Lionel Chetwynd

English-born Canadian–American screenwriter, motion picture and television film director and producer

January 29, 1940 (84 years old)

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Varian's War

Can. 2000. Biography by Lionel Chetwynd with William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Matt Craven. In 1940, the American journalist Varian Fry undertook to save European artists, intellectuals and scientists threatened by the Nazis.

Runtime: 120 min.

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Tom Clancy's Netforce

U.S. 1999. Science-fiction by Robert Lieberman with Scott Bakula, Joanna Going, Judge Reinhold. In 2005, an FBI agent investigates the murder of a colleague who ran an Internet crime division.

Runtime: 154 min.

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So Proudly We Hail

U.S. 1990. Social drama by Lionel Chetwynd with Edward Herrmann, David Soul, Chad Lowe. Three unemployed youths and a disillusioned college professor join a neo-Nazi movement led by a charismatic leader.

Runtime: 90 min.

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The Hanoi Hilton

U.S. 1987. War drama by Lionel Chetwynd with Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey Jones, Paul Le Mat. An American commander taken prisoner in Hanoi is subjected to the cruelty of his torturers.

Runtime: 123 min.

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Children in the Crossfire

U.S. 1984. Drama by George Schaefer with James Norris, Grainne Clarke, Peter Gilroy. The difficulties and joys experienced by four young Northern Irish men who stay with two American families.

Runtime: 100 min.

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Quintet

U.S. 1978. Science-fiction by Robert Altman with Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Bibi Andersson.

Runtime: 117 min.

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Two Solitudes

Can. 1977. Social drama by Lionel Chetwynd with Jean-Pierre Aumont, Stacy Keach, Gloria Carlin. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the problems of a Quebec seigneur who partners up with an English-speaking industrialist.

Runtime: 116 min.

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Can. 1974. Dramatic comedy by Ted Kotcheff with Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden. In the Jewish milieu of Montreal, a cab driver

Runtime: 119 min.