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John Drainie, was called the “greatest radio actor in the world” by Orson Welles. He began his career in radio with CJOR, CKNW and CBU in Vancouver and was a major player in CBC’s Golden Age of Radio. John Drainie was most famous in Canada for the CBC radio role of Jake in W.O. Mitchell’s…
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Sandy DeSantis, a popular band leader and trumpeter extraordinaire was born in Vancouver BC. He began his professional gig in the 1930’s at the Venice Cafe on Main and Keefer (544 Main Street). Himie Singer built the renowned Palomar Ballroom during that time, opening a spectacular new venue for music and dancing and he hired Sandy to…
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William B. Davis is best known as “Cancerman” from THE X-FILES and was proudly voted Television’s Favorite Villain (as voted by the readers of US TV Guide) and called “TV-land’s hottest and hippest villain” by Saturday Night Magazine. His extensive acting and directing career began in Toronto when he was just 11 years old and…
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Born in Edmonton, Anne Wheeler graduated from U of A with a Mathematics degree in 1967 and began a Masters of Music before starting her filmmaking career in the early seventies dedicated to defining what it was to be western Canadian. In 1978 she joined the National Film Board to help establish a regional presence…
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John Wright began his professional career as an actor in Vancouver in the 1960s. In 1963 appeared in the iconic Canadian revue The Best of Spring Thaw with Dave Broadfoot, directed by Mavor Moore. His theatre directing credits range from Aeschylus to Ayckbourne, as well as film and television dramas and documentaries. He holds a BA from UBC and…
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