Les Rose was a Canadian film and television director. He was most noted for the film Three Card Monte, for which he received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Director at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978.
Rose began his career making documentary films for the National Film Board of Canada. Three Card Monte was his first commercial film. He subsequently directed the films Title Shot, Hog Wild, Gas and Isaac Littlefeathers, the television films Maintain the Right, The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd and Covert Action, and two episodes of Fraggle Rock.
References
- Jay Scott, "Four films nominated for Etrogs". The Globe and Mail, August 24, 1978.
- Jay Scott, "Title Shot missest both of its targets". The Globe and Mail, September 11, 1979.
- Jay Scott, "Two more entries in gross-out stakes". The Globe and Mail, June 9, 1980.
- Betty Swimmings, "RCMP drama misses mark". Ottawa Citizen, March 14, 1980.
- Rick Groen, "Edwin Alonzo Boyd, a legend in his own mind: TV portrait of Canada's baddest bank-robber examines the fine line between myth and reality". The Globe and Mail, April 16, 1983.
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