Norman Jewison's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Life and Times (CA) Norman Jewi…

Main Movie Roles 2004 - Tell Them Who You Are 2003 - The Statement 1996 - The Stupids

BIOGRAPHY:

Jewison got his BA at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and after moving to London, where he wrote scripts and acted for the BBC, he returned to Toronto and directed TV shows for the CBC (1952-1958), then musicals and variety in New York, before embarking on a film career. In 1986 he established the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies in Toronto.


TRIVIA:

• Directed the original versions of both _Rollerball (1975)_ (qv) and _The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)_ (qv). Both films were later remade by 'John McTiernan (I)' (qv).
• Father of associate producer and location manager 'Michael Jewison' (qv).
• Father of actress 'Jennifer Jewison' (qv).
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 479-483. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Had his own voice dubbed into _Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)_ (qv); he's the Old Man in "Peter's Denial."
• Attended same east-end Toronto high school (Malvern Collegiate) as famed concert pianist 'Glenn Gould' (qv).
• Directed 12 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: 'Alan Arkin' (qv), 'Rod Steiger' (qv), 'Topol' (qv), 'Leonard Frey' (qv), 'Al Pacino' (qv), 'Adolph Caesar' (qv), 'Anne Bancroft (I)' (qv), 'Meg Tilly' (qv), 'Cher (I)' (qv), 'Vincent Gardenia' (qv), 'Olympia Dukakis' (qv), and 'Denzel Washington' (qv). Steiger, Dukakis and Cher won Oscars for their performances in the films in which Jewison directed them.
• Father of camera-operator 'Kevin Jewison' (qv).