14 Facts About Warner Troyer

Warner Troyer was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer.

Warner Troyer lost his leg at a young age, and later worked with Patrick Watson who had a missing leg.

Warner Troyer began his career as an overnight radio disc jockey in Saskatchewan, then became the first radio reporter in the Manitoba legislature and was not even allowed in the press gallery.

Warner Troyer then moved to the Winnipeg Free Press and worked as a news reporter for CKRC radio 630kc.

Warner Troyer was later featured on the 1960s CBC Television current affairs program This Hour Has Seven Days.

In 1975, Warner Troyer co-hosted the first season of the fifth estate with Adrienne Clarkson, on CBC.

Warner Troyer was involved in the production of CBWT's Eye-To-Eye program and was for a time executive producer and co-host of W5 on CTV.

In 1976, Warner Troyer provided commentaries following episodes of The Prisoner as they were broadcast on commercial-free TVOntario.

Warner Troyer interviewed Patrick McGoohan about the series for a TVOntario broadcast in 1977 and was credited as a consultant in the 1976 TVOntario publication The Prisoner Puzzle.

Warner Troyer's 1980 book 200 Days: Joe Clark in Power was an examination of the short-lived Progressive Conservative administration of Prime Minister Joe Clark, which was a 1979 minority government, defeated in a motion of non-confidence late that year.

Warner Troyer married his first wife, Margaret and had six children: Marc, Scott, Jill, Jennifer, Peggy and John.

Warner Troyer had two children, Peter and Anne, with his second wife.

Warner Troyer was listed as a consultant for The Canadian Green Consumer Guide, published in 1989, and wrote Preserving Our World: A Consumer's Guide to the Brundtland Report, published in 1990.

Warner Troyer contracted throat cancer and died in Toronto at age 59.