Danny Freedman was a Canadian actor.[1] He was best known for his performance as Mona in the film Fortune and Men's Eyes,[2] for which he won the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 23rd Canadian Film Awards in 1971.[3] He was born in Montreal.[4]
Freedman had no other major film roles, although he had minor supporting appearances in the films One Man and U-Turn. He was primarily a stage actor, whose performances included Paul Foster's Tom Paine,[5] John Palmer's Memories of My Brother,[6] Fabian Jennings' Charles Manson a.k.a. Jesus Christ[7] and Diane Grant's Broom Hilda.[8] He was a roommate of the three artists associated with the General Idea arts collective in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[9]
Freedman had a small part on the American soap opera The Guiding Light.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Good idea tossed away". Toronto Star, November 5, 1973.
- ^ "Fortune and Men's Eyes: earnest prison drama". The Globe and Mail, June 24, 1971.
- ^ "New Quebec film sweeps 8 Canadian film awards". Toronto Star, October 2, 1971.
- ^ "Fortune given rave reviews at Venice fest". The Gazette. 3 September 1971. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "Delay improves group, not play". The Globe and Mail, November 24, 1969.
- ^ "Muraille chooses badly for opener". Toronto Star, November 6, 1969.
- ^ "Passe Muraille play full of dazzlement". Toronto Star, November 20, 1971.
- ^ "A fine ride with Broom Hilda". The Globe and Mail, May 8, 1975.
- ^ Kate Taylor, "A primer on Toronto’s General Idea, Canada’s most radical art collective". The Globe and Mail, June 1, 2022.
- ^ "People". The Gazette. 3 September 1981. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
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