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Imogen Sutton

canadian-British film producer and director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ22075548
Source-derived summary

Born January 1st, 1950, Imogen "Mo" Sutton is a Canadian–British producer-director, the daughter of artist Philip Sutton and widow of animator Richard Williams. She is perhaps best known for producing the animated short film Prologue, that earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with Williams. As of August 2026, she is now 76 years old.

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“Imogen Sutton” enters the record as canadian-British film producer and director. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Imogen, Sutton and canadian-British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Imogen, Sutton and canadian-British.
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“Imogen Sutton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Imogen, Sutton and canadian-British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22075548. VIAF identifies the subject as 274509521. The Library of Congress control number is nr90005647. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from Imogen Sutton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.