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| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1956 - 1985 |
Ron Kelly (born 1929) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career with the CBC film unit, directing many short and documentary films between 1955 and 1964. He then worked for the National Film Board of Canada for a few years before moving on to work for Disney where he directed nature programs and the feature film King of the Grizzlies in 1970.
Awards and recognition
Ron Kelly received a Canadian Film Award for Best Direction in 1966 for his film The Gift and again in 1967 for an episode of the TV Series Wojeck entitled The Last Man in the World[1]. He was the only person to be win this award twice. Kelly's television productions of The Open Grave (a 1964 episode of the TV series Horizon) and The Megantic Outlaw (1970) were also winners of Canadian Film Awards.
Partial filmography
- King of the Grizzlies (1970)
- The Megantic Outlaw (1970)
- Waiting for Caroline (1967)
- The Last Man in the World (1966)
- Valley in a River (Documentary, 1966)
- The Gift (1965)
- Quo Vadis, Mrs. Lumb? (Documentary, 1965)
- Centennial Travellers (Documentary, (1965)
- The Open Grave (1964)