Donald Carmody (born April 16, 1951) is an American-born Canadian film and television producer.[1][2]
Don Carmody | |
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Carmody at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards Nominee Reception | |
Born | Donald Carmody April 16, 1951 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Film producer, television producer |
Education
editBorn in Rhode Island and raised in Montreal, he earned a BA in communication studies from Loyola College, one of Concordia University's founding institutions, in 1972.[3]
Career
editHe began his career in the 1970s at Cinèpix Film Properties, where he worked on the early films of David Cronenberg with Ivan Reitman, and later moved to Harold Greenberg’s Astral Bellevue Pathé, where he was an executive in charge of production. Leaving Astral, he served as co-producer on Bob Clark’s box office smash, Porky's, for decades, Canada's highest-grossing film worldwide.
Carmody has produced some 100 films thus far,[4] including Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique (2009), The Mighty, Yesterday, The Boondock Saints, and he was a member of the producing team on the hit musical Chicago, which was shot in Toronto and won an Academy Award in 2002 for Best Picture. He has also produced the video game adaptations the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series.[5] He is the recipient of five Canadian Screen Awards, and is a board member of the Canadian Film Centre.[6]
Filmography
editFilm
editYear | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
---|---|---|---|---|
1984 | The Surrogate | Yes | Yes | Yes |
1985 | Junior | No | Yes | Yes |
1989 | Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster | No | Yes | No |
1991 | The Hitman | No | Yes | Yes |
Producer
- Tulips (1981)
- Porky's (1981)
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
- Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)
- The Vindicator (1986)
- Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
- State Park (1988)
- Welcome Home (1989)
- Whispers (1990)
- Sidekicks (1992)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- The Substitute (1996) (Uncredited)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
- Some Things That Stay (2004)
- Silent Hill (2006)
- Skinwalkers (2007)
- Polytechnique (2009)
- The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
- Die (2010)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
- Goon (2011)
- Breakaway (2011)
- Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
- Home Again (2012)
- Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
- Pompeii (2014)
- Love, Rosie (2014)
- After the Ball (2015)
- Wait Till Helen Comes (2016)
- Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017)
- Tokyo Trial (2017)
- 22 Chaser (2018)
- Lucky Day (2019)
- Death of a Ladies' Man (2020)
- Forgiveness (TBA)
Co-producer
- Shivers (1975)
- Rabid (1977)
- Split Image (1982)
- The Big Town (1987)
- Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
- The Mighty (1998)
- The Third Miracle (1999)
- The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
- Chicago (2002)
- Amelia (2009)
Executive producer
- Blackout (1978)
- Yesterday (1981)
- The Hot Touch (1981)
- Strange but True (1983)
- Fred C. Dobbs Goes to Hollywood (1983)
- Cathy Smith: It's Only Rock N' Roll (1985)
- Switching Channels (1988)
- Physical Evidence (1989)
- The Lost World (1992)
- Primary Motive (1992)
- Guilty as Sin (1993)
- Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
- Love in Paris (1997)
- Critical Care (1997)
- Senseless (1998)
- 54 (1998)
- The Boondock Saints (1999) (Co-executive producer)
- In Too Deep (1999)
- Battlefield Earth (2000)
- The Art of War (2000)
- Get Carter (2000)
- The Pledge (2001) (Uncredited)
- The Caveman's Valentine (2001) (Uncredited)
- 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
- Driven (2001)
- Angel Eyes (2001)
- Heist (2001)
- City by the Sea (2002)
- Wrong Turn (2003)
- Gothika (2003)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
- Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
- Outlander (2008)
- The Echo (2008)
- 45 R.P.M. (2008)
- Orphan (2009)
- Whiteout (2009)
- Hidden 3D (2011)
- An Insignificant Harvey (2011)
- The Factory (2012)
- 13 Eerie (2013)
- Bad Country (2014)
- He Hated Pigeons (2015)
- Miscellaneous crew
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Production assistant | Uncredited
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1973 | Keep It in the Family | ||
The Pyx | Uncredited
| ||
1975 | The True Story of Eskimo Nell | Second unit coordinator | |
1976 | Death Weekend | Associate producer | |
1977 | Battle Beyond the Street | ||
1979 | Meatballs | Production executive | |
1980 | Death Ship | ||
Terror Train | |||
1981 | Hard Feelings | ||
1985 | Jagged Edge | Assistant producer | Uncredited
|
1989 | Winter People | Bond representative | |
Speed Zone | |||
1996 | The Substitute | ||
1997 | Good Will Hunting | Production consultant | Uncredited
|
1998 | Knock Off | Bond representative |
- Production manager
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1973 | U-Turn | Assistant production manager | |
1974 | The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds | Production manager | |
1975 | Eskimo Nell | Uncredited
| |
Tout feu, tout femme | |||
Shivers | |||
The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck | |||
1977 | Rabid | ||
1981 | Heartbreak High |
- As an actor
Year | Film | Role |
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1994 | Squanto: A Warrior's Tale | Archangel Officer |
1997 | Critical Care | Maitre d' |
1999 | The Boondock Saints | Mafioso #2 |
The Third Miracle | Jack Da Sica | |
2011 | Goon | Guy in Leather Jacket |
- Location management
Year | Film | Notes |
---|---|---|
1973 | Keep It in the Family | |
1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Uncredited |
The White Dawn |
- Thanks
- Pay the Ghost (2015)
- Adventures in Public School (2017)
- Anon (2018)
Television
editExecutive producer
- Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (1979) (TV movie)
- A Man Called Intrepid (1979)
- The Tracker (2001) (TV movie)
- Tokyo Trial (2016)
- Between (2015–16)
- Northern Rescue (2019)
Line producer
- The Intruder Within (1981) (TV movie) (Uncredited)
- Payoff (1991) (TV movie)
Producer
- The Late Shift (1996) (TV movie)
- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)
- Shadowhunters (2016)
- Miscellaneous crew
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980 | Chairman of the Board | Production auditor | TV movie |
2015−16 | Between | President: Don Carmody Television |
- Production manager
Year | Title | Notes |
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1973 | Across This Land | TV movie |
1980 | Guilty or Not Guilty | |
1991 | Payoff |
References
edit- ^ The New York Times
- ^ "Don Carmody".
- ^ "50 years of success". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ "Cmpa.ca". Archived from the original on 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
- ^ "Don Carmody: Canada's 100-movie marathon man". The Globe and Mail. 2011-04-08. Archived from the original on 2022-09-14.
- ^ "Don Carmody".