# Les Rose

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{{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](/source/Three_Card_Monte_(film))'', for which he received a [Canadian Film Award](/source/Canadian_Film_Award) nomination for [Best Director](/source/Canadian_Screen_Award_for_Best_Director) at the [29th Canadian Film Awards](/source/29th_Canadian_Film_Awards) in 1978.<ref>[Jay Scott](/source/Jay_Scott), "Four films nominated for Etrogs". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', August 24, 1978.</ref>

Rose began his career making documentary films for the [National Film Board of Canada](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada). ''Three Card Monte'' was his first commercial film. He subsequently directed the films ''[Title Shot](/source/Title_Shot)'',<ref>[Jay Scott](/source/Jay_Scott), "Title Shot missest both of its targets". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', September 11, 1979.</ref> ''[Hog Wild](/source/Hog_Wild_(1980_film))'',<ref>Jay Scott, "Two more entries in gross-out stakes". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', June 9, 1980.</ref> ''[Gas](/source/Gas_(1981_film))'' and ''[Isaac Littlefeathers](/source/Isaac_Littlefeathers)'', the television films ''Maintain the Right'',<ref>Betty Swimmings, "RCMP drama misses mark". ''[Ottawa Citizen](/source/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](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', April 16, 1983.</ref> and ''Covert Action'', and two episodes of ''[Fraggle Rock](/source/Fraggle_Rock)''.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0741535}}

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