Filmmaker: Stanley Fox

Stanley Fox with Bolex movie camera, 1947. Art and Artists, Royal BC Museum. (courtesy Stanley Fox)

Stanley Fox

Dates active:

1946-1953

Club Affiliation

National Film Society of Canada (Vancouver Branch)

University of British Columbia (Communications Division)

Gender:

Male

Awards/Recognition:

BC Archives list of titled amateur films

Films:

Suetonius Version, The (1953)

• Video: Excerpt, via Royal BC Museum, YouTube

In the Daytime (1949)

• Video: Stanley Park sequence, via Royal BC Museum, YouTube

• Video: Vancouver Chinatown sequence, via Royal BC Museum, YouTube

Nemesis of Roger Riddle, The (1946)

Glub (1947)

• Video: Excerpt, via Royal BC Museum, YouTube

Abelard Before a Mirror (1949)

Suite Two: A Memo to Oscar (1947)

• Video: Excerpt via Royal BC Museum, YouTube

• Video: Video promo for Royal BC Museum screening, March 28, 2019

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Profession:

Educator, film producer, film department administrator

Related Professional Works:

• "The Be-in." Film insert for The Seven O'Clock Show. CBC Vancouver, 1967. One of Fox's films examining the hippie movement and the "Summer of Love" in Vancouver.

Biographical Notes:

"Stanley Fox (b. 1928) was a Vancouver filmmaker and film enthusiast. He made his first films as an amateur in the late 1940s. In 1953, he joined the film department of CBC Vancouver television as an assistant editor, eventually rising to the rank of unit director. He later founded filmmaking programs at UBC and SFU, taught at York University, and produced programs for TVOntario" British Columbia Archives.

Stanley Harold Fox died on May 20, 2025, aged 97.

Bibliographic Resources:

"Fox, Stanley." Stanley Fox fonds, British Columbia Archives.
"This Week in History: Season 5, Episode 3 - Filmmaker Fox." Royal BC Museum, YouTube (2016).
"Stan Fox on his first 16mm film footage." An excerpt from Fox's video autobiography on DVD, vol. 1. Royal BC Museum, YouTube [ca. 2004].

"Stanley Harold Fox (1928-2025) Obituary." "Vancouver Sun and Province (2025).