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Filmmaker · Canada

Stuart Legg

Died in 1988

Stuart Legg (1910-1988), born in London, studied at Cambridge and joined John Grierson's British documentary movement, at the Empire Marketing Board and then at the General Post Office film unit. Grierson brought him to Canada in 1939; there he went on to direct the two great wartime series of Canada's state film board, one instalment of which received the Academy Award for documentary in 1942, the first won by that organisation. Back in Britain in 1946, he continued in commissioned documentary, notably for Shell, before devoting himself to writing.

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