Tom Daly, National Film Board’s Toronto-born producing legend, dies at age 93
Posted September 21, 2011 6:19 pm.
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MONTREAL – Legendary Canadian film producer Tom Daly has died.
The National Film Board of Canada, where Daly was a pioneering producer and editor, says the Toronto native died Sunday in Montreal, surrounded by family, after a long illness. He was 93.
The NFB says Daly is widely regarded as the most important figure to ever work in the agency’s English-language branch.
He joined the public film agency in 1940 as a production assistant directly out of the University of Toronto.
Daly produced his first film in 1945 and six years later, became an executive producer of Unit B, where he built its reputation as the NFB’s most honoured creative arm.
He retired in 1984 with a legacy of more than 300 films, produced over 44 years.
