David Adams (film producer)

David Telfer Adams (born September 5, 1923 in Toronto , † October 8, 2006 in Henderson , Nevada ) was a Canadian film producer .

Life

Adams served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II . He then studied in Vancouver at an art school and worked as a high school teacher in North Battleford , where he met his future wife, Lynn. He moved to California with her. Here they founded the Adams Productions film studio in 1959. Adams' first film That They May Live was made in 1959. Adams Productions was renamed Pyramid Films in 1962 and mainly produced documentaries and educational films. One of the studio's greatest successes in 1968 was the short documentary Why Man Creates , which won an Oscar and was later included in the National Film Registry .

For solo by Mike Hoover Adams became the producer 1973 Oscar nomination in the category Best Short Film . The following year, Adams and Nick Bosustow were nominated for another Oscar for The Legend of John Henry , this time in the Best Animated Short Film category .

Adams died of heart failure in 2006. Pyramid Films, renamed Pyramid Media, will be continued by Adams' daughter Denise Adams.

Filmography (selection)

• 1971: Basic Film Terms: A Visual Dictionary
• 1972: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• 1972: Solo
• 1973: The Legend of Paul Bunyan
• 1974: The Legend of John Henry
• 1979: Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World
• 1980: Dinosaur
• 1987: Dinosaurs!

Awards

• 1973: Oscar nomination , best short film , for solo
• 1974: Oscar nomination, Best Animated Short , for The Legend of John Henry

literature

• Pyramid Films . In: Geoff Alexander: Academic Films for the Classroom: A History . McFarland & Company, Jefferson 2010, pp. 117-118.

Web links

• David Adams in the Internet Movie Database (English)