Gilbert Allan

Gilbert Allan has been in the performing arts since he was a child. He has worked in film, television, radio and the theatrical stage he loves so much. Twenty-five years as a professional director has taken him into a number of different areas of artistic expression.

Known in the artistic community as an “actor’s director”, Gil himself has performed in 31 professional stage productions (nineteen leading characters), acted in nearly 100 commercials, appeared in numerous television and video/film roles and has been in six feature films.

The former Senior, Writer/Producer/Director at CTV Edmonton (CFRN) and contract Producer/Director with Global TV (CITV) has written, produced and directed over 1500 television commercials. Infomercials, training films, corporate videos, television specials, etc. make up the body of his work.

Gil directed the feature motion pictures “Winter Kill, HALO, Cat’s Cradle & Green Eyes”. He will begin directing “Unfinished Business”, a new film on May 26th. “Winter Kill” aired on the CORUS Entertainment Network of movie channels (Movie Central, etc.) and “HALO” is currently available through “Rogers: Video on Demand” and on the CHUM Network. “Green Eyes” is available at Flix Video Rentals as well as, Viewpoint Video and Alternative Video. “Green Eyes” is currently being broadcast on The Academic Channel as part of the University of Haifa, Isreal’s “Education in Film” Program and on the CHUM Network. “Cat’s Cradle” is currently in post-production and will be released in early 2008.

Spring ‘03 Gil was nominated for an AMPIA (Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award) for Best Director for, “Where the Dinosaurs Roam…” a TV special. “Where the Dinosaurs Roam…”, was also nominated for Best Picture. Gil was nominated for Best Director a second time (Spring ’05) for “HALO”. Gilbert won a Much Music “Gold Video” award in 1987 for his directing of Cal Kellett’s, “Just Say So” and his “There Was Light” (Modern Brando) video made the Top 40 in 1988 (and stayed there for 14 straight weeks).
Gil has been favoured to work with a number of great people in the industry such as:

Hal Needham ( of, Smokey & the Bandit), Richard Lester (of, Superman), Dean Stockwell (of, Stargate), Jamie Farr (of, M.A.S.H.*), Sally-Ann Howse (of, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang), Lori Loughlin (of, Full House), Alan Suess (of, Laugh In), John Neville (of, The Eleventh Hour, The Statement), Louis Gossette Jr. (of, An Officer & A Gentlemen), Beverly DeAngelo and Miles O’Keefe (Finders Keepers) and James DeFelice (of, Why Shoot the Teacher?), just to name a few.

Gil currently teaches acting and motion picture production at Concordia University College of Alberta, Taylor University College and The King’s University College. Gil is the Creative Director at Concordia High School.

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Gilbert Allan

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