Les Rose
Les Rose was a Canadian film and television director. He was most noted for the film Three Card Monte, for which he received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Director at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978.[1]
Rose began his career making documentary films for the National Film Board of Canada. Three Card Monte was his first commercial film. He subsequently directed the films Title Shot,[2] Hog Wild,[3] Gas and Isaac Littlefeathers, the television films Maintain the Right,[4] The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd[5] and Covert Action, and two episodes of Fraggle Rock.
References
[edit]- ^ Jay Scott, "Four films nominated for Etrogs". The Globe and Mail, August 24, 1978.
- ^ Jay Scott, "Title Shot missest both of its targets". The Globe and Mail, September 11, 1979.
- ^ Jay Scott, "Two more entries in gross-out stakes". The Globe and Mail, June 9, 1980.
- ^ Betty Swimmings, "RCMP drama misses mark". Ottawa Citizen, March 14, 1980.
- ^ Rick Groen, "Edwin Alonzo Boyd, a legend in his own mind: TV portrait of Canada's baddest bank-robber examines the fine line between myth and reality". The Globe and Mail, April 16, 1983.
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