BRUCE McDONALD
b. May 28, 1959 in Kingston, Ontario
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Bruce McDonald is a film and television director who also works as an editor, actor and producer. Born in Kingston, McDonald grew up in the Rexdale area of Toronto where he started making 8mm films. When he was 19 he entered his first films in the Toronto Super-8 Film Festival. Encouraged by that experience he went on to study film and photography at Ryerson Polytechnical in Toronto where he completed the short films Merge in 1980 and Let Me See two years later, which won the Norman Jewison Award for best student film at the 1982 Canadian National Exhibition. The short helped launch his professional career after it screened at the Toronto Festival of Festivals where his 1989 film, Roadkill won the award for Most Outstanding Canadian Film.
Watch our QuickTime movie of Bruce McDonald talking about the making of Pontypool.
Read our Take One interview with Bruce McDonald, originally published in 2004.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Merge (1980)
Let Me See (1982)
Knock! Knock! (1985)
Roadkill (1989)
Highway 61 (1991)
Dance Me Outside (1994)
Hard Core Logo (1996)
Platinum (TV-1997)
American Whiskey Bar (TV-1998)
Elimination Dance (1998)
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (TV-1998)
Road Songs: A Portrait of Robbie Robertson (TV-2001)
Picture Claire (2001)
The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004)
Gay Like Me? (2006)
MaximumRockNRoll (2007)
The Tracey Fragments (2007)
The Dark Room (TV-2007)
Pontypool (2008)
A Love Supreme (2009)
TV Series: (at least one episode):
The Ray Bradbury Theatre (1985)
The Hidden Room (1991)
Lonesome Dove (1992)
Liberty Street (1994)
Twitch City (1998)
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001, 2003, 2008)
Playmakers (2003)
This Is Wonderland (2004)
The Collector (2004)
Kevin Hill (2004)
The Tournament (2005)
Darcy's Wild Life (2005)
ReGenesis (2006)
Killer Wave (mini-series, 2006)
The Rawside of... (2008)
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