D.J. Turner(II)
- Producer
A film historian, archivist, and film restorationist before getting
involved in production, D.J. Turner was born in England and moved to
Canada in 1959. After running university film societies, managing a
repertory cinema in Montreal and then starting an international film
festival in Ottawa in 1971, he joined the National Archives of Canada
where he remained until 2011. He supervised the restoration of many
films, most notably Back to God's Country, Something New, Carry on
Sergeant! and at UCLA, in collaboration with Bob Gitt, Edgar G. Ulmer's
Damaged Lives. In 1987, he published Canadian Feature Film Index
1913-1985 - complete credits of 1,222 films - and has written for
Cinema Canada, Journal of the University Film Association, 24 Images,
Griffithiana, Journal of Film Preservation (formerly FIAF Bulletin),
The Archivist, and Film History. He wrote the chapter on From Nine to
Nine in The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer (The Scarecrow Press, 2009). Almost
Paradise is his first screen credit.
