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William Fruet. Director: The House by the Lake. William Fruet was born on 1 January 1933 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for The House by the Lake (1976), The Egg Factory (2008) and Code Name: Eternity (2000).
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- Director, Writer, Producer
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- William Fruet
Cries in the Night, more popularly released as Funeral Home, [3] is a 1980 Canadian slasher film directed by William Fruet and starring Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey, Jack Van Evera, Alf Humphreys, and Harvey Atkin. The plot follows a teenager spending the summer at her grandmother's inn—formerly a funeral home —where guests begin to disappear.
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, William Fruet trained as an actor, playwright and director. He moved to Toronto in 1952, intending to find acting work, but had to supplement his occasional roles in CBC productions by working as a photographer.
Jan 1, 2022 · Born on this day (January 1) in 1933, William Fruet wrote and directed Wedding in White, Canada’s best film of 1972. In 1973, he sat down with me in Vancouver to talk about the importance of a domestic movie industry to the larger project of nation building.
Out of this commonplace story about ordinary people, the Canadian writer and director William Fruet has fashioned “Wedding in White,” a poignant, bitter, sometimes surprisingly funny slice-of-life. It really does recreate its wartime society; everything about it is right: the clothes, the dialog and particularly the prejudices and ignorance.
Budget. $3 million Canadian [ 1 ] Blue Monkey is a 1987 Canadian horror film directed by William Fruet and starring Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, Don Lake, Sandy Webster, Helen Slayton-Hughes, and John Vernon. The film centers on a group of doctors trapped in a quarantined hospital as a giant insect-like creature begins to ...
Director William Fruet. Year 1972. Run Time 103min. Genre Drama. A harsh and note-perfect portrayal of small-town Ontario during World War II.
