Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Fox, David
Photo courtesy of Theatre Passe Muraille.
Actor David Fox was born in 1941 in Swastika, Ontario, and taught high school from 1963 to 1972. He has played rural characters in the premieres of several collective creation s at Theatre Passe Muraille , including The Farm Show(1972), 1837:The Farmer's Revolt, As Far as the Eye Can See (with Rudy Wiebe), Studhorse Man, Les Maudits Anglais, and Them Donnellys. He appeared in John Murrell 's Further West directed by Robin Phillips at Theatre Calgary in 1981; in Anne Chislett 's Quiet in the Land , and Ted Johns ' Garrison's Garage at the Blyth Festival ; in George F. Walker's Art of War and Nothing Sacred for Toronto's Factory Theatre and Canadian Stage .
Recent theatre credits include the part of Angus in The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey , in the Theatre Passe Muraille production (1999), and in the national tour (2001/02); and of Ezra Pound in the 2001 Stratford Festival production of The Trials of Ezra Pound by Timothy Findley .
Television appearances include a recurring role as teacher Clive Pettibone in Road to Avonlea. Recent film credits include Paul Quarrington's Moon and Mann and A Man's Life (2001 Montreal Film Festival); 2001: A Space Travesty with Leslie Nielsen; and Washed Up, written and directed by Michael DiCarlo.
He is the recipient of a Sterling Award for his role in Paul Quarrington's The Invention of Poetry, and of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for his role in the 1999 production of The Drawer Boy at Theatre Passe Muraille.
Source: James DeFelice , Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, eds. Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly, Toronto: Oxford UP, 1989.
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