Mort Ransen

Mort Ransen (August 16, 1933 – September 4, 2021) was a Canadian film and television director and
screenwriter, best known for his Genie Award-winning 1995 film Margaret's Museum.[1]

Ransen was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was educated at the High School of Montreal. He began his
career as an actor and theatre director, later becoming a director and producer of documentary films for the
National Film Board.[2] He later left the NFB to work on his first dramatic feature film, Bayo. He has also
directed television, including an episode of Street Legal and three films in the Shades of Love series of
romance films.

Ransen was a nominee for Best Director, and winner of Best Screenplay with his cowriter Gerald Wexler,
at the 16th Genie Awards for Margaret's Museum.

Due to the effects of dementia, Ransen chose to die with medical assistance in Salt Spring Island, British
Columbia on September 4, 2021.[3]

Contents
Filmography
Feature films
Documentaries
Television
References
External links

Filmography

Feature films
Running Time (1974)
Bayo (1985)
Falling Over Backwards (1990)
Margaret's Museum (1995)
Touched (1999)
Ah...the Money, the Money, the Money (2001)
Bastards (2003)

Documentaries
The Teacher: Authority or Automaton? (1961)
Jacky Visits the Zoo (1962)
 Among Fish (1964)
Zero Point One (1964)
The Transition (1964)
The Inner Man (1964)
Fighting Fit (1964)
John Hirsh: A Portrait of a Man and a Theatre (1965)
Labour College (1966)
No Reason to Stay (1966)
The Circle (1967)
Christopher's Movie Matinée (1968)
Falling from Ladders (1969)
You Are on Indian Land (1969) (recredited to Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell in 2016)[4]
The Burden They Carry (1970)
Untouched and Pure (1970)
The Three I's (1970)
Overspill (1970)
Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky (1985)

Television
Street Legal, episode "A Matter of Honour" (1987)
Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet (1987)
Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear (1988)
Shades of Love: Tangerine Taxi (1988)

References
1. Mort Ransen (http://www.northernstars.ca/directorsmz/ransen_mort.html) Archived (https://w
eb.archive.org/web/20110907055023/http://www.northernstars.ca/directorsmz/ransen_mort.
html) 2011-09-07 at the Wayback Machine at northernstars.ca.
2. Mort Ransen (https://archive.today/20120717073059/http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCL
OPEDIA/content/bios/mort-ransen) at the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian
Film Encyclopedia.
3. Cordasco, Lisa (15 September 2021). " 'Margaret's Museum' director opts for medical
assistance in dying on Salt Spring Island" (https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/marg
arets-museum-director-opts-for-medical-assistance-in-dying-on-salt-spring-island).
Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
4. Tracey, Andrew (24 February 2017). "Now Reconciled: Nearly 50 years later, the director of
a landmark First Nations film gets his rightful recognition" (https://web.archive.org/web/2017
0729185043/http://press.tiff.net/the-review/now-reconciled/). The Review. Toronto
International Film Festival. Archived from the original (http://press.tiff.net/the-review/now-rec
onciled/) on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.

External links
Mort Ransen (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710372/) at IMDb
Watch films directed by Ransen at NFB.ca (https://www.nfb.ca/directors/mort-ransen/)
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