Harry Rasky

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Harry Rasky (born May 9, 1928 in Toronto , † April 9, 2007 ibid) was a Canadian documentary producer and director.

Rasky attended Regal Road Public School and Oakwood Collegiate, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1949 . He then worked as a reporter for The Kirkland Lake News and then as a news editor for Radio CHUM in Toronto (1950) and CKEY (1951–1952). Later he was one of the founders of the news and documentary division of CBC television and then moved to New York. From 1957 he worked as a freelance documentary film producer, and in 1967 he founded Harry Rasky Productions .

He won an Emmy Award for Hall of Kings , a film about Westminster Abbey in London (with James Mason and Lynn Redgrave as speakers) . With the documentary Upon this Rock he won a prize at the Venice International Film Festival .

On his return to Toronto he worked for CBC television, for which he made a documentary every year from 1972 ( The Wit and World of George Bernard Shaw ) to 1995 ( Prophecy ), including many biographies of well-known artists such as Homage to Chagall : The Colors of Love (1975), The Song of Leonard Cohen (1981), and Stratasphere (on Teresa Stratas , 1983). Other films were An Invitation to a Royal Wedding (1972), Travels through Life with Leacock (1975), The Peking Man Mystery (1977), Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979), The Man Who Hid Anne Frank (1981), The Mystery of Henry Moore (1985), Karsh : The Searching Eye (1986), The Great Teacher: Northrop Frye (1989), The War against the Indians (1992), the autobiography Nobody Swings on Sunday: The Many Lives and Films of Harry Rasky (based on the book published in 1980, 2002) and Modigliani : Body and Soul (2005). Because of their mix of narrative, music, poetry, documentary and fictional elements, his films have often been referred to as "raskymentaries".

Over the course of his long career, he has received numerous awards, including ACTRA Awards for Tennessee Williams ' South (1973) and Next Year in Jerusalem (1974), a Directors Guild of America award for Homage to Chagall , a Genie Award nomination for Being Different (1981) and the Margaret Collier Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television . He also received an honorary degree from the University of Toronto and became a member of the Order of Canada .

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SURNAME Rasky, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian documentary producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2007
Place of death Toronto