Giles Walker

Giles Walker is a Scottish-born Canadian film director.

Brief biography

Giles Walker was born in 1946 in Dundee, Scotland. He has since moved to Canada, where he has been involved in film and television writing, producing and directing since 1974.

He was on contract with the National Film Board of Canada in the 1980s and early 1990s, directing "alternative dramas" that combined dramatic and documentary film techniques.^[1]

Partial filmography

• The Masculine Mystique (1984) - co-writer, co-producer, co-director with John N. Smith
• 90 Days (1985) – writer, producer, director
• Ordinary Magic (1993) - director
• Never Too Late (1997) – director
• Little Men (1999) – director, 1 episode
• Blind Terror (2001) – director
• Tales from the Neverending Story (2001) – director, 2 episodes
• Fries with That? (2004, YTV) – director, 11 episodes
• Doctor*Ology (2007, Discovery Channel) – director, 2 episodes

References

1. Stukator, Angela (30 May 2013). "Pictures of age and ageing in Cynthia Scott's The Company of Strangers". In Eugene P. Walz. Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films. Rodopi. p. 239. ISBN 978-9042015982.

External links

• Giles Walker at IMDB
• Films by Giles Walker at the National Film Board of Canada