Phillip Borsos

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Phillip Borsos (born May 5, 1953 in Hobart , Tasmania , Australia , † February 2, 1995 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian director , actor , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Borsos attended High School in Maple Ridge . It was around this time that he acquired his first 16mm film camera . After graduating from school, he first studied at the Banff Center School for Fine Arts and the Vancouver School of Art . In parallel to his studies, he completed training in a film laboratory in Vancouver. In 1976 he founded Mercury Pictures and produced three short films in the years that followed . The 1979 documentary Nails was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 . He was also awarded the Genie Award .

After his Oscar nomination, Borsos made his first full-length feature film, The Gray Fox with Richard Farnsworth in the lead role. He received the International Press Award at the World Film Festival in 1982 and the Genie Award the following year. In 1985 he directed two feature films, the Disney production If Dreams Were True and the thriller The Murderous Paradise with Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway in the leading roles. His feature film Bethune - A Doctor Becomes a Hero about the life of Norman Bethune with Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren in the leading roles, was made in 1990 with great production difficulties and was only released a few years later; and his planned film adaptation of John Irving's God's Work & Devil's Contribution never came out of the planning status. He is remembered in the credits of the film of the same name made by Lasse Hallström in 1999 . In addition to his work as a director, screenwriter and producer, he was occasionally seen as an actor in smaller film roles, including Tootsie , LISA - The bright madness and Shadow and the curse of Khan .

He was diagnosed with leukemia in 1994 while filming his last film, Dangerous Wilderness . After a failed stem cell transplant , he succumbed to the disease in the spring of 1995 at the age of 41.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1976: Cooperage
  • 1978: Spartree
  • 1979: Nails
  • 1982: The Gray Fox
  • 1985: If Dreams Were True (One Magic Christmas)
  • 1985: The Mean Season (The Mean Season)
  • 1992: Bethune : The Making of a Hero
  • 1995: Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

play

production

  • 1976: Cooperage
  • 1980: The Night Before the Morning After
  • 1985: If Dreams Were True (One Magic Christmas)

script

  • 1985: If Dreams Were True (One Magic Christmas)
  • 1995: Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

Awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Borsos, Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobart , Tasmania , Australia
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1995
Place of death Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada