Wolf Koenig
Wolf Koenig (October 17, 1927 - June 26, 2014) was a German-born Canadian movie director, producer, animator and cinematographer. He was a founder of Direct Cinema at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). For NFB, he worked on movies such as Neighbours (1952) and Lonely Boy (1962). His animations included What on Earth! (1966) and The House That Jack Built (1967).
Koenig was born in Dresden, Saxony. He and his family fled Nazi Germany for Canada in 1937.
Koenig died on June 26, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, aged 86.
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Other websites
Wolf Koenig at the Canadian Encyclopedia
1927 births
2014 deaths
Canadian animators
Canadian Jews
Canadian movie directors
Canadian movie producers
Cinematographers
German Jews
Jewish businesspeople
People from Dresden
People from Toronto
Refugees from Nazism