Elwy Yost
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Elwy McMurran Yost, (July 10, 1925 – July 21, 2011) was a Canadian television presenter best known for hosting CBC Television's Weekday Magic Shadows from 1965 to 1967, TVOntario's weekday Magic Shadows from 1974 to 1999, and Saturday Night at the Movies from 1974 to 1999.
Early life
He was born in Weston, Ontario, and he was the son of pickle manufacturer Elwy Honderich Yost and Annie Josephine McMurran. Yost said in his youth that if his son would go to a movie on the condition that he'd then retell the plot, he'd be fined a penny. In 1943, Yost graduated from the Weston Collegiate and Vocational School.
He began studies at the University of Toronto in 1943 and studied engineering but decided against finishing his exams and joined the Canadian Infantry in 1944. In September 1945, he was honorably discharged. He worked in building, at the Canadian National Exhibition, made an independent film with a classmate, and appeared in summerstock theatres since graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948. In 1951, he was working in the Toronto Star's circulation department, where he first encountered his future wife, Lila Melby. He worked in the Avro Canada personnel department from 1953 to 1959, when he and the majority of the staff were laid off due to the cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. He spent time at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, teaching English and History.
Later life
Elwy Yost wrote White Shadows, a mystery book that was released in 2003.
Career in television
Yost learned that CBC was looking for quiz show panelists through his acting links. Yost appeared on television shows such as Live a Borrowed Life, The Superior Sex, and Flashback. He created and produced Passport to Adventure (TV series), a classic movie serial collection, in the mid-60s, and also assisted in the establishment of the Metropolitan Educational Television Authority (META).
He hosted CBC Radio's It's Debatable in the late 1960s.
He joined the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (later TVOntario) in the early 1970s as a manager and was involved in the establishment of its regional councils when he was told that the OECA had acquired the broadcast rights to three Ingmar Bergman films and was asked how the station could air them in an educational context. Three Films in Search of God added educational information in the form of interviews, introductions, and discussions, thus creating the model for what became Saturday Night at the Movies, which became the channel's longest-running, and one of the channel's most popular, shows. Yost's Magic Shadows, which featured classic serials in half-hour early evening installments with introductions giving background and interesting information; Rough Cuts – Talking Film and The Moviemakers He appeared in Ida Makes a Movie, the first of four television shorts that spawned The Kids of Degrassi Street in 1982 and later the Degrassi media brand.
The style of Saturday Night at the Movies was based on two films, separated by in-depth interviews conducted by Yost. The interviews were conducted with local film experts in the early days, but show's designers had the opportunity to talk with visiting stars when they had engagements in Toronto. Funds were discovered to bring Yost and a crew to Hollywood to conduct interviews with film stars as the series grew in popularity. The library holds interviews with actors, screenwriters, editors, film editors, film-editors, and often even their children.
Any regular viewers began to plan their Saturday nights in order to get just the interview section if they had already seen the night's films. A copy of the library of interviews was donated to the Motion Picture Academy when Yost retired from televisionOntario in 1999.
Graham Yost, his son, was a screenwriter whose most well-known work was the hit 1994 film Speed. Speed was the last movie Yost hosted before he resigned from Saturday Night at the Movies in 1999.
Yost wrote four books: Magic Moments from the Movies, Secret of the Lost Empire, Billy and the Bubbleship (also known as Mad Queen of Mordra) and White Shadows.