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- Birth nameGeorge Cashel Stoney
- George C. Stoney was born on July 1, 1916 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA. He was a producer and director, known for All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story (1953), How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978) and Booked for Safekeeping (1960). He was married to Mary Newcome Bruce. He died on July 12, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseMary Newcome Bruce(1945 - 1960) (divorced, 3 children)
- He taught filmmaking at New York University from 1970 until 2012.
- His survivors include a son, James; a daughter, Louise; a sister, Elizabeth Segal; one granddaughter; and a great-granddaughter.
- He worked as a field research assistant in the South for civil rights groups in the 1940s, was a photo intelligence officer during World War II and afterward worked as a newspaper reporter. He made films for state government agencies before beginning his own film company.
- He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and received certification in film education at the University of London.
- Mr. Stoney helped create the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers.
- We look on cable as a way of encouraging public action, not just access. It's how people can get information to their neighbors, and their neighbors can get out on the streets to organize.
- Make anybody famous. To celebrate the ordinary things people do to help one another.
- Prime purpose in life now. Well my prime concern now is my family and my friends. Politics is important. But my primary interest is in the people who are around me. I'm always a bit suspect when people lose their roots in their family and in their community.
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