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Ted Kotcheff
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Director, Executive Producer Born: April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Biography:Canadian director "Ted Kotcheff" cut his teeth on live television in his native country, then moved on to British TV in 1957. While a resident of England, Kotcheff directed his first film, "Tiara Tahiti" (1962), using his full name William T. Kotcheff. Despite an engaging premise about rival hotel owners in Tahiti and a cast including "James Mason" and "John Mills", "Tiara Tahiti" wasn't a major success. Kotcheff made up for this setback with his next British film, "Life at the Top" (1963), the cynical sequel to 1959's "Room at the Top". For "Outback" (1971), Kotcheff took cast and crew to Australia for the fascinating tale of a schoolteacher's experience with a primitive Australian tribe. Back in Canada in 1974, Kotcheff all but single-handedly turned that country's film industry around with "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", the freewheeling tale of a Jewish lad (played by a pre-star "Richard... Full Biography
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