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Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 - August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and movie director.
Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne (née Campbell) and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. One of his most famous credits was 1961's A Raisin in the Sun, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed Buster and Billie (1974), the Academy Award-nominated Resurrection (1980), Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) and Cocoon: The Return (1988). He directed well-known television movies such as Sybil and Eleanor and Franklin, and produced a 1999 remake of Inherit the Wind. His films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts (such as 1978's The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall), and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder (Square Dance) and Kiefer Sutherland (The Bay Boy).
Petrie died of cancer at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his sons, Daniel and Donald, who are both well-known writers/directors.
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01 January 1997
Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural.
19 December 1966
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.
01 February 1966
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
17 May 1971
The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.
31 October 1950
Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.
01 July 1977
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains.
23 December 1956
This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul.
02 October 1963
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
22 February 1985
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana.
16 July 1982
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped.
22 July 1994
On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver.
14 September 1955
Set in Ireland, the story centers on a day in the life of Shevawn, an innocent, 30-year-old dreamer who is domineered by her innkeeper brother.
13 May 1984
During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit.
14 August 1994
Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many figures involved with the Lassie films or television series.
29 April 1975
The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life.
10 June 2001
Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot.
15 November 1998
Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their close relationship is threatened when John Macy, a caring young professor at the college Helen attends, comes between them.
26 September 1980
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people.
30 April 1989
Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism.
01 March 1987
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
13 September 1988
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
10 December 1995
A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the Vietnam War and Nixon was grandstanding politically.
24 February 1960
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
09 May 1958
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights.
23 July 1976
Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother.
06 February 1981
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country.
02 February 1978
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson.
28 May 1961
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man.
21 August 1974
Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance.
26 September 1972
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
01 November 1962
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
02 September 1988
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect.
26 June 1973
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
06 September 1984
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest?
29 May 1999
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
22 November 1991
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.
05 November 1971
A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night.
10 January 1973
A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.
01 December 1996
Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
16 December 1969
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude.
05 October 1976
A biography of President Harry S. Truman.
24 May 1974
A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.
20 July 1986
A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.
03 April 1974
In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush.
01 January 2001
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
13 March 1977
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
26 September 1956
A pitcher of a major-league baseball team finds out that his teammate and pal is desperately trying to hide that he is dying of a terminal disease so the owner won't find out and fire him.
17 November 1985
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately seek a reprieve.
30 November 1992
An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great controversy.
08 October 1972
An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to solve a tricky mystery.
12 February 1955
Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun, Sybil) .
