Mort Ransen

Mort Ransen (1933-2021), born Moishe Socoransky in Montreal, the youngest of the four children of a Yiddish-speaking household that had come from Ukraine, left school after the ninth grade and went to study acting in New York. Hired by the National Film Board in the early sixties, he directed some twenty films there, including one shot with cameras entrusted to young people. He left the organisation in the mid-eighties and had his greatest success with a story set in the mines of Cape Breton. He died on Salt Spring Island, aged eighty-eight.

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• CinemaBayoMort Ransen · 1985Cinema