John N. Smith
Canadian film director and screenwriter

John N. Smith

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Canadian film director and screenwriter
Gender:
Male
Places:
Canada
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Film directorScreenwriter
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
31 July 1943(Montreal)
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Spouse(s):
Cynthia Scott
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John N. Smith (born July 31, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career making documentary and short films before moving on to feature films and then finally working primarily in television. His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only won the latter.
He is best known for the 1995 drama Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and the TV movie The Boys of St. Vincent. From 1972 until his completion of The Boys of St. Vincent in 1992, Smith was a staff filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada.
He is married to filmmaker Cynthia Scott.

Selected filmography

  • Revolution's Orphans (short film, 1979)
  • The Masculine Mystique (1984)
  • Sitting in Limbo (1986)
  • Train of Dreams (1987)
  • The Boys of St. Vincent (TV movie, 1992)
  • Dieppe (TV miniseries, 1993)
  • Dangerous Minds (1995)
  • A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
  • Random Passage (TV miniseries, 2002)
  • Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
  • Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (TV miniseries, 2006)
  • The Englishman's Boy (TV miniseries, 2008)
  • Love and Savagery (2009)