List of University of Trinity College People - Alumni - Media and Arts - Film, Television and Theatre

Film, Television and Theatre

• Frank Shuster (B.A. 1939 U.C.) – Comedian, member of the comedy duo Wayne & Shuster
• Johnny Wayne (B.A. 1940 U.C.) – Comedian, member of the comedy duo Wayne & Shuster
• Arthur Hiller (B.A. 1947 U.C., M.A. 1950) – Film director, The Man in the Glass Booth, Silver Streak
• Elwy Yost (B.A. 1948) – Television host, hosted Passport to Adventure series, Magic Shadows and Saturday Night at the Movies
• William Hutt (B.A. 1948 Trin.) – Actor of stage, television and film, King Lear, Long Day's Journey into Night, Sam Wanamaker Prize recipient
• Albert Wesley Johnson (M.PA.) – President of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1975–1982
• Norman Jewison (B.A. 1949 Vic.) – Film director, In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck
• Patrick Watson (M.A.) – Broadcaster and television writer, Titans, The Watson Report, The Canadian Establishment, Heritage Minutes
• Ted Kotcheff (B.A. 1952) – Film and television director, First Blood, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Leon Major (B.A. 1955) – Opera and theatre director, artistic director of Boston Lyric Opera, 1998–2003
• Daniel McCarthy (B.A. St. Michael's )– Children's television producer who helped create The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, and Sesame Park
• Peter Gzowski (dropped out) – Broadcaster, writer and reporter, the CBS radio show Morningside
• Donald Sutherland (B.A. 1958 Vic.) – Actor, The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H (film), Ordinary People, JFK
• William B. Davis (B.A. 1959) – Actor, known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files
• Lorne Michaels (B.A. 1966 U.C.) – Creator and producer of Saturday Night Live
• David Cronenberg (B.A. 1967 U.C.) – Film director, Videodrome, The Fly, A History of Violence
• Hart Hanson (B.A.) – American television writer and producer, Bones, Joan of Arcadia
• Stephen Stohn (J.D. 1977) – Entertainment lawyer and television producer, President of Epitome Pictures, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Instant Star
• Ron Mann (B.A. 1980 Innis) – Documentary filmmaker, Imagine the Sound, Grass
• Graham Yost (B.A. 1980 Trin.) – Screenwriter, Speed, Mission to Mars
• Atom Egoyan (B.A. 1982 Trin.) – Film director, The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies
• David Shore (LL.B. 1982) – Television screenwriter, House, Law & Order
• Heather Hiscox (B.A. 1986) – News anchor who works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, host of CBC News: Morning
• Mark Rowswell (B.A. 1988 U.C.) – Media personality, one of the best-known Western performers in China
• Tim Long (B.A. 1992 U.C.) – Comedy screenwriter, The Simpsons, Politically Incorrect, Spy Magazine, Late Show with David Letterman
• Lin Chi-ling (B.A.) – Taiwanese actress and model, Red Cliff
• Hannah Sung (B.A. 2000 Trin.) – Television and radio broadcaster, journalist, a former MuchMusic VJ
• Tom Perlmutter (M.B.A.) – Government Film Commissioner and Chair of the National Film Board of Canada