Career
His 1977 film lieutenant Shouldn"t Happen to a Vet was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. After directing for the Armchair Theatre and Wednesday Play series" in the United Kingdom, Till emigrated to Canada in Toronto in 1954. He has directed numerous Canadian and American television films from the 1960s onwards, including An American Christmas Carol starring Henry Winkler, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump, and To Catch a Killer starring Brian Dennehy as psychotic serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Films he has directed include.
Hot Millions, A Fan"s Notes, lieutenant Shouldn"t Happen to a Vet, Bethune, Wild Horse Hank, Improper Channels, Voices from Within (also known as Silhouette), Bonhoeffer - Agent of Grace, Luther and the Muppet television movies Fraggle Rock, The Christmas Toy and A Muppet Family Christmas. His work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canadian Broadcasting Company) included some of the following: the mini-series of Pierre Berton"s The National Dream, a movie of Brian Friel"s Freedom of the City, Katherine Anne Porter"s Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Marghanita Laski"s The Offshore Island, John Hopkin"s Talking to a Stranger, the television film Shocktrauma, and the mini-series Glory Enough for All about the discoverers of insulin.
Till has directed performances of the National Ballet of Canada, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for television as well as the final concert of the famous conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. In 2005 he was awarded the Governor General"s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada"s highest honour in the performing arts, by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.
