Ralph L. Thomas (born September 8, 1939) is a Brazilian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter.
[1] He was born in São Luís, Maranhão to Canadian Baptist missionary parents and grew up there and in Canada.
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.
[3] His follow-up film, The Terry Fox Story, also won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture.