Mort Ransen: Mort Ransen. Director: Margaret's Museum. Mort Ransen was born on 16 August 1933 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Margaret's Museum (1995), Falling Over Backwards (1990) and My Father's Angel (1999). He died on 4 September 2021 in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada.