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Ralph L. Thomas (born September 8, 1939 in São Luís, Maranhão) is a Brazilian born Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was born to Canadian Baptist missionary parents and grew up in Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 and began to write for the entertainment pages of the Toronto Star a year later. He directed his first film in 1977 for the CBC, a made-for-TV movie called Tyler. He continued to make movies for television for a few years before he got his big break directing the feature film Ticket to Heaven. The film won Best Motion Picture at the Genie Awards and Thomas was nominated for Best Director. His follow-up film, The Terry Fox Story also won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. Thomas continued to direct feature and television films until 1996.