dancer, television personality, television producer
Known for
Interviewer on CBC Television, co-founder of ACTRA Awards
Lorraine Thomson (12 July 1931 – 13 August 2020) was a Canadian dancer, television host, television producer and one of the co-founders, with Pierre Berton, of the ACTRA Awards. She was the first dancer hired by the CBC for their first televised variety show, The Big Revue, and made regular appearances as a dancer and actor on many television shows in the first decade of Canadian broadcasting. She turned to radio hosting in the 1960s, and then television hosting in the 1970s for CBC's The Naked Mind, The Weaker(?) Sex and V.I.P. She was one of the first women to produce variety shows on CBC, and for 18 years, she was the program coordinator for Front Page Challenge. She was nominated for several national awards for her work both in front of and behind the camera.
LorraineThomson (12 July 1931 – 13 August 2020) was a Canadian dancer, television host, television producer and one of the co-founders, with Pierre Berton...
by Saffron, based on her own life) and Heartbeat. Roughley played LorraineThomson in one episode of Coronation Street, which aired on 17 May 1996. Roughley...
actress, singer, dancer, and director. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly...
In later years, they considered this their favourite script.: 153 LorraineThomson, who often appeared on their live broadcasts in the 1950s, called their...
married four times, although his final marriage, to CBC personality LorraineThomson, lasted for 32 years. Nash blamed the dissolution of previous marriages...
health which aired on CBC Television in 1974. The series, hosted by LorraineThomson, featured drama segments to illustrate various mental health conditions...
Roulet, 89, American Roman Catholic nun and prison reform activist. LorraineThomson, 89, Canadian dancer and television host. Darío Vivas, 70, Venezuelan...
O'Neill – percussion Tony Reif – production Matt Rogalsky – percussion LorraineThomson – cover art Rovi. "Ecology of Souls". Allmusic. Retrieved March 23...
Harland Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine Mary (née O'Donnell), a social worker and writer, and John Reesor Williams...
actor (b. 1941) Irene Piotrowski, track and field athlete (b. 1941) LorraineThomson, dancer and television host (b. 1931) August 14 – Joe Norton, politician...
(SA) Henson Liang (Unity) David Mendelssohn (Dem) Richard Raw (Ind) LorraineThomson (SOS) Menai Labor Alison Megarrity Brett Thomas (Lib) Tina Pallandinetti...
best friend was a woman. Thomson stated that he did not think he and Jonny shared many similarities. He later told Lorraine Kelly that he loved playing...
intellect, an extraordinary person and a fine, dedicated artist". David Thomson writes that "It is the lives and works of people like John Cazale that...
to David Cameron's off-camera quip on This Morning". The Courier. D. C. Thomson & Co. 22 April 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved...
that his "sister", June, was actually his mother, and his other "sister", Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had...
Lorraine Wild (born 1953, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born American graphic designer, writer, art historian, and teacher. She is an AIGA Medalist and...
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