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name: "Guy Maddin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/guy-maddin"
fi1m_id: "guy-maddin"
imdb_id: "nm0534665"
tmdb_id: 97579
wikidata_id: "Q598995"
roles: ["Editor","Director"]
born: "28 February 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T02:03:12.952765+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Guy Maddin

## Identity

Guy Maddin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/guy-maddin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** guy-maddin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0534665
- **TMDB ID:** 97579
- **Wikidata ID:** Q598995
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Maddin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q598995, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534665/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97579

Editor and director. Born 28 February 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor, Director
- **Born:** 28 February 1956, Winnipeg, Canada
- **Also known as:** Gajs Madins
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Maddin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q598995, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534665/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97579

## Biography

Guy Maddin is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. He was born on 28 February 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Maddin’s second feature, *Archangel* (1990), was directed, co-written with George Toles and edited by him. The film is set during the final stages of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution in northern Russia.

His other films include *Tales from the Gimli Hospital* (1988), *The Saddest Music in the World* (2003), *My Winnipeg* (2008) and *The Forbidden Room* (2015). He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2012.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Archangel* (1990), Fi1m 68, Screenplay, Director, Editor, Sound, Cinematography, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/archangel.md)

## Complete filmography (81)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Vampire Lestat* (2026), series, as 'The Voice of Failure' (voice)
- *City Wide Fever* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Rumours* (2024), Director, Story
- *Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality* (2022), Director
- *Horse Brothers* (2022), as Anton the Horse (voice)
- *Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror* (2021), Graphic Designer
- *The Rabbit Hunters* (2020), Screenplay, Director
- *Stump the Guesser* (2020), Director, Writer
- *J.T. LeRoy* (2019), as Reader
- *Accidence* (2018), Director, Writer
- *The Green Fog* (2018), Director
- *Trump Dreams* (2017), Actor
- *Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group* (2017), Actor
- *The Forbidden Room* (2015), Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer
- *Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton* (2015), Director
- *The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin* (2015), Actor
- *Once a Chicken* (2015), Director
- *Lines of the Hand* (2015), Director
- *Louis Riel for Dinner* (2014), as Narrator
- *The Hall Runner* (2014), Director
- *Puberty* (2014), Director
- *Colours* (2014), Director
- *Elms* (2014), Director
- *Cold* (2014), Director
- *Invisible World* (2013), Director
- *Only Dream Things* (2012), Director
- *Keyhole* (2011), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Sinclair* (2010), Director
- *How to Take a Bath* (2009), Director
- *The Little White Cloud That Cried* (2009), Director
- *Night Mayor* (2009), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
- *Experiments in Terror 3* (2009), Director
- *Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair* (2009), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *Glorious* (2008), Director, Writer
- *Spanky: To the Pier and Back* (2008), Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- *My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto* (2008), Director, Producer
- *Footsteps* (2008), Cinematography, Director
- *97 Percent True* (2008), Actor
- *It's My Mother's Birthday Today* (2008), Director
- *My Winnipeg* (2008), as Narrator (voice) · Director, Writer, Producer
- *Berlin* (2007), Director
- *Brand Upon the Brain!* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Odin's Shield Maiden* (2007), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
- *Manuelle Labor* (2007), Actor
- *Lullaby* (2007), Director
- *My Dad Is 100 Years Old* (2006), Director
- *Nude Caboose* (2006), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *Workbook* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Audition One* (2005), Director
- *Audition Two* (2005), Director, Director of Photography
- *Chimney Workbook* (2005), Director
- *FuseBoy* (2005), Director, Director of Photography
- *Sorrowful Shadow* (2004), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *Sissy-Boy Slap-Party* (2004), Director, Camera Operator, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
- *A Trip to the Orphanage* (2004), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *The Saddest Music in the World* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Cowards Bend the Knee* (2003), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *Fancy, Fancy Being Rich* (2002), Director
- *Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary* (2002), Director
- *Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse* (2001), Director
- *It's a Wonderful Life* (2001), Director
- *Preludes* (2000), Director
- *The Heart of the World* (2000), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *Nostradamus* (2000), as Waiter Joe
- *Hospital Fragment* (1999), Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *The Cock Crew* (1998), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Maldoror: Tygers* (1998), Director
- *Twilight of the Ice Nymphs* (1997), Director
- *Zookeeper Workbook* (1997), Director, Writer, Cinematography
- *Rooster Workbook* (1997), Director, Writer, Cinematography, Producer
- *Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity* (1995), Director, Screenplay
- *The Hands of Ida* (1995), Director
- *Careful* (1992), Editor, Production Design, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
- *Indigo High-Hatters* (1991), Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
- *Archangel* (1990), Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor, Art Direction, Sound — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/archangel.md)
- *Tales from the Gimli Hospital* (1988), Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
- *The Dead Father* (1985), Director, Writer
- *The International Style* (1983), as Nurse
- *Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms* (1982), as Student
- *The Triangular Door*, as Narrator
- *Nightingale*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Guy Maddin, Canadian director and writer, member of the international jury of the Berlinale 2011, arriving at the premiere of True Grit](https://film.one/media/person/3928007/gallery-61d11d9fef36.jpg) Guy Maddin, Canadian director and writer, member of the international jury of the Berlinale 2011, arriving at the premiere of True Grit — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Guy_Maddin_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2011%29.jpg/1280px-Guy_Maddin_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2011%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Guy Maddin at the 2017 James River Film Festival (James River Film Society)](https://film.one/media/person/3928007/gallery-dee849b38f0b.jpg) Guy Maddin at the 2017 James River Film Festival (James River Film Society) — Echristman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Guy_Maddin_%28by_Eli_Christman%29_%28cropped-J1%29.jpg/1280px-Guy_Maddin_%28by_Eli_Christman%29_%28cropped-J1%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Guy Maddin bei der Premiere seines Films The Forbidden Room bei der Berlinale 2015](https://film.one/media/person/3928007/gallery-bc1e52b4f0a0.jpg) Guy Maddin bei der Premiere seines Films The Forbidden Room bei der Berlinale 2015 — Queryzo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Guy_Maddin_Berlinale_2015.jpg/1280px-Guy_Maddin_Berlinale_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Guy Maddin](https://film.one/media/person/3928007/gallery-11fc87b0570f.jpg) Guy Maddin — Image via TMDB
- ![Guy Maddin](https://film.one/media/person/3928007/gallery-35026ede7775.jpg) Guy Maddin — Image via TMDB

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