John Grierson
Production
April 26, 1898
Died February 19, 1972 (73 years old)
Kilmadock, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
10
Acting Credits
8
Directed
Biography
John Grierson (1898–1972) was a pioneering Scottish filmmaker and producer who shaped the documentary film movement, earning recognition as the father of British and Canadian documentary cinema. He famously coined the term "documentary" in 1926 and championed the idea that film should serve as a tool for social education and reform. As the driving force behind the British documentary movement, he founded the GPO Film Unit, which produced groundbreaking works like Night Mail (1936), and later pla...
Known For
Filmography
A Return to Memory
2024
as Self (archive sound)
Documenting John Grierson
2014
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
1990
as Self
6.7
Grierson
1973
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
I Remember, I Remember
1968
6
John Grierson
1959
as Himself
Rivers at Work
1958
as Narrator
The Face of Scotland
1938
as John Knox (voice)
7
Night Mail
1938
as Commentary
6.2
On the Fishing Banks of Skye
1935
as Narrator