Don Carmody

Donald (aka Don) Carmody (born April 16, 1951) is an American-born Canadian film and television producer.^[1][2]

Education

Born in Rhode Island and raised in Montreal, he earned a BA in communication studies from Loyola College, one of Concordia University's founding institutions, in 1972.^[3][4]

Career

He began his career in the 1970s at Cinèpix Film Properties, where he worked on the early films of David Cronenberg with Ivan Reitman, and later moved to Harold Greenberg’s Astral Bellevue Pathé, where he was an executive in charge of production. Leaving Astral, he served as co-producer on Bob Clark’s box office smash, Porky's, for decades, Canada's highest-grossing film worldwide.

Carmody has produced some 100 films thus far,^[5] including Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique (2009), The Mighty, Yesterday, The Boondock Saints, and he was a member of the producing team on the hit musical Chicago, which was shot in Toronto and won an Academy Award in 2002 for Best Picture. He has also produced the video game adaptations the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series.^[6] He is the recipient of five Canadian Screen Awards, and is a board member of the Canadian Film Centre.^[2][7]

Filmography

Film

Producer^[8]

• Tulips (1981)
• Porky's (1981)
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
• Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)
• The Vindicator (1986)
• Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
• State Park (1988)
• Welcome Home (1989)
• Whispers (1990)
• Sidekicks (1992)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The Substitute (1996) (Uncredited)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Some Things That Stay (2004)
• Silent Hill (2006)
• Skinwalkers (2007)
• Polytechnique (2009)
• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
• Die (2010)
• Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
• Goon (2011)
• Breakaway (2011)
• Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
• Home Again (2012)
• Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
• The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
• Pompeii (2014)
• Love, Rosie (2014)
• After the Ball (2015)
• Wait Till Helen Comes (2016)
• Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017)
• Tokyo Trial (2017)
• 22 Chaser (2018)
• Lucky Day (2019)
• Death of a Ladies' Man (2020)
• Forgiveness (TBA)

Co-producer

• Shivers (1975)
• Rabid (1977)
• Split Image (1982)
• The Big Town (1987)
• Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
• The Mighty (1998)
• The Third Miracle (1999)
• The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
• Chicago (2002)
• Amelia (2009)

Executive producer^[9]

• Blackout (1978)
• Yesterday (1981)
• The Hot Touch (1981)
• Strange but True (1983)
• Fred C. Dobbs Goes to Hollywood (1983)
• Cathy Smith: It's Only Rock N' Roll (1985)
• Switching Channels (1988)
• Physical Evidence (1989)
• The Lost World (1992)
• Primary Motive (1992)
• Guilty as Sin (1993)
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
• Love in Paris (1997)
• Critical Care (1997)
• Senseless (1998)
• 54 (1998)
• The Boondock Saints (1999) (Co-executive producer)
• In Too Deep (1999)
• Battlefield Earth (2000)
• The Art of War (2000)
• Get Carter (2000)
• The Pledge (2001) (Uncredited)
• The Caveman's Valentine (2001) (Uncredited)
• 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
• Driven (2001)
• Angel Eyes (2001)
• Heist (2001)
• City by the Sea (2002)
• Wrong Turn (2003)
• Gothika (2003)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
• Outlander (2008)
• The Echo (2008)
• 45 R.P.M. (2008)
• Orphan (2009)
• Whiteout (2009)
• Hidden 3D (2011)^[10]
• An Insignificant Harvey (2011)
• The Factory (2012)
• 13 Eerie (2013)
• Bad Country (2014)
• He Hated Pigeons (2015)

Miscellaneous crew

Production manager

As an actor

Location management

Thanks

• Pay the Ghost (2015)
• Adventures in Public School (2017)
• Anon (2018)

Television

Executive producer

• Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (1979) (TV movie)
• A Man Called Intrepid (1979)
• The Tracker (2001) (TV movie)
• Tokyo Trial (2016)
• Between (2015–16)
• Northern Rescue (2019)

Line producer

• The Intruder Within (1981) (TV movie) (Uncredited)
• Payoff (1991) (TV movie)

Producer

• The Late Shift (1996) (TV movie)
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)
• Shadowhunters (2016)

Miscellaneous crew

Production manager

References

1. ^ The New York Times
2. ^ "Don Carmody"
3. ^ "50 years of success". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
4. ^ "Don Carmody Movies & TV Shows List | Rotten Tomatoes | Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2026-02-11.
5. ^ "Cmpa.ca". Archived from the original on 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
6. ^ "Don Carmody: Canada's 100-movie marathon man". The Globe and Mail. 2011-04-08. Archived 2022-09-14 at the Wayback Machine.
7. ^ "Don Carmody". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2026-02-11.
8. ^ "Don Carmody - Box Office". The Numbers. Retrieved 2026-02-11.
9. ^ "Don Carmody". MUBI. Retrieved 2026-02-11.
10. ^ "Hidden 3D". Caramel Films. Retrieved 2026-01-27.

External links

• Don Carmody at IMDb
• Official website