Les Rose

{{Short description|Canadian film director}} {{for|the 2020 documentary film|The Rose Family}} '''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.<ref>Jay Scott, "Four films nominated for Etrogs". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 24, 1978.</ref>

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'',<ref>Jay Scott, "Title Shot missest both of its targets". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 11, 1979.</ref> ''Hog Wild'',<ref>Jay Scott, "Two more entries in gross-out stakes". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 9, 1980.</ref> ''Gas'' and ''Isaac Littlefeathers'', the television films ''Maintain the Right'',<ref>Betty Swimmings, "RCMP drama misses mark". ''Ottawa Citizen'', March 14, 1980.</ref> ''The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd''<ref>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.</ref> and ''Covert Action'', and two episodes of ''Fraggle Rock''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Les}} Category:Film directors from Toronto Category:Canadian television directors Category:Possibly living people