William Weintraub's father had been a stock broker; he lost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and worked as the manager of a corner store.
10 Facts About William Weintraub
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William Weintraub studied English Literature and political science at McGill University, where he had worked on the McGill Daily.
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From 1951 to 1955, William Weintraub worked as a copy editor at Weekend Picture Magazine.
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William Weintraub became interested in the new medium of television and, in 1955, after taking a two-week course in script-writing, started freelancing as a writer with the CBC and the NFB.
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From 1975 to 1976, William Weintraub was the director, National Film Board studio in Nairobi, Kenya.
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William Weintraub served on the international jury of the Krakow Film Festival and was on the board of the Quebec Council for the Diffusion of Cinema.
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William Weintraub was a member of the Canadian delegation that visited China's film industry in 1977, a delegate to the UNESCO Conference on Film and Television, and was a recipient of a Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship.
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William Weintraub published four books after his seventieth birthday, including City Unique, an exploration of English Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, which received the QSPELL Prize for Non-Fiction from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
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William Weintraub dealt with it with Psychoanalysis, Electroconvulsive therapy and, eventually, by abstaining from alcohol.
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In 2003, William Weintraub was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.