Bruce Raymond has spent over forty years in every area of broadcasting, production and distribution as well as in a "side career" as an editor, writer and columnist.

In his early days as a writer, he wrote over 200 television documentaries, film scripts and radio programs. He was also an assistant editor on one of French Canada's first feature films.

For a brief period, Bruce Raymond worked with the CBC as Program Director for both the Radio and Television Networks and finally as Head of Foreign Relations and Export Sales. However, he preferred private enterprise to which he returned in 1969. Since then his distribution and production companies have done business on a worldwide scale.

As either Executive Producer or Producer, Bruce Raymond has been responsible for over a thousand hours of programming which have not only been telecast on all Canadian television stations, both English and French, but also on CBS, NBC, the Playboy Channel, and cable companies in the United States and around the world. The most notable of his series programs were a daily network strip Parenting for Procter & Gamble and ten of David Frost's hour-long interview programs as well as numerous Telethons and Award Shows. Such series as A Third Testament for Time-Life, and the 400-episode Celebrity Cooks were among the many Canadian productions for which he was able to find international air time.

Bruce Raymond's 1999 credits include that as Co-Producer of the CBS Movie-of-the-week Three Secrets which won its American network time slot. He had already provided a movie to CBS and CTV - Special People - which won two prestigious American Awards.

As a Co-Producer, his theatrical feature Blue City Slammers was distributed worldwide by Cineplex-Odeon and for the non-theatrical market he produced such short films as Matthew Manning, Study of a Psychic which was declared "one of the most sensitive films of its kind" and Philip The Imaginary Ghost which was recently featured in the new Time-Life Books series Mysteries of the Unknown. Raymond has also produced for The World's Most Wanted.

Raymond explains his involvement with the paranormal: "One of my interests has always been to become as knowledgeable as possible about psychic matters. So when Dr. George Owen and his wife Iris were brought from England to run the Toronto Society for Psychical Research, my wife and I became enthusiastic members. One result of that membership was the producing of the two films - Philip the Imaginary Ghost and Matthew Manning: Study of a Psychic."

Lately, Bruce Raymond has been called upon increasingly to use his experience and contacts as a Producer's Representative for Canadian companies, such as for Buried Alive in the Blues, the life story of Janis Joplin, produced by Random Factory for Bravo! and MuchMusic.

Bruce Raymond was brought up and educated in Montreal, graduating from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in English and Theatre Arts. He also graduated from the NBC School of Television Arts.

He is listed in the Canadian Who's Who.

November, 1999