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Graham Ludlow

Graham Ludlow is a Canadian actor, executive, screenwriter and producer. [1] Ludlow was born in England but grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from Magee Secondary School. [2] [3]

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Career

Acting

His acting roles include the films Welcome to 18 (1986) [4] and Thunder Run (1986). [5]

Writer

Ludlow wrote the film The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997), starring Rutger Hauer and narrated by Richard Dreyfuss. The Hollywood Reporter said that it was, "... a pleasant surprise. Much more faithful to Jack London's 1903 classic than the two Hollywood versions." [6] The New York Post claimed Ludlow's adaptation was the "best version yet of Jack London's classic story of survival." [7] Ludlow also wrote the television movie Storm Cell (2008). [8]

Producer

Ludlow was a producer of the action film The Condemned (2007). [9] He was executive producer of the television film Anya's Bell (1999), [10] which was nominated for a Humanitas Prize in 2000, and won the 2000 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie. He executive produced Eight Days to Live (2006), which was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best TV Movie. Broadcast in Canada by CTV, Eight Days To Live became CTV's highest rated TV movie. [11] [12]

Ludlow was also executive producer of In God's Country (film) (2007), which won the 2008 CFTPA Indie Award for Best TV Movie [13] [14] and was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best TV Movie; The Good Times are Killing Me (2009), another Gemini Award nominee for Best TV Movie; and She Drives Me Crazy (2007), which was nominated and then won the Gemini Award for Best TV Movie in 2010. [15]

Ludlow wrote the screenplay for and is an executive producer of The Riverbank (2012). [16] [17] The film was the Opening Night Gala Presentation at the 24th edition of Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival on September 15, 2012, [18]

Ludlow produced and wrote the screenplay for the indie film Naked Dragon (2014). [19] [20]

Ludlow was a producer of the award-winning [21] Baroness von Sketch Show (2016). [22]

In 2021, Incendo appointed Ludlow to the role of production and development executive, Canada. [23] [24] Some of the titles he has produced at Incendo include Terror Train (2022), Marry F*** Kill (2022) and The Amityville Curse (2023). [25] [26] He is also an Executive Producer of the series Clean Sweep . [27]

Filmography

Actor

Producer

Screenwriter

Published works

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