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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]

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References

  1. "Good idea tossed away". Toronto Star , November 5, 1973.
  2. "Fortune and Men's Eyes: earnest prison drama". The Globe and Mail , June 24, 1971.
  3. "New Quebec film sweeps 8 Canadian film awards". Toronto Star , October 2, 1971.
  4. "Fortune given rave reviews at Venice fest". The Gazette. 3 September 1971. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  5. "Delay improves group, not play". The Globe and Mail , November 24, 1969.
  6. "Muraille chooses badly for opener". Toronto Star , November 6, 1969.
  7. "Passe Muraille play full of dazzlement". Toronto Star , November 20, 1971.
  8. "A fine ride with Broom Hilda". The Globe and Mail , May 8, 1975.
  9. Kate Taylor, "A primer on Toronto’s General Idea, Canada’s most radical art collective". The Globe and Mail , June 1, 2022.
  10. "People". The Gazette. 3 September 1981. Retrieved 18 January 2023.