DOCTV.COM - Key Persons


Agnes Macphail M.

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Editor
  • Writer / Co - Producer / Co - Exec Producer

Buzz Beurling

Job Titles:
  • Co - Producer / Co - Exec Producer

C.D. Howe, Minister

Job Titles:
  • Everything Director / Writer
A biographical portrait of one of Canada's most powerful politicians. Location direction and production by Thomas Howe.

CBC Sunday Night

Job Titles:
  • Co - Exec Producer

Eve Lambart

Job Titles:
  • Portrait Writer
One hour television portrait of the film animator, Eve Lambart. Produced by the NFB.

Francis Rattenbury

Job Titles:
  • Architect

Hugh MacLennan

Job Titles:
  • Portrait of a Writer
  • Writer / Director / Producer

Janice Brown

Job Titles:
  • Biography and Filmography
Prime Cut Editing Services, whose editing facilities contain state of the art digital systems for off-line television editing, was established in 1985 by Janice Brown and is responsible for supervising all editing of DocTV and Duncan Productions' projects. It also functions as an independent editing house. Rates are available on demand.

Kurt Browning

Job Titles:
  • Life on the Edge Writer / Co - Director
A CTV hour on the four years between the 1988 and 1992 Olympics and the life of Kurt Browning, World Champion Figure Skater. Produced by Great North.

Ma Murray

Job Titles:
  • Blood Writer / Co - Exec Producer

Margaret Laurence

Job Titles:
  • First Lady of Manawaka Writer / Director

Percy Williams

Job Titles:
  • Running Out of Time Producer / Editor
  • Running Out of Time Writer / Co - Exec Producer

Rattenbury Writer

Job Titles:
  • Director / Co - Producer / Co - Exec Producer
Pilot episode for HISTORY Television's Faces of History series on the life and death of architect Francis Rattenbury.

Ray Bradbury

Job Titles:
  • American Icon Writer / Director / Co - Producer
Ray Bradbury: American Icon Writer/Director/Co-Producer One hour portrait of the American Science Fiction writer for USA NETWORK and WIC. With Andrew Thomson.

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan came to Canada from Scotland in 1967 to attend the world's fair in Montreal. He worked as a staff journalist with the Ottawa Journal and the Montreal Gazette before moving to the CBC in Montreal where he wrote and produced radio drama and documentary. He moved to television in 1972 and two years later left CBC to join Donald Brittain at the National Film Board of Canada where he initiated and co-produced the Oscar nominated feature documentary, Volcano, An Enquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry . During the next ten years Duncan worked at the NFB in documentary, drama and specialised IMAX projects (see filmography). Duncan Productions Inc. was incorporated in 1978 and in 1989 moved from Montreal to Vancouver. Since that move Duncan has written, produced or directed television specials for, and has a working relationship with, most major Canadian networks. Duncan has four children, Keiron, Katrina, Jessica and Sarah. He is married to the renowned television and film editor, Janice Brown.

W.A.C. Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Co - Producer / Co - Exec Producer

W.O. Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Novelist in Hiding Writer / Director