John Grierson
Birthday
1898/04/26
Day of death
1972/02/19 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Kilmadock, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Also know as
约翰·格里尔逊
Biography
John Grierson (1898–1972) was a pioneering Scottish filmmaker and producer who shaped the documentary film movement, earning recognition as the father of British and Canadian documentary cinema. He famously coined the term "documentary" in 1926 and championed the idea that film should serve as a tool for social education and reform. As the driving force behind the British documentary movement, he founded the GPO Film Unit, which produced groundbreaking works like Night Mail (1936), and later pla...Read more
Acting
(2014) Documenting John Grierson
as ---
(1938) The Face of Scotland
as John Knox (voice)
(1990) Creative Process: Norman McLaren
as Self
(1935) On the Fishing Banks of Skye
as Narrator
(1936) Night Mail
as Commentary
(1958) Rivers at Work
as Narrator
(1959) John Grierson
as Himself
Hitchcock on Grierson
as Self
(2024) A Return to Memory
as Self (archive sound)
(1968) I Remember, I Remember
as ---
(1973) Grierson
as Self (archive footage)