Ted Follows

This article is about the Canadian actor. For the Canadian bishop, see Ted Follows (bishop).

Ted Follows
Born	Edward James Follows November 30, 1926 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	October 21, 2016 (aged 89) Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Education	University of Toronto
Spouses	Dawn Greenhalgh ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1979)​ Susan Trethewey ​ (m. 1988)​
Children	4, including Megan
Relatives	Sean O'Bryan (son-in-law)

Edward James Follows (November 30, 1926 – October 21, 2016) was a Canadian film, television and stage actor. He was best known for playing the role of Macduff in Macbeth at the Stratford Festival and the 1961 CBC Television film adaptation, and his television roles as the title character in the CBC drama series McQueen, as crown attorney Arnold Bateman in Wojeck, and as Charles Tupper, Minister of Railways, in The National Dream.

Early life and education

Follows was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1926 to Edward James Follows and Isabella (née Latimer) Follows, and had a younger brother, Jack. He was raised in a variety of locations across Canada as his father was a serviceman with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Ted Follows attended high school in Winnipeg. He studied psychology at the University of Toronto, also acting in Hart House theatre productions, and following his graduation he had his first professional acting role in 1945.

Career

Over the next number of years, Follows regularly toured Canada and the United Kingdom with the Canadian Players and the Canadian Repertory Theatre Company, before being invited to join the Stratford company in 1955.

In 2001, Follows directed a production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever in Gravenhurst, with a cast that included himself, Greenhalgh, all of their children and their children's spouses. They subsequently mounted a tour of the production to several Southern Ontario cities in 2003.

Personal life

He married actress Dawn Greenhalgh in 1958. The couple had four children, including actress Megan Follows, before divorcing in 1979. Follows later remarried to Susan Trethewey, a musician with the Stratford Festival Orchestra in 1988.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1953	Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue	Douglas MacGregor
1957	Oedipus Rex	Chorus
1973	Paperback Hero	Cagey
1980	Virus	Dr. Baines
1989	Cold Comfort	Roy

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Sunday Night Theatre	Pvt. Brown	Episode: "The Promised Years #2: The Good Partners"
1956–1961	General Motors Theatre	Various roles	12 episodes
1959	Hudson's Bay	Sam Gifford	2 episodes
1960	The Unforeseen	Charles	Episode: "Desire"
1960	Startime	Raphael	Episode: "The Zeal of Thy House"
1960–1962	Festival	Hurst / Mickser / Major	4 episodes
1961	Macbeth	MacDuff	Television film
1961	The Conquest of Cobbletown	Fred Cobble	Television film
1961	Quest	Wu	2 episodes
1961–1962	Playdate	Various roles	6 episodes
1963	The United States Steel Hour	Seaton	Episode: "The Troubled Heart"
1966	Seaway	David Miller / Darby	3 episodes
1966–1968	Wojeck	Arnie Bateman	4 episodes
1969	Quentin Durgens, M.P.	Cabinet minister	Episode: "Master of the House"
1969–1970	McQueen	McQueen	14 episodes
1974	The National Dream	Charles Tupper	Episode: "The Great Debate"
1974	Performance	Immigration Officer	Episode: "Find Volopchi!"
1979	The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight	Leblanc	Television film
1979	The Great Detective	Percy	Episode: "Death Takes a Curtain Call"
1980–1982	The Littlest Hobo	Various roles	5 episodes
1988	War of the Worlds	General Arquette	2 episodes
1992	E.N.G.	Commissioner	Episode: "True Patriot Love"
1992	Wojeck: Out of the Fire	Arnold Bateman	Television film
1993	Matrix	Mr. Preston	Episode: "The Yellow Chamber"
1993	Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story	Airplane Man	Television film
1993	JFK: Reckless Youth	Patsy Mulkern	2 episodes

External links

• Ted Follows at IMDb