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Christopher Chapman
b. January 25, 1927 in Toronto, Ontario
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Christopher Chapman is a writer, director and cinematographer whose early films concentrated on nature and the environment. The son of distinguished architect Alfred Chapman, who designed the Royal Ontario Museum, the Prince’s Gates and the original Toronto Star building, Christopher Chapman began his career as a designer in advertising but moved into film in 1953 when he was 26 years old. His first film, The Seasons, won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year, the first of six Canadian Film Awards he would win in a long career. He is also the recipient of an Oscar, a Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal, the 1977 Jubilee Medal and the Order of Canada. Chapman served as president of both the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Directors Guild of Canada.
These are his credits as a Director.
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Features & TV Movies:
The Seasons (1953)
Quetico (1958)
Village in the Dust (1961)
Saguenay (1962)
The Enduring Wilderness, 1963 (cinematographer)
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell (co-director, 1963)
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 2: The City - Cars or People? (co-director, 1963)
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 3: The City and Its Region (co-director, 1963)
Magic Molecule (co-director, 1964)
The Persistent Seed (1964)
A Place to Stand (1967)
Impressions: 1670-1970 (1970)
Ontario (1970)
Toronto the Good (1973)
Volcano (1973)
A Sense of Humus (1976)
Saskatchewan: Land Alive (1980)
Kelly (1981)
Pyramid of Roses (1982)
The Wilderness (1984)
Crown 3 D (1986)
USIA Expo 86 (1986)
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