| 词条 | William Whitehead (Canadian writer) |
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| name = William (Bill) Whitehead | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = William Frederick Whitehead | birth_date = August 16, 1931 | birth_place = Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|2|1|1931|8|16}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | resting_place = | occupation = Radio and television documentary writer, memoirist, filmmaker, actor | language = English | nationality = Canadian | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1960s-2010s | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Dieppe 1942, Building the Impossible Railway, Words to Live By | spouse = | partner = Timothy Findley | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }}William Frederick (Bill) Whitehead (August 16, 1931 – February 1, 2018) was a Canadian writer, actor and filmmaker. Whitehead is best known as a writer of radio and television documentaries[1] and as the former partner of the late Canadian writer Timothy Findley.[2] BackgroundWhitehead was born in Hamilton, Ontario, to Marjorie and Berkeley Kyle Whitehead.[3] His parents had moved there from Saskatchewan, and the family moved back to Regina when Whitehead was a child.[3] His parents subsequently divorced due to his father's epilepsy-related inability to maintain stable employment;[3] Whitehead did not see his father again until his late teens.[3] His initial career goal was to become an entomologist — by age 12 he was already a member of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society — but he also had a passion for theatre.[3] He studied biology and theatre arts at the University of Saskatchewan, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 and a Master of Arts degree in 1955, but decided against pursuing work as a biologist because he found it depended too strongly on having to kill animals.[3] He moved to Ontario in 1957 to become an actor, having several small roles with the Stratford Festival while serving as a propmaster and stage manager.[3] He met Findley, at the time also a Stratford Festival actor, in 1962, with their lifelong relationship beginning when Findley appeared in a CBC Television production of Jules Feiffer's play Crawling Arnold and Whitehead invited him over to watch it because Findley didn't own a television set.[3] CareerWhen Findley left the theatre to concentrate on writing fiction, Whitehead simultaneously took a job writing science documentaries for the CBC Radio documentary series The Learning Stage.[3] He remained an award-winning writer of radio and television documentaries, including over 100 episodes of the CBC Television series The Nature of Things and many episodes of the CBC Radio series Ideas.[1] He also co-wrote several works with Findley, including the television documentaries Dieppe 1942 and Building the Impossible Railway.[3] Following Findley's death in 2002, Whitehead compiled and edited the posthumous collection Travels of a Writer.[3] In March 2004, approximately two years after Findley's death, Whitehead donated a collection of Findley's theatre memorabilia to the University of Guelph.[4] He subsequently began a new relationship, with Trevor Green.[3] In September 2012, his memoir Words to Live By was published by Cormorant Books.[5] The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Stephen Leacock Award in 2013.[6] In 2014 he served on the jury of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers, selecting Tamai Kobayashi as that year's winner.[7] He died at his home in Toronto on February 1, 2018, having earlier been diagnosed with lung cancer.[3] References1. ^1 The Next Chapter, April 8, 2013. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehead, William}}2. ^[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2018/02/02/canadian-writer-william-bill-whitehead-has-died-at-age-86.html "Canadian writer William (Bill) Whitehead has died at age 86"]. Toronto Star, February 2, 2018. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{cite news|last1=Stoffman|first1=Judy|title=William Whitehead, 86, was a great CBC documentary writer who lived a life of devotion|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/william-whitehead-86-was-a-great-storyteller-who-lived-a-life-of-devotion/article38098518/|accessdate=February 24, 2018|work=The Globe and Mail|date=February 23, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/mediarel/archives/004625.html |title=Timothy Findley's theatre collection donated to U of G |date=2004-03-03 |accessdate=2007-06-14 |work=University of Guelph Campus News |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071030073450/http://www.uoguelph.ca/mediarel/archives/004625.html |archivedate = 2007-10-30}} 5. ^"The Word on the Street interview series: William Whitehead". Open Book Toronto, September 7, 2012. 6. ^"The authors on the shortlist for the Stephen Leacock Medal are no April Fools". CBC Books, April 2, 2013. 7. ^"Writers’ Trust Presents LGBT Literary Award to Author and Screenwriter, Tamai Kobayashi". Writers' Trust of Canada, June 23, 2014. 14 : 1931 births|2018 deaths|Canadian science writers|Canadian people of English descent|LGBT writers from Canada|Gay writers|University of Saskatchewan alumni|Canadian television writers|Canadian memoirists|Canadian radio writers|LGBT memoirists|Writers from Hamilton, Ontario|Writers from Regina, Saskatchewan|Male television writers |
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