Phillip Borsos
Phillip Borsos ( born May 5, 1953 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, † February 2nd 1995 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a Canadian director, actor, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Borsos attended high school in Maple Ridge. At this time he earned his first 16mm film camera. After the graduation, he studied at the Banff Centre School for Fine Arts and the Vancouver School of Art During his studies he completed an apprenticeship in a film laboratory in Vancouver. In 1976 he founded Mercury Pictures and produced in the following years, three short films. The resulting 1979 documentary Nails has been nominated for an Oscar in 1980. In addition, he was awarded the Genie Award.
After his Oscar nomination Borsos made his first feature-length film, The Grey Fox starring Richard Farnsworth in the lead role. He received for the film 1982 International Press Award at the World Film Festival and the following year a Genie Award. In 1985 he directed two feature films, the Disney production When dreams were true and the thriller The Mean Season with Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway in the lead roles. His 1990 incurred under major production difficulties movie Bethune - A doctor becomes a hero on the life of Norman Bethune with Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren came only a few years later in the leading roles in the cinema; and his planned film adaptation of John Irving's The Cider contribution came on the planning status never out. In the credits of the realized by Lasse Hallström 1999 film of the same is his thought. In addition to his work as a director, screenwriter and producer, he was also seen occasionally as an actor in smaller film roles, including Tootsie, LISA - Weird Science, and Shadow and the Curse of the Khan.
During the filming of his latest film, Dangerous Wilderness, 1994 was diagnosed with leukemia him. After a failed stem cell transplant, he succumbed to the disease in the spring of 1995 at the age of 41 years.