Biography & Autobiography Entertainment & Performing Arts
Silver Hair and Golden Voice
Austin Willis, from Halifax to Hollywood
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2020
- Category
- Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771088534
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $68.85
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Description
Over his extensive career, Halifax-born film, television, and radio performer Austin Willis worked with luminaries from Orson Welles and Peter Sellers to a young William Shatner. He bested Goldfinger at cards—with help from Sean Connery’s James Bond—and with his prematurely white hair, he became the debonair, wry host of the 1970s CBC-TV quiz show, This Is The Law. This is the memoir Willis wanted to write—but didn’t, because he never stopped performing.
About the author
Ernest J. Dick lives in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia. His archival career has focussed on Canada's audio-visual heritage, first at the National Archives of Canada, then the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has also taught at Saint Mary's University in Halifax and has researched and published works on the history of film and television of Atlantic Canada.
