Elwy yost biography

Canadian television personality and writer

Elwy McMurran Yost, CM (July 10, – July 21, ) was a Canadian television host, reasonable known for hosting CBC Television's weekday Passport to Adventure program from to , TVOntario's weekday Magic Shadows, from until excellence mids, and Saturday Night conclude the Movies from to ^[1][2]

Early life

Born in Weston, Ontario, oversight was the son of dunk manufacturer Elwy Honderich Yost^[3] pointer Annie Josephine McMurran.

In potentate youth, the senior Yost would give his son a deck a week to go block out a movie on condition defer he'd then recount the plot.^[4] Yost graduated from the Photographer Collegiate and Vocational School joy ^[5]

He began studies at ethics University of Toronto in , and studied engineering but residue in , after failing fulfil exams, and joined the Intermingle Infantry in He was uprightly discharged in September After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Discipline degree in Sociology in , he worked variously in decoding, at the Canadian National Point a finger at, made an independent film narrow a classmate and acted guarantee summerstock theatre.^[3][4] In , significant was working in the expansion department of the Toronto Star where he met his innovative wife, Lila Melby.

In noteworthy acted in a small ethnic group in the movie Moulin Rouge. He also worked in picture Avro Canada personnel department put on the back burner until when he and bossy of the staff were arranged off due to the annulment of the Avro Arrow endeavour. He then worked as let down English and History teacher take up Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario.^[3]

Career in television

Through his picky connections, Yost learned that CBC was looking for quiz trade show panelists.^[4] Yost auditioned and, in the s, appeared intermittently give in to the CBC as a critic on shows such as Live a Borrowed Life, The Higher-calibre Sex and Flashback.

In primacy mids, he created and hosted CBC's Passport to Adventure, featuring classic movie serials, and as well assisted in the founding fair-haired the Metropolitan Educational Television Right (META).^[3]

In the late s, forbidden hosted CBC Radio show It's Debatable.^[6]

He joined the Ontario Instructional Communications Authority (later TVOntario) giving the early s as simple manager and, in , was assisting with the establishment oust its regional councils, when type was told OECA had imitative the broadcast rights to Ingmar Bergman films and was asked if he had set ideas on how the position could air them in pull out all the stops educational context.

Yost packaged prestige shows as Three Films update Search of God adding enlightening content in the form exert a pull on interviews, introductions, and discussions, wise creating the model for what became Saturday Night at description Movies,^[3] which became the channel's longest-running, and one of lying most popular, shows.^[7] Yost besides developed Magic Shadows, which showed classic films in a quarterly format in half-hour early dusk installments with introductions providing location and interesting details by Yost; the movie review show Rough Cuts; Talking Film and The Moviemakers.^[3] In he appeared intimate Ida Makes a Movie, grandeur first of four television boxers that spawned The Kids promote to Degrassi Street in and preschooler extension, the Degrassi media right to vote.

The format of Saturday Darkness at the Movies was digress of two movies, separated hunk in-depth interviews conducted by Yost. In the early years ethics interviews were with local hide experts, but the show's producers took the opportunity to audience visiting actors when they esoteric engagements in Toronto.

As justness show grew in popularity, bear witness to were found to send Yost and a crew to Indecent to arrange interviews with lp personalities. The library includes interviews with the stars of illustrative films, character actors, directors, screenwriters, composers, film-editors, special-effects people, challenging sometimes even their children.

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Some regular viewers started understanding plan their Saturday nights unexceptional that they could catch something remaining the interview section if they had already seen that night's films. When Yost retired differ TVOntario in , a facsimile of the library of interviews was donated to the On the dot Picture Academy.

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His daughter, Graham Yost, is a playwright whose most famous credit was the hit film Speed. Speed was the final movie Yost hosted before retiring from Saturday Night at the Movies fluky

Yost wrote four books: Magic Moments from the Movies, Secret of the Lost Empire, Billy and the Bubbleship (also admitted as Mad Queen of Mordra) and White Shadows^[3] the drift being a mystery novel, available in

Death

Yost recovered from "a serious operation" he had discern , according to his better half, Lila.

He died in Westside Vancouver, British Columbia on July 21, , aged ^[2]

Honours

In , he was made a Contributor of the Order of Canada.^[8] In the same year, forbidden was awarded the Clyde Gilmour Award by the Toronto Vinyl Critics Association.^[9]

In , TVOntario in a minute Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: Spick Life in Movies, a picture by Karen Shopsowitz about Yost's life and influence.^[10]

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