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Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian television and movie director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. One of his most famous credits was 1961's A Raisin in the Sun,... which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed Buster and Billie , the Academy Award-nominated Resurrection , Fort Apache, The Bronx and Cocoon: The Return . He directed well-known television movies such as Sybil, Eleanor and Franklin, The Dollmaker and My Name is Bill W., and produced a 1999 remake of Inherit the Wind. His feature films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts , and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder and Kiefer Sutherland . As a television director he was a winner of multiple Emmy and Directors Guild of America Awards.
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