From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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Daniel Petrie Biography / Wiki
| Name | Daniel Petrie |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Glace Bay, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1920-11-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
| Deathday | 2004-08-22 |
Daniel Petrie Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Story of Lassie | Self | 1994-08-14 | Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many f… |
| Into the Night | Kalijak Director | 1985-02-22 | Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed’s having trouble staying alive…. |
Daniel Petrie Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Lifeguard | Director | 1976-07-23 | 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 mo… |
| Cocoon: The Return | Director | 1988-09-13 | 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 … |
| Fort Apache, the Bronx | Director | 1981-02-06 | 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 cal… |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Director | 1961-05-28 | 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 a… |
| Lassie | Director | 1994-07-22 | 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 o… |
| My Name Is Bill W. | Director | 1989-04-30 | 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 … |
| The Neptune Factor | Director | 1973-08-03 | When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger…. |
| The Dollmaker | Director | 1984-05-13 | During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying… |
| Six Pack | Director | 1982-07-16 | 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 quick… |
| Moon of the Wolf | Director | 1972-09-26 | After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf…. |
| Wild Iris | Director | 2001-01-01 | A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband…. |
| The Bay Boy | Director | 1984-09-06 | A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a prie… |
| Rocket Gibraltar | Director | 1988-09-02 | 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. Howev… |
| Square Dance | Director | 1987-03-01 | An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth…. |
| Resurrection | Director | 1980-09-26 | 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. She becomes an … |
| Inherit the Wind | Director | 1999-05-29 | Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution…. |
| Mark Twain and Me | Director | 1991-11-22 | During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick…. |
| Mousey | Director | 1974-05-24 | A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife…. |
| The Execution of Raymond Graham | Director | 1985-11-17 | 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 se… |
| The Bramble Bush | Director | 1960-02-24 | A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend…. |
| The Main Attraction | Director | 1962-11-01 | An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn’t commit hides out in a circus…. |
| Walter and Henry | Director | 2001-06-10 | 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. When Walter has a … |
| Returning Home | Director | 1975-04-30 | The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life…. |
| Stolen Hours | Director | 1963-10-02 | A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor. A reworking of the 1939 Bette Davis film “Dark Victory”, director Daniel Petrie’s … |
| Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking | Director | 1976-10-06 | A biography of President Harry S. Truman…. |
| Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Director | 1977-03-13 | The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House…. |
| Kissinger and Nixon | Director | 1995-12-10 | 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 Vi… |
| Silent Night, Lonely Night | Director | 1969-12-16 | Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a me… |
| The Spy with a Cold Nose | Director | 1966-12-19 | 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 int… |
| Buster and Billie | Director | 1974-08-21 | Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance…. |
| The Betsy | Director | 1978-02-02 | Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier… |
| A Howling in the Woods | Director | 1971-11-05 | 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 mys… |
| A Town Torn Apart | Director | 1992-11-30 | 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 co… |
| The Gun and the Pulpit | Director | 1974-04-03 | 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. F… |
| The Idol | Director | 1966-02-01 | A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences…. |
| Bang the Drum Slowly | Director | 1956-09-26 | 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 … |
| A Wind from the South | Director | 1955-09-14 | 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. An Ame… |
| The Assistant | Director | 1997-01-01 | Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Mala… |
| Calm at Sunset | Director | 1996-12-01 | The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fis… |
| Wuthering Heights | Director | 1958-05-09 | Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting reveng… |
| The Murder Club | Director | 1950-10-31 | Based on the short story by Ben Hecht…. |
| The Stingiest Man in Town | Director | 1956-12-23 | This is a musical version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4 … |
| Monday After the Miracle | Director | 1998-11-15 | 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… |
| Half a Lifetime | Director | 1986-01-01 | A regular night of poker among for friends turns into a night full of conflict, accusations and self-examinations…. |
| Trouble Comes to Town | Director | 1973-01-11 | 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…. |
| The Sting of Death | Director | 1955-02-12 | Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun, Sybil) . Sidney Silchester, a coll… |
| The City | Director | 1971-05-17 | The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city…. |
| Seasons of Love | Director | 1999-03-07 | Sprawling tale spanning 50 years in the life of the fictional Linthorne family as seen through the eyes of the rugged head of the clan as he and his w… |
| The Quinns | Director | 1977-07-01 | A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. T… |
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Daniel Petrie Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Square Dance | Producer | 1987-03-01 | An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth…. |
| My Name Is Bill W. | Producer | 1989-04-30 | 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 … |
| Mark Twain and Me | Producer | 1991-11-22 | During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Bay Boy | Writer | 1984-09-06 | A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a prie… |
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