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Born in Toronto, Ontario , he is the son of Francis John Moore, an Anglican theologian, and Dora Mavor Moore ( 1888 - 1979 ), a teacher and director who helped establish Canadian professional Theatre in the 1930s and 1940s . Mavor graduated with a BA from the University Of Toronto in 1941 . During World War II , he was an intelligence officer. He has created more than 100 Plays , Documentaries , Musicals and Librettos for Stage , Radio and Television . From 1970 to 1984 , Mavor taught theatre history as a Professor at York University . He was the first artist to chair the Canada Council from 1979 to 1983 . In 1994 he wrote a biography, ''Reinventing Myself''. In 1973 he was made an Officer of the Order Of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1988 . In 1999 he was appointed to the Order Of British Columbia . In 1943 , he married Darwina Faessler, with whom he had four children. His second marriage, in 1968, was to Phyllis Grosskurth , ending in divorce in 1978 . In 1980 , he married opera singer Alexandra Browning. EXTERNAL LINK |
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