1. Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright.
17 Facts About Timothy Findley
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Timothy Findley was informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.
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One of three sons, Findley was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Allan Gilmour Findley, a stockbroker, and his wife, the former Margaret Maude Bull.
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Timothy Findley was raised in the upper class Rosedale district of the city, attending boarding school at St Andrew's College.
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Timothy Findley pursued a career in the arts, studying dance and acting, and had significant success as an actor before turning to writing.
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Timothy Findley was part of the original Stratford Festival company in the 1950s, acting alongside Alec Guinness, and appeared in the first production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Timothy Findley played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
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Timothy Findley eventually became the domestic partner of writer Bill Whitehead, whom he met in 1962.
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Whitehead and Timothy Findley won the ACTRA Award for Best Writing in a Television Documentary at the 4th ACTRA Awards in 1975 for The National Dream.
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Timothy Findley received a Governor General's Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, an ACTRA Award, the Order of Ontario, the Trillium Book Award, and in 1985 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Timothy Findley was a founding member and chair of the Writers' Union of Canada, and a president of the Canadian chapter of PEN International.
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Timothy Findley publicly mentioned his homosexuality, passingly and perhaps for the first time, on a broadcast of the programme The Shulman File in the 1970s, taking host Morton Shulman completely by surprise.
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In 1996, Timothy Findley was honoured by the French government, who declared him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres.
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Timothy Findley was the author of several dramas for television and stage.
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Timothy Findley's 1993 play The Stillborn Lover was adapted by Shaftesbury Films into the television film External Affairs, which aired on CBC Television in 1999.
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Timothy Findley was an active mentor to a number of young Canadian writers, including Marnie Woodrow and Elizabeth Ruth.
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Timothy Findley died on June 20,2002, in Brignoles, France, not far from his house in Cotignac.