Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff was born on 7 April 1931 in Toronto, into a family from Bulgaria, and spoke Bulgarian before English according to the Australian film archive. A graduate in English literature of the University of Toronto, he began in Canadian television, then worked in England from 1957, for television and the theatre. He then made films in Canada, where one of his films won the Golden Bear at Berlin in 1974, and in the United States, where in 1982 he directed the first film of an action series. He died on 10 April 2025, in Mexico.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaWake in FrightTed Kotcheff · 1971Cinema
• CinemaThe Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzTed Kotcheff · 1974Cinema