Harold Greenberg (January 11, 1930 - July 1, 1996) was a Canadianfilm producer. Born in Montreal Greenberg began working in a second-hand camera store when he was thirteen. He set up his own film and photography company and made a fortune by obtaining the exclusive rights to footage from Expo 67 in Montreal. In 1973 he acquired Astral Communications and it became one of the leading film production companies in Canada, producing such films as Porky's, the most successful Canadian film ever and the critically acclaimed The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. In the 1980s Greenberg became heavily involved in pay TV and started The Movie Network and other pay per view channels. Astral communications also distribute many international programs in Canada.
Greenberg died in 1996 and his brother Ian Greenberg took Harolds place as head of Astral.
He was also a noted philanthropist and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Greenberg's fame rests in part on his seminal contributions to synchronic linguistics and the quest to identify linguistic universals.
Greenberg is also widely known and respected for his development of a new classification system for African languages, which he published in 1963.
In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific languages super-family, which groups together the Papuan languages (several language families spoken in Papua New Guinea and nearby regions which are not Austronesian) together with the native languages of Tasmania and the Andaman Islands, but excludes Australian Aboriginal languages.
Greenberg, Harold, administrator, producer (b at Montréal, 11 Jan 1930; d there 1 July1996).
The path of HaroldGreenberg's career took him from a second-hand camera shop which he entered at age thirteen, to Astral Communications where he worked as president and manager until his death.
The rise of HaroldGreenberg truly began in 1967 when he acquired the exclusive rights to sell films on the site of EXPO 67 as well as photographic rights in the pavilions.
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