Arthur Hammond (director)

Arthur Henry Percival Hammond (1930 – March 28, 2023) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker, associated with the National Film Board of Canada.^[1] He was most noted as codirector with Donald Brittain and John Spotton of Never a Backward Step, which won the Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 20th Canadian Film Awards in 1968,^[2] and for his 1968 film This Land, for which he was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Director at the 21st Canadian Film Awards in 1969.^[3]

Hammond was also the writer and director of Corporation, a six-part documentary series aired by CBC Television in 1975,^[4] and of Imperfect Union, a four-part NFB series on Canadian labour history.^[5]

Hammond died on March 28, 2023.^[6]