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Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood. April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
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The son of immigrants from Bulgaria,[1][2] after graduating in English Literature from the University of Toronto, Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with television still very much in its infancy in the country. Kotcheff was the youngest director on the staff of the CBC, where he worked for two years on shows such as General Motors Theatre before in 1958 leaving Canada to live and work in the United Kingdom. The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...
General Motors Theatre (also known as CBC Theatre and General Motors Presents) was a Canadian television anthology series, which ran on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation under its various titles from 1953 until 1961. ...
He was inspired by his compatriot Sydney Newman, who had been the Director of Drama at the CBC and had moved across to the UK to take up a similar position at ABC Television, one of the local franchise holders of the ITV network who also produced much of the nationally-networked programming for the channel. At the ABC, Newman oversaw as producer the popular Armchair Theatre anthology drama programme, and he employed Kotcheff as a director on this series, for which he directed several plays between 1958 and 1960. Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917—October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. ...
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Armchair Theatre was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and was intermittently resurrected at various points during the 1970s. ...
Kotcheff was responsible for helming some of the best-remembered instalments in the Armchair Theatre strand, although for very different reasons. Underground, transmitted on November 28, 1958 saw him having to cope with one of his actors, Gareth Jones, dying while in make-up between two of his scenes. As the play was being transmitted live, Kotcheff had to hastily improvise a way around the loss of one of his main cast, with Newman telling him to "shoot it like a football match", following whatever action happened on set with the improvising surviving cast members. More successfully, Kotcheff also directed the following year's No Trams to Lime Street by Welsh playwright Alun Owen, who later went on to write The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night in 1964. November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Gareth Jones (June 6, 1925 – November 28, 1958) was a British actor, chiefly remembered for his death. ...
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As well as directing for Armchair Theatre during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kotcheff also directed several productions for the theatre, and in 1962 directed his first feature film, Tiara Tahiti. He went on to direct other features during the decade, including Life at the Top (1965) and Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969). Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ...
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In 1971, he directed the Australian film Outback, which won much acclaim and was the Australian entry at the Cannes Film Festival. The same year he returned to television, directing the Play for Today production Edna, the Inebriate Woman for the BBC, which won him a British Academy Television Award for Best Director. In 2000, the play was voted one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century in a poll of industry professionals conducted by the British Film Institute. Cannes Film Festival logo. ...
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a one-off British television drama transmitted by the BBC under the Play for Today banner in 1971. ...
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In 1972, he returned home to Canada, where he directed several films including the adaptation of his friend and one-time roommate Mordecai Richler's novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. The film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival making it the first Canadian film to win an international award. He directed many other films throughout the 1970s and 80s, most in the United States, with perhaps the best-known being the Sylvester Stallone feature First Blood in 1982. Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. ...
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the fourth novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ...
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the world. ...
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In the 1990s he returned to directing for television, working on various American series such as The Red Shoe Diaries and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Kotcheff now lives in Beverley Hills with his wife and two children when he is not on the set of Law & Order in New York. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC...
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Joshua Then and Now is a 1985 film and a TV mini-series, adapted by Mordecai Richler from his semi-autobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now. ...
Uncommon Valor (1983) is a war film written by Joe Gayton and directed by Ted Kotcheff. ...
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First Blood is the first film featuring the character of troubled Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. ...
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 motion picture comedy/drama based upon the 1959 novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ...
The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the world. ...
Wake in Fright (also known as Outback) is a 1971 Australian film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasance and Chips Rafferty. ...
Life at the Top is a 1965 film made by Romulus Films and released by Columbia Pictures. ...
Tiara Tahiti 1962 is a Drama and Comedy movie starring James Mason and John Mills. ...
Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ...
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a one-off British television drama transmitted by the BBC under the Play for Today banner in 1971. ...
No Trams to Lime Street is a 1959 British television play, written by the Welsh playwright Alun Owen for the Armchair Theatre anthology strand. ...
External links - Canadian Film Encyclopedia [A publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]
- Internet Movie Database entry
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