Norman Jewison
Acting · Directing · Production · Crew
Born July 21, 1926, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (July 21, 1926 - January 20, 2024) was a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Moonstruck (1987), The Hurricane (1999) and The Statement (2003). Jewison addressed important social and political issues throughout his directing and producing career, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences.
Filmography
- 2019Style and Substance: Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby
- 2017The River of My Dreams
- 2015Making of The Russians are Coming
- 2015Superstars: The Documentary
- 2003The Statement — Producer, Director
- 2001Dinner with Friends — Director, Executive Producer
- 2001Walter and Henry — Executive Producer
- 2000Return to the Arena: The Making of 'Rollerball'
- 2000Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
- 1999Funny Is Money — Director
- 1999The Hurricane — Producer, Director
- 1996Bogus — Director, Producer
- 1996The Stupids — TV Director
- 1995Dance Me Outside — Executive Producer
- Picture Windows — Director
- 1995Picture Windows: Armed Response — Executive Producer
- 1995Picture Windows: Language of the Heart — Executive Producer
- 1995Picture Windows: Soir Bleu — Director, Executive Producer
- 1994Only You — Producer, Director
- 1994Picture Windows: Song of Songs — Executive Producer
- 1993Geronimo — Executive Producer
- 1991Highway 61 — Thanks
- 1991Other People's Money — Director, Producer
- 1989In Country — Director, Producer
- 1989The January Man — Producer
- 1987Moonstruck — Producer, Director
- 1985Agnes of God — Director, Producer
- 1984A Soldier's Story — Director, Producer
- 1984Iceman — Producer
- 1982Best Friends — Director, Producer
- 1980The Dogs of War — Executive Producer
- 1979...And Justice for All — Producer, Director
- 1978F.I.S.T. — Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 1975From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle
- 1975Rollerball — Director, Producer
- 1974Billy Two Hats — Producer
- 1973Jesus Christ Superstar — Man (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1971Fiddler on the Roof — Director, Producer
- 1970The Landlord — Wedding Guest in Opening Shot (uncredited), Producer
- 1969Gaily, Gaily — Director, Producer
- 1968The Thomas Crown Affair — Director, Producer
- 1967In the Heat of the Night — Director
- 1966The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! — Director, Producer
- 1965The Art of Love — Director
- 1965The Cincinnati Kid — Director
- 1964Send Me No Flowers — Director
- 1963The Thrill of It All — Director
- 196240 Pounds of Trouble — Director
- 1962The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe — Director
- 1962The Judy Garland Show — Producer, Director
- 1961The Million Dollar Incident — Director
- 1960The Fabulous Fifties — Director
- The Big Party — Director
- 1949Canadian Pacific — Joe Podge (uncredited)
Appearances as themselves (30)
- 2024Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand — Self
- 2022Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story — Self - Interviewee
- 2022Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen — self
- 2021Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self
- 2019Hal — Self
- 2019Sid & Judy — Self (voice)
- 2014I Am Steve McQueen — Self
- 2012Pablo — Self
- 2008A Love Story of Today — Self
- 2008A Special Kind of Love — Self
- 2008Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound — Self
- 2008Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth — Self
- 2008Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's — Self
- 2006Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family — Self
- 2005Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool — Self
- 2004Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing — Self
- 2004Judy Garland: By Myself — Self - Executive Producer (voice)
- 2004Tell Them Who You Are — Self
- 2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories — Self
- 2002Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film — Self (uncredited)
- 2000The Man on Lincoln's Nose — Self
- 1998An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn — Self (uncredited)
- 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
- 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
- Inside the Actors Studio — Self
- 1990Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge — Self
- Film '72 — Self
- 1971Norman Jewison, Film Maker — Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
- The Oscars — Self