Canadian film director Norman Jewison was born July 21, 1926 in Toronto, Ontario.

 

 

Norman Jewison
Issued by Canada Post in 2024
Designer: Russell Gibbs, Russell Gibbs Design
Photographer: Peter Bregg, stamp image
Photographer: Bob Olsen, FDC image

Norman Jewison began his career with the BBC in 1950 and the CBC the following year, 1951 before moving on to a career in Hollywood making films like In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Moonstruck (1987), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), A Soldier’s Story (1984) and The Hurricane (1999). He was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 1999 Oscars.  

Norman Jewison | The Canadian Encyclopedia has a good writeup. 

The stamp photo was taken by Peter Bregg for HELLO! Canada’s coverage of Canadian Film Centre in 2007. The photo on the FDC and the background of the booklet inside, was Bob Olsen for the Toronto Star in 1979. Jewison was involved in picking the photos for this stamp prior to his death on January 2024. 

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