964photography
Rivera1964
The Most1963Documentary short
Runner1962Documentary short
The Days of Whiskey Gap1961Short
Circle of the Sun1961Short documentary
Railroaders: Revised1960Short
Fishermen1959Short documentary
Railroaders1958Short documentary
Treasure of the Forest1958Short documentary
Log Drive1958Short
The Man on the Assembly Line1958Short
Aural Null1957Documentary short
Battalion Intelligence Section1957Short
Canadian Profile1957
Feathers in the Wind1957Short
The Jet Beacon Let-Down1957Short documentary
The Standard Range Approach1957Short documentary
What Do You Think About... Being Different1957Short
Designed for Living1956Short
Alcoholism1955Documentary short
Community Responsibilities1955Short
Grain Handling in Canada1955Short
Leaving It to the Experts1955Short
Aviation Medicine1954Short documentary
College in the Wilds1954Short documentary
Eye Witness No. 671954Short documentary
Frontier College1954Short documentary
Javanese Dancing1954Short documentary
Salt Cod1954Short
Story of a Newspaper1954Short documentary
The Doll Factory1954Short documentary
Forage Harvesting1953Documentary short
Royal Canadian Ordonance Corps: Field Operations1953Documentary short
Security Depends on You1953Short documentary
Surface Silos1953Documentary short
The Story of Peter and the Potter1953Short
Eye Witness No. 391952Documentary short
Trade Fair1952Short documentary
Fighting Forest Fires with Hand Tools1951Documentary short
Sing with the Commodores No. 11951Short
Sing with the Commodores No. 21951Short
Sing with the Commodores No. 31951Short

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Village of Idiots1999Short producer
Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Shaping Reality1993Documentary producer
Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - The Candid Eye?1993Documentary producer
Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - The Politics of Truth1993Documentary producer
Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Voices of Experience, Voices for Change Part 11993Documentary producer
Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Voices of Experience, Voices for Change Part 2. The Poetry of Motion1993Documentary producer
Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - What Is a Documentary? Ways of Storytelling1993Documentary producer
Peep and the Big Wide World1988Short executive producer
No Way! Not Me1987Documentary short executive producer
Dad's House, Mom's House1985Documentary executive producer
The Hospital1985Short producer
The Umpire1985Short producer
Final Offer1985TV Movie documentary executive producer
Pitchmen1985Documentary executive producer
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community1984Documentary producer
Prisoners of Debt: Inside the Global Banking Crisis1984Documentary producer
Meet the Martins1979Short producer
Viking Visitors to North America1979Documentary short producer
Of Many People1970Documentary short producer
Pilgrimage1958Short producer

Editor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Of Many People1970Documentary short
After Eve1967Documentary short
Memorandum1967Documentary
The Forest1966Short
The Long Haul Men1966Short documentary
Buster Keaton Rides Again1965Documentary
The Edge of the Barrens1964Documentary short
Nobody Waved Good-bye1964
Lonely Boy1963Documentary short
The Days of Whiskey Gap1961Short
I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling1960Short documentary
City Out of Time1959Short documentary
The Back-breaking Leaf1959Short documentary

Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
A Pinto for the Prince1979Documentary short
Have I Ever Lied to You Before?1976Documentary
Activator One1969Documentary
Memorandum1967Documentary
Never a Backward Step1966Documentary
The Forest1966Short
Buster Keaton Rides Again1965Documentary
The Railrodder1965Short uncredited

Camera Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
A Day in June1958Short cameraman

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Donald Brittain: Filmmaker1995Documentary acknowledgment
The World Is Watching1988Documentary thanks

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1966Canadian Film AwardCanadian Film AwardsBest General InformationBuster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
1966Lion of San MarcoVenice Film FestivalMemorandum (1967)
1966CIDALC AwardVenice Film FestivalBuster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
1964Canadian Film AwardCanadian Film AwardsBest Black-and-White Cinematography (Non-Feature)The Hutterites (1964)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1967Flaherty Documentary AwardBAFTA AwardsBuster Keaton Rides Again (1965)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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