Ron Weyman
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Ronald Charles Tosh Weyman (December 13, 1915 – June 26, 2007) was a British-born Canadian film and television director and producer.[1] A documentary film director for the National Film Board of Canada from 1946 to 1953, and a director and producer of drama television programming for CBC Television from 1954 to 1980,[2] he was most noted as director of the Canadian Film Award-winning documentary film After Prison, What?,[3] and as a producer of The Serial, a CBC drama anthology series which spun off many of Canadian television's most important drama series of the 1960s.
Born in Erith, Kent in 1915, Weyman emigrated to St. Catharines, Ontario with his family in 1923.[1] By the time he was a teenager the family had moved to Toronto, where Weyman attended high school.[1] He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.[4] He married Alison Alford, the daughter of University of Toronto fine arts professor John Alford, while on leave in 1941, although she died of an epileptic seizure in 1943 while Weyman was on duty.[1] A hobby painter, he painted several war scenes during this time which were subsequently acquired by the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian War Museum.[1]
