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Donald Alexander Haldane (December 3, 1914 – September 21, 2008) was a Canadian film and television director, most noted as the director of the films Nikki: Wild Dog of the North and Drylanders.
Background
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in the small town of Olds, he was raised principally by his mother after his father returned from military service in World War II suffering from severe shell shock. After having acted in school drama productions in high school he trained as a teacher before going to Yale Drama School in the late 1930s to study theatre direction. After returning to Canada he began working as a theatre director in Montreal, where after befriending Bill Trott, a Black Canadian tailor, he helped Trott to establish the Negro Theatre Guild, the city's first Black theatre company.
He enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1942 to serve in World War II, but spent his entire military career posted to CFB Borden without ever being shipped overseas to fight. He then returned to the United States to study filmmaking in New York City, and made a number of sponsored advertising films there before returning to Canada in 1954 to begin his long association with the National Film Board of Canada.
Career
He directed a large number of films for the NFB, including the On the Spot and Perspective series, and established the Westminister Films studio with partners Lee Gordon (his wife) and Roy Krost. Associated primarily with documentary films in his early career, he got his first chance to direct a feature film when Westminister Films partnered with Disney on Nikki: Wild Dog of the North, and directed Drylanders for the NFB the following year. With both the NFB and Westminister, he continued throughout his career to work on documentaries, feature films and television productions.
He was a five-time Canadian Film Award winner for his work, receiving awards at the 8th Canadian Film Awards in 1956 for Saskatchewan Traveller, at the 12th Canadian Film Awards in 1960 for Bad Medicine, at the 16th Canadian Film Awards in 1964 for Land on the Move, at the 21st Canadian Film Awards in 1969 for Rye on the Rocks, and at the 23rd Canadian Film Awards in 1971 for Shebandowan: A Summer Place.
In 2003 he was awarded the Directors Guild of Canada's Distinguished Service Award for his lifetime contributions to Canadian filmmaking. The award was later renamed the Don Haldane Distinguished Service Award in his honour.
Filmography
= Films
== Television
=References
External links
Don Haldane at IMDb
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- List of Western films of the 1960s
