Frédéric Back

フレデリック・バック

Birth Date

4/8/1924 (Age 89)

Birth Place

Sankt Arnual, Germany

Death Date

12/24/2013

Departments

Directing Production

Biography

Frédéric Back, OC CQ was a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films. During a long career with Radio-Canada, the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning two, for his 1981 film Crac and the 1987 film The Man Who Planted Trees.