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Sidney Joseph Furie (born February 28, 1933) [1] is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s. Like his contemporaries Norman Jewison and Ted Kotcheff, he was one of the earliest Canadian directors to achieve mainstream critical ...
Sidney J. Furie is a Canadian-born director who has worked in various genres and countries for over five decades. He is known for films such as The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues, The Entity, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
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- Director, Writer, Producer
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sidney J. Furie
Sidney J. Furie. Director: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Toronto-born Sidney J. Furie has enjoyed an incredibly distinguished career that has spanned more than five decades. Having dabbled in every genre, Furie has directed films starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Rodney Dangerfield, Barbara Hershey, Gene Hackman, Donald ...
- February 28, 1933
Dec 3, 2007 · Furie, Sidney. Sidney Furie, film director (b at Toronto 28 Feb 1933). After training at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa, he worked at the CBC as a television writer and director from 1954 before striking off as an independent filmmaker with 2 low-budget features, A Dangerous Age (1957) and A Cool Sound from Hell (1958).
Sidney J. Furie is one of the most versatile, prolific and accomplished filmmakers working today. At the age of 83, he shows no signs of stopping. His work, beginning in the late 50s, has encompassed early, vivid, personal films in his native Canada (at a time when there was no Canadian film industry to speak of) (A DANGEROUS AGE, A COOL SOUND ...
Toronto-born Sidney J. Furie has enjoyed a distinguished career that has spanned over six decades. Having worked in every genre, Furie has directed films starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Rodney Dangerfield, Barbara Hershey, Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, Laurence Olivier, and countless others. He is most known for the espionage ...
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Aug 31, 2016 · Made at the end of the 1950s, when there were quite literally fewer than 10 fiction features made per year in English Canada, Sidney J. Furie's striking record of mid-century hipster Toronto was thought lost for decades, until Furie's intrepid biographer Daniel Kremer found a copy in the bowels of the British Film Institute, where it had been filed under the title The Beat Generation. The wait ...
