Elva Mai Hoover
Elva Mai Hoover is a Canadian actress.
She is best known for her performance as Betty Fox in" The Terry Fox Story", for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, and her television roles as Mrs. Edison in" The Edison Twins" and Mrs. Lawson in" Road to Avonlea".
She has also had guest and supporting roles in other films and television series, but was active primarily as a stage actor, most notably as painter Anne Langton in Molly Thom's" The Bush- Ladies".
She is the mother of writer Gemma Files, through her marriage to Australian actor Gary Files.
The Terry Fox Story
The Terry Fox Story is a 1983 Canadian- American biographical film of Canadian amputee and runner Terry Fox.
It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by Ralph L. Thomas.
The film stars Eric Fryer as Fox, Chris Makepeace as his brother Darrell, and Robert Duvall as Fox's publicist, Bill Vigars.
The cast also includes Rosalind Chao, R. H. Thomson, Elva Mai Hoover, Michael Zelniker, Saul Rubinek and Patrick Watson.
The film was produced for HBO in the United States with Canadian co-producers.
Although it was also released in Canadian and British theatres, it was the first television film ever made for a cable network.
The movie included the song Runner, written by rock artist Ian Thomas in response to the coverage of Terry Fox's efforts.
Sarah Thompson (athlete)
Sarah Lucy Thompson( née Gentile; died August 23, 2010) was a Canadian athlete and powerlifter.
Throughout her career, Thompson set multiple records in powerlifting and athletics.
She was inducted into the Belleville Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Terry Fox Hall of Fame in 2000.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American Technicolor period drama film that tells a story of a teenage girl navigating her feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.
Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and who won an Oscar for his screenplay, the film was directed by Elia Kazan and features a score by jazz composer David Amram.
Jeneece Edroff
Jeneece Edroff( born January 21, 1994) is a Canadian philanthropist who has fundraised over a million dollars for Variety, the Children's Charity.
She was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame in 2006 and awarded with multiple medals including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
Eric Fryer (actor)
Eric Fryer is a Canadian actor, who played Terry Fox in the 1983 biopic" The Terry Fox Story".
Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, he was cast because he was a leg amputee who had some physical resemblance to Fox.
As he was a novice actor, however, the film's producers hired Rosemary Dunsmore as a dedicated acting coach to guide Fryer in performing.
At the time of his casting he did not appreciate what Fox had done, telling" The Globe and Mail" that" he was n't an inspiration because, when that's happening to you, you're in your own little world.
I just wanted to get on with my own life and not worry about some guy who was running across Canada.
I wanted to get myself together."
After acting Fox's life onscreen his perspective changed, however, and he began telling the press that working on the film had given him greater insight into Fox's determination and the scope of his achievement.
Fryer won the award for Best Actor at the 5th Genie Awards.
He only appeared in two other minor acting roles thereafter, appearing in episodes of" The Beachcombers High Tension", February 19, 1984) and" Home Fires".
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan( born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek- American director, producer, writer and actor, described by" The New York Times" as" one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
He was born in Constantinople( now Istanbul, Turkey), to Cappadocian Greek parents.
After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theatre in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947.
With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced" Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg.
Kazan acted in a few films, including" City for Conquest"( 1940).
Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins.
He directed a string of successful films, including" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951)," On the Waterfront"( 1954), and" East of Eden"( 1955).
During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director, three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes.
He also received an Honorary Oscar.
His films were concerned with personal or social issues of special concern to him.
Kazan writes," I do n't move unless I have some empathy with the basic theme."
His first such" issue" film was" Gentleman's Agreement"( 1947), with Gregory Peck, which dealt with anti-Semitism in America.
It received 8 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, including Kazan's first for Best Director.
It was followed by" Pinky", one of the first films in mainstream Hollywood to address racial prejudice against African Americans.
In 1954, he directed" On the Waterfront", a film about union corruption on the New York harbor waterfront.
" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role.
In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's" East of Eden", which introduced James Dean to movie audiences.
A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a witness before the House Committee on Un- American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which brought him strong negative reactions from many liberal friends and colleagues.
His testimony helped end the careers of former acting colleagues Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, along with the work of playwright Clifford Odets.
The two men had made a pact to name each other in front of the committee.
Kazan later justified his act by saying he took" only the more tolerable of two alternatives that were either way painful and wrong."
Nearly a half- century later, his anti-Communist testimony continued to cause controversy.
When Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999, dozens of actors chose not to applaud as 250 demonstrators picketed the event.
Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and 1960s with his provocative, issue- driven subjects.
Director Stanley Kubrick called him," without question, the best director we have in America,[ and] capable of performing miracles with the actors he uses."
Film author Ian Freer concludes that even" if his achievements are tainted by political controversy, the debt Hollywood —and actors everywhere—owes him is enormous."
In 2010, Martin Scorsese co- directed the documentary film" A Letter to Elia" as a personal tribute to Kazan.
Terry Fox (artist)
Terry Fox (1943 – October 14, 2008) was an American video, conceptual, sound, and performance artist.
Betty Fox
Betty Lou Fox( née Wark; November 15, 1937 – June 17, 2011) was a Canadian cancer research activist, the mother of Terry Fox and founder of the Terry Fox Foundation.
She was the most prominent figure in Terry Fox's legacy.
Ralph L. Thomas
Ralph L. Thomas( born September 8, 1939) is a Brazilian- born Canadian film director and screenwriter.
He was born in São Luís, Maranhão to Canadian Baptist missionary parents and grew up there and in Canada.
He attended the University of Toronto for two years and began to write for the entertainment pages of the" Toronto Star" in 1963.
He is married to Vivienne Leebosh, film producer.
He was earlier married to Dorothy Thomas, a Toronto City Councillor.
He directed his first film in 1977 for CBC Television, a made- for- TV movie called" Tyler".
He continued to make movies for television for a few years before he got his big break directing the feature film" Ticket to Heaven".
The film won Best Motion Picture at the Genie Awards and Thomas was nominated for Best Director.
His follow- up film," The Terry Fox Story", also won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture.
Thomas continued to direct feature and television films until 1996, although he opted to have his name removed from his 1989 film" The First Season" following producer interference in the editing.

Question: Are the directors of films The Terry Fox Story and Splendor In The Grass both from the same country?
Answer: no