Lorne is a given name and place name especially popular in Canada, due to the Marquess of Lorne, who was Governor-General of Canada (1878–1883). Lorne may refer to:

Look up Lorne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

People[link]

Given name[link]

• Lorne Anderson (1931–1984), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Babiuk (born 1946), Canadian scientist
• Lorne Bonnell (1923–2006), Canadian politician
• Lorne Calvert (born 1954), Canadian politician
• Lorne Campbell, Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Cardinal (born 1964), Canadian actor
• Lorne Carr (1910–2007), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Chabot (1900–1946), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Clarke (born 1928) Canadian judge
• Lorne Currie (1871–1926), British sailor
• Lorne Davis (1930–2007), Canadian hockey player and scout
• Lorne Duguid (1910–1981), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Elliott (born 1974), Canadian comedian
• Lorne Entress, American musician
• Lorne Ferguson (born 1930), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Frohman, Canadian comedy writer and producer
• Lorne Greenaway (born 1933), Canadian politician
• Lorne Greene (1915–1987), Canadian-born television actor
• Lorne Henderson (1920–2002), Canadian politician
• Lorne Henning (born 1952), Canadian hockey executive
• Lorne Kusugak, Canadian politician
• Lorne Lanning (born 1964), American game designer
• Lorne Lofsky (born 1954), Canadian jazz musician
• Lorne Loomer (born 1937), Canadian rower
• Lorne Mayencourt (born 1957), Canadian politician
• Lorne Michaels (born 1944), Canadian-born television producer
• Lorne Molleken (born 1956), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Nystrom (born 1946), Canadian politician
• Lorne Reznowski (1929–2002), Canadian politician
• Robert Lorne Richardson (1860–1912), Canadian journalist
• Lorne Rubenstein, Canadian sports journalist
• Lorne Sam (born 1984), American football player
• Lorne Saxberg (1958–2006), Canadian television anchorman
• Lorne Spicer (born 1965), British television presenter
• Lorne Stamler (born 1951), Canadian hockey player
• Lorne Taylor (born 1944), Canadian politician
• Lorne Trottier (born 1948), Canadian businessman
• Lorne Welch (1916–1988), British engineer and pilot
• Lorne Worsley (1929–2007), Canadian hockey player

Surname[link]

• John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada
• Dúghall of Lorne (died 1403), Scottish prelate
• Marion Lorne (1883–1968), American actress
• Tommy Lorne (1890–1935), Scottish comedian

Fiction[link]

• Lorne (Angel), fictional character in the television series Angel
• Evan Lorne, fictional character in the television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
• Lorne Starling, fictional character in the video game Neverwinter Nights 2
• Lorne de Havilland, assassination target in the video game Hitman: Blood Money

Places[link]

Australia

• Lake Lorne, Victoria
• Lorne, Victoria

Canada

• Lorne, Manitoba
• Lorne, New Brunswick
• Lorne (N.W.T. electoral district), Northwest Territories
• Lorne Park, Ontario
• Mount Lorne, Yukon
• Mount Lorne (electoral district), Yukon Territory

Scotland

• Firth of Lorne
• Lorne, Scotland

Other uses[link]

• Lorne plateau lavas
• Lorne's sausage or Sliced sausage, a large square sausage served in slices and popular in Scotland
• Marquess of Lorne, courtesy title for the Duke of Argyll's eldest son and heir, currently Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Lorne

See also[link]

• Loren (disambiguation)

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Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene, 1942
Born	Lyon Himan "Chaim" Green (1915-02-12)February 12, 1915 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	September 11, 1987(1987-09-11) (aged 72) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1941–1987
Spouse	Rita Hands (1938 – 1960) Nancy Deale (December 17, 1961 – September 11, 1987)

Lorne Greene, OC (February 12, 1915^[1] – September 11, 1987), was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green,^[1] a Canadian actor and musician.

His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness, and in television commercials as a dog food spokesman.

Early life[link]

Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Daniel and Dora Green (Grinovsky). He was called "Chaim" by his mother, and his name is shown as "Hyman" on his school report cards. In his biography, the author, his daughter Linda Greene Bennett, stated that it was not known when he began using "Lorne", nor when he added an "e" to Green.^[1]

Greene began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, where he also acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station CFRC. He gave up on a career in chemical engineering and, upon graduation, found a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

Career[link]

as Ben Cartwright in Bonanza (1960)

Greene was assigned as the principal newsreader on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the nickname "The Voice of Canada"; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones following Canada's entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom". During his radio days, Greene invented a stopwatch that ran backwards.^{[citation needed]} Its purpose was to help radio announcers gauge how much time they had available while speaking. He also narrated documentary films, such as the National Film Board of Canada's Fighting Norway (1943). In 1957 Greene played the role of the prosecutor in the movie Peyton Place.

Actress and theater producer Katharine Cornell cast him twice in her Broadway productions. In 1953, he was cast in The Prescott Proposals. In that same year, she cast him in a verse drama by Christopher Fry, The Dark is Light Enough (play).

Greene began appearing on isolated episodes on live television in the 1950s. In 1953, he was seen in the title role of a one-hour adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, and in 1955, he was rather incongruously cast as Ludwig van Beethoven in an episode of the televised version of You Are There.^[2]

The first of his continuing roles in a TV series was as the family patriarch Ben Cartwright on the western series Bonanza (1959–1973), making Greene a household name. He garnered the role after his performance as O'Brien in the CBS production of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In 1973, after the cancellation of Bonanza following a 14-year run, Greene joined Ben Murphy in the ABC crime drama, Griff, about a Los Angeles, California, police officer, Wade "Griff" Griffin, who retires to become a private detective. When Griff failed to gain sufficient ratings and was cancelled after thirteen episodes, Greene thereafter hosted the syndicated nature documentary series Last of the Wild from 1974 to 1975.^[3] In the 1977 miniseries Roots, he played the first master of Kunta Kinte, John Reynolds. Greene was the spokesman for Alpo Beef Chunks dog food commercials throughout the 1970s. In 2007, TV Guide listed Ben Cartwright as the nation's second most popular TV Father (behind Cliff Huxtable).

Lorne Greene (1969), by Allan Warren

Greene was also known for his role as Commander Adama, another patriarchal figure, in the science fiction feature film and television series Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979) and Galactica 1980 (1980). Greene's typecasting as a wise father character continued with the 1981 series, Code Red as a Fire Department Fire Chief whose command includes his children as subordinates. Greene also made an appearance with Michael Landon on an episode of Highway to Heaven.

In the 1960s, Greene capitalized on his image as "Pa" Benjamin Cartwright by recording several albums of country-western/folk songs, which Greene performed in a mixture of spoken word and singing. In 1964, Greene had a #1 single on the music charts with his spoken-word ballad, "Ringo" (which referred to the real-life Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo, not about Ringo Starr of the Beatles), and got a lot of play time from, "Saga of the Ponderosa", which detailed the Cartwright founding of the famous ranch. In the 1980s Greene devoted his energies to wildlife and environmental issues.^{[citation needed]} He was the host and narrator of the nature series, Lorne Greene's New Wilderness, a show which promoted environmental awareness.^{[citation needed]} He also appeared in the HBO mockumentary The Canadian Conspiracy, about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities. For nearly a decade, Greene co-hosted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC. He is also fondly remembered as the founder of Toronto's Academy of Radio Arts (originally called the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting).

Personal life[link]

Greene was married twice, first to Rita Hands of Toronto (1938–1960, divorced). Some reports list the start of their marriage as 1940. They had two children, twins born in 1945, Belinda Susan Bennet (née Greene) and Charles Greene.

His second wife was Nancy Deale (1961–1987, Greene's death), with whom he had one child, Gillian Dania Greene, born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California. In 1993, Gillian married actor/director/producer Sam Raimi; they have five children.

Death[link]

Greene died in 1987 of complications from pneumonia in Santa Monica, California. He was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City. Weeks before his death, he had been signed to appear in a revival of Bonanza, whose storyline included characters played by his own daughter Gillian, along with Michael Landon Jr.

Tributes[link]

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on October 28, 1969, "For services to the Performing Arts and to the community."^[4] He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by his alma mater, Queen's University, in 1971.^[5] Greene was the 1987 recipient of the Earle Grey Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Canadian Gemini Awards. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 N. Vine Street.

In May 2006, Greene became one of the first four entertainers to ever be honoured by Canada Post by being featured on a postage stamp.^{[citation needed]}

In February 1985, Greene was the Krewe of Bacchus King of Mardi Gras.^[6]

Filmography[link]

• Churchill's Island (1941) as narrator
• Warclouds in the Pacific (1941) as narrator
• Inside Fighting China (1941) as narrator
• Studio One's "1984" (1948) as O'Brien
• Othello (1953) (television) as Othello
• The Philip Morris Playhouse (one episode, 1953) — Joe
• Omnibus (one episode, 1953) — Ed Bailey
• Danger (one episode, 1954) — Stranger
• The Silver Chalice (1954) — Saint Peter
• Justice (one episode, 1954, "The Desperate One")
• You Are There (three episodes, 1954–1955) — Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Stewart Parnell
• Tight Spot (1955) — Benjamin Costain
• Climax! (one episode, 1955) — Dr. Charles Saunders
• The Elgin Hour (one episode, 1955) — Vernon Dyall
• Studio 57 (one episode, 1955) — Gentry Morton
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (one episode, 1956) — Mr. X
• Autumn Leaves (1956) — Mr. Hanson
• The Alcoa Hour (one episode, 1956) — Sheriff Gash
• Armstrong Circle Theatre (one episode, 1956) — Angelina
• The United States Steel Hour (one episode, 1956) — Dallas
• Sailor of Fortune (26 episodes, 1955–1956) as Capt. Grant 'Mitch' Mitchell
• Producers' Showcase (three episodes, 1955–1957) — Julius Caesar, Gorgas
• Kraft Television Theatre (one episode, 1957) — Col. Matthews
• Playhouse 90 (one episode, 1957) — Lowell Williams
• Studio One (five episodes, 1953–1957)
• Peyton Place (1957) — Prosecutor
• The Hard Man (1957) — Rice Martin
• The Gift of Love (1958) — Grant Allan
• Suspicion (one episode, 1958)
• Shirley Temple's Storybook (one episode, 1958) — King Bertrand
• The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) — Michael O'Reilly
• The Buccaneer (1958) — Mercier
• The Trap (1959) — Davis
• Bonanza (431 episodes, 1959–1973) — Ben Cartwright
• The Third Man (one episode, 1959)
• The Gale Storm Show (one episode, 1959) — Constable Barnaby
• Mike Hammer (two episodes, 1959) — Carl Kunard, Emmett Gates
• Bronco (one episode, 1959) — Capt. Amos Carr
• Wagon Train (one episode, 1959) as Christopher Webb
• Cheyenne (two episodes, 1960) — Colonel Bell
• Destiny of a Spy (1969) — Peter Vanin
• Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970) — George Washington
• The Harness (1971) — Peter Randall
• The Special London Bridge Special (1972) — Fiddler on the Roof
• Nippon Chinbotsu (1973) — Ambassador Warren Richards
• Griff (13 episodes, 1973–1974) — Wade Griffin
• Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (1974)
• Earthquake (1974) — Sam Royce
• Nevada Smith (1975) — Jonas Cord
• Man on the Outside (1975) — Wade Griffin
• Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976) — George Quartermain
• Roots (two episodes, 1977) — John Reynolds
• SST: Death Flight (1977) — Marshall Cole
• The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (two episodes, 1977) — Inspector Hans Stavlin
• The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977) — Matthew Arnold Watson
• The Bastard (1978) — Bishop Francis
• The Little Brown Burro (1978) — Storyteller (voice)
• Battlestar Galactica (21 episodes, 1978–1979) — Commander Adama
• The Love Boat (three episodes, 1979–1982) — Buck Hamilton, Buddy Bowers
• Klondike Fever (1980) — Sam Steele
• Galactica 1980 (ten episodes, 1980) as Commander Adama
• Living Legend: The King of Rock and Roll (1980)
• Pink Lady (one episode, 1980)
• Vega$ (two episodes, 1980) — Emil Remick
• A Time for Miracles (1980) — Bishop John Carroll
• Aloha Paradise (one episode, 1981) — Businessman
• A Gift of Music (1981) — Host
• Code Red (1981) — Captain Joe Rorchek
• Ozu no mahôtsukai (1982) — The Wizard (voice)
• Code Red (12 episodes, 1981–1982) — Battalion Chief Joe Rorchek
• Police Squad! (one episode, 1982) — Stabbed Man
• Heidi's Song (1982) — Grandfather (voice)
• Highway to Heaven (one episode, 1985) — Fred Fusco
• Noah's Ark (1986) — Noah (voice)
• Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986) — Theo Marshall
• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) — Gen. Sam Houston

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

See also[link]

Biography portal

• Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
• Western (genre)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lorne Greene at the Internet Movie Database
• Lorne Greene at the Internet Broadway Database

Lorne Balfe (born February 23, 1976) is a film score composer. Born in Inverness, Scotland, he works at the Remote Control Productions Studio.

Discography[link]

2012

• "The Frozen Ground"
• Assassin's Creed 3

2011

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (with Hans Zimmer)
• Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (with Hans Zimmer)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (with Jesper Kyd)
• Crysis 2 (with Hans Zimmer)
• The Dilemma (with Hans Zimmer)

2010

• Verizon 4G/LTE Lightning Bolt Commercial (Background Track music)
• Megamind (with Hans Zimmer)
• Inception (Additional Music)
• Ironclad
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Trailer)
• Salinger (Documentary about J. D. Salinger)

2009

• Angels & Demons (Additional Music)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Additional Music)
• Sherlock Holmes (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• Crying With Laughter
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (with Hans Zimmer)
• World War II in HD (Documentary)

2008

• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• Casi Divas (Musician : Percussion)
• Running The Sahara (Additional Music)
• Frost/Nixon (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music - Additional Recordings)
• The Dark Knight (Music by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard) (Additional Music)
• Iron Man (Music by Ramin Djawadi) (Additional Music)
• The Burning Plain (Music by Hans Zimmer and Omar Rodríguez-López) (Soloist)

2007

• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• The Simpsons Movie (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• The Simpsons Movie: The Music (Promo EP) (Additional Music) [Promotional Release]
• Transformers (Music by Steve Jablonsky) (Additional Music)
• Bee Movie (Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams) (Additional music)

2006

• 10.5: Apocalypse (Music by Henning Lohner) (TV) (Additional Music)
• Blood Rayne (Additional Music)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• The Da Vinci Code (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• The Holiday (Additional Music)

2005

• Santa's Slay (V) (Additional Music)
• Batman Begins (Music Programmer)
• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Music by Julian Nott)(Additional Music)
• Detective (Additional Music (uncredited))
• Prinz und Paparazzi (TV) (Additional Music)
• Kein Himmel über Afrika (TV) (Additional Music)
• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (VG) (Additional Music) [Promotional Release]
• True Crime (TV series)
• Mersey Cop (TV series)
• Have I Been Here Before ? (TV Documentary)
• Artworks Scotland (TV Documentary)
• The Jeremy Kyle Show (Talk Show TV)
• Hotel Rwanda (Music Programmer)

2004

• Long Way Round (TV documentary series) (Additional Music)
• Sterne leuchten auch am Tag (TV) (Additional Music)
• Hellraiser: Deader (Musice by Henning Lohner) (Additional Music)
• La Torcedura (Short Film) (Additional Music)
• King Arthur (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• Laura's Star (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
• Wimbledon (Additional Music (composer : Edward Shearmur))
• Shoebox Zoo (TV series)
• Manhunt (TV series)
• Crazy in Love (V)
• Loved, Alone (Short Film)
• Incident at Loch Ness (Additional Music)

2003

• Saving Jessica Lynch (TV) (Additional Music)
• Fahrerflucht (Short Film) (Additional Music)
• Mimic: Sentinel (Music by Henning Lohner) (V) (Additional Music)
• Crime Spree (Music Arranger (uncredited))
• What a Girl Wants (Music Arranger)
• Barstow (Additional Music)
• God Is No Soprano (Short Film) (Additional Music)
• William and Mary (TV series) (Additional Music)
• Second Nature (TV) (Addionnal Music)
• The Night We Called It A Day (Additional Music)

2002

• The Last Detective (TV series) (Additional Music)
• 666 - Traue Keinem, Mit Dem Du Schläfst ! (Additional Music)
• Most Haunted (TV series Documentary) (Additional Music)
• River City (TV series)
• Cigarette (Short Film)
• Animal Park(TV documentary)

2001

• The Wings Of A Film (Assistant to Hans ZIMMER)
• Ancient Warriors (Additional Music)

External links[link]

• Lorne Balfe at the Internet Movie Database
• Lorne Balfe Interview at www.reviewgraveyard.com

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Lorne Abony
Lorne Abony
Born	(1969-08-26) August 26, 1969 (age 42) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	McGill University, (BA, 1991), University of Windsor Faculty of Law (JD/LLB, 1994), Columbia Business School, (MBA)
Occupation	CEO and President, Mood Media[1]

Lorne Abony (born August 26, 1969) is a Canadian businessman. He is Chairman and CEO of Mood Media Corporation a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Abony has been instrumental in the founding of a number of media ventures. He Co-founded FUN Technologies in 2001 and in 2004 as CEO of FUN became the youngest CEO of a listed company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).^{[citation needed]}

Career and business experience[link]

Abony was born and raised in Toronto.^[2] After graduating from the University of Windsor law school in 1994, Abony practiced corporate and securities law at the Toronto firm Aird & Berlis.^[3] Abony left the law profession in 1996 to embark on an entrepreneurial career. In his role as CEO and founder of a number of successful ventures, Abony has raised over C$1.3 billion through the public and private debt and equity markets, including over $100 million for Petopia.com,^[4] $190 million for FUN Technologies^[5] and over $820 million for Mood Media^[6] .^[7]

Mood Media[link]

Abony is currently Chairman and CEO of Mood Media Corporation ("Mood Media"). Mood Media provides in-store media to over 575,000 locations worldwide, including clients such as McDonald's, Gucci, H&M, Hilton. With over 37 offices worldwide, and over 2,300 employees^[8][9][10]. In 2011 Mood Media was named the top company in the annual Profit 200 compiled by the Canadian business magazine Profit.^[11] Mood media currently has a market capitalization in excess of C$650mm and an enterprise value in excess of C$1.3bn^[12].

FUN Technologies[link]

In 2002, Abony co-founded Columbia Exchange Systems Software PLC with Andrew Rivkin after the two raised C$1.8 million from initial investors.^{[13][dead link]} Later renamed FUN Technologies, Abony became the company's CEO and the largest individual shareholder. In 2003, FUN completed an IPO on the London Stock Exchange raising over $11 million.^[13] Soon after, FUN listed its shares on the TSX raising over $56 million from a group of investors including Fidelity Investments, AGF Management and the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund. FUN became one of the fastest growing companies on the TSX and in three years raised over $160 million in five rounds of equity financing. FUN and its subsidiaries acquired seven businesses during Abony's tenure as CEO, including SkillJam Technologies Corporation, Don Best Sports, Fanball Interactive LLC, Octopi Inc., Teagames, WorldWinner Inc. and Fantasy Sports Inc.^[14][15]

The Meridian, Colorado-based Liberty Media acquired a majority interest in FUN Technologies stock in 2005.^[16] Liberty Media purchased the rest of FUN Technologies in late 2007.^[17] The company was valued at nearly C$500 million at the time of its final sale to Liberty Media.^[18]

Petopia.com[link]

In January 1998, Abony founded and served as the initial president of the online pet supply business Paw.net in San Francisco. The company, which was eventually renamed Petopia.com, grew to 200 full-time employees within two years and raised over $114 million in financing. Petopia.com was sold to Petco in 2001.^[19]

Green Dot (German: Der Grüne Punkt) Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD)[link]

The Green Dot symbol

Abony was part of the private equity syndicate that acquired Der Grüne Punkt (Green Dot) "DSD" from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts^[20] in 2011. Abony sits on the board of DSD and is one of its largest shareholders.^[21] DSD was founded in 1990 and was the first company to introduce a dual take-back system in Germany, in response to the Packaging Ordinance & Waste Act. The Green Dot (German: Der Grüne Punkt) is the license symbol of a European network of industry-funded systems for recycling the packaging materials of consumer goods. The logo is trademark protected worldwide. DSD employs 247 people in Germany,^[22] and is considered the largest dual take-back systems provider in Europe. In 2009, DSD recovered approximately 2.75 million tons of sales packaging, saved 60 billion megajoules of energy and reduced CO2 emissions (and its equivalents) by 1.5 million tons.^[22] According to Reuters, DSD a former non-profit organization, had 2009 sales of 684 million euros ($943 million).^[20]

Charitable Giving[link]

Abony is a strong supporter of educational based charities and tennis based charities.

Abony Tennis Center[link]

In 2012, Abony gave $250,000 to fund the Abony tennis center in Fredericton,NB ^[23]. The Abony Tennis Centre will be located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and will focus on developing tennis at the grassroots level. The Community Tennis Centre will be the only six-court tennis facility in the Maritime Provinces and, as such, will be a regional center for the growth of tennis and could serve as the Eastern Canadian regional training center. Additionally, it will attract indoor international events and will be a primary venue for provincial tournaments, wheelchair events, school programs, and programs for children, adults, and seniors.

Weiss School[link]

In April of 2012, Abony gave $500,000 to The Weiss School ^[24] the premier school for gifted education in Florida, to fund scholarships for gifted children and to to build a new kindergarten. Abony also organizes the [[The Weiss School] Tennis Pro-Am, a tennis tournament bringing professional players such as Vince Spadea, Rick Leach, Potito Starace, Guillermo Canas, Jared Palmer, Donald Johnson and others with amateur players like Abony to compete with all proceeds going directly to The Weiss School, in 2011 Abony helped raise over $200,000 for the school ^[25].

Israel Tennis Centers[link]

In November 2010 Abony made a $250,000 donation to Israel Tennis Centers^[26].

Education, Academia and Awards[link]

Abony earned a MBA from Columbia Business School,^[27] an LL.B/J.D. from the International Law Center at the University of Windsor and a B.A. from McGill University. He is a recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 award^[28] and an Ambassador for the Province of New Brunswick^[29] and in 2006 was a recipient of the University of Windsor's Odyssey award.^[30].

Abony sat on the Fraser Institute, a leading Canadian think tank Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2007.^[31]

Tennis[link]

Abony is a competitive tennis player. He was a member of the Team Canada men's tennis team ^[32] which competed in the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He also competes in the USTA Men's NTRP 5.0 Florida Section, where he was ranked fourth in the state in 2010.^[33] Abony also competes in both the ITF and USTA men's over 40 divisions in both the state and national level in both singles and doubles. Abony's doubles partner in the men's over 40 category is Jared Palmer ^[34][35] formerly the world #1 ranked doubles player and Wimbledon and Australian Open doubles champion.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Born to run — really fast (Profit)
• The New Masters Of The Universe Lorne Abony (Maclean's)
• Serial successes:Lorne Abony (Globe&Mail)
• Party animal (London Telegraph)

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Martin Short
Hosting Broadway on Broadway (September 2006)
Born	Martin Hayter Short (1950-03-26) March 26, 1950 (age 62) Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Residence	Pacific Palisades, California
Nationality	Canadian, American
Education	Westdale Secondary School
Alma mater	McMaster University
Occupation	Comedian, actor, screenwriter, singer, producer, voice actor
Years active	1972–present
Home town	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Spouse	Nancy Dolman (1980–2010; deceased)
Children	3

Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He starred in such comedic films as Three Amigos, Innerspace, Pure Luck, Jungle 2 Jungle, Mars Attacks!, Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride Part II and created the characters of Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley.

Early life[link]

Short, the youngest of five children, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Olive (née Hayter), a violinist, and Charles Patrick Short, a corporate executive with Stelco, a Canadian steel company. He and his siblings were raised Catholic.^[1] He had three older brothers, David (now deceased), Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora.^[2][3]

Short's father was a Catholic from Crossmaglen, South Armagh (present-day Northern Ireland), who came to North America as a stowaway during the Irish War of Independence.^[4][5] Short's mother, who was the concertmaster of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, encouraged Martin's early creative endeavours.^[1] His eldest brother, David, was killed in a car accident in 1962, when Short was 12. His mother died of cancer when he was 17; and, two years later in 1969, his father died of complications from a stroke.^[6]

Short attended Westdale Secondary School and graduated in 1972 from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work.^[7]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

When Short graduated from McMaster University, he intended to pursue a career in social work; however, he became interested in acting once he was cast in a Toronto production of Godspell that same year. Among other members of that production's cast were Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and Andrea Martin; Paul Shaffer was the Musical Director. He was subsequently cast in several television shows and plays, including the intense topical drama Fortune and Men's Eyes. He worked solely in Canada through 1979.

In 1979, Short starred in the U.S. sitcom The Associates about a group of young novice lawyers working at a Wall Street law firm. In 1980, he joined the cast of I'm a Big Girl Now, a sitcom starring Diana Canova. Canova was offered the sitcom because of her success playing Corinne Tate Flotsky on ABC's Soap and left Soap shortly before Short's newlywed wife Nancy Dolman joined it.

[edit] SCTV

Short was encouraged to pursue comedy by McMaster classmates Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas, whom he joined at improv troupe The Second City in Toronto in 1977. Short came to public notice when the troupe produced a show for television, Second City Television or SCTV, which ran for several years in Canada, then the United States. At SCTV Short developed several characters before moving on to Saturday Night Live for the 1984–1985 season:^[8]

• Talk show host Brock Linehan, based on the Canadian interviewer Brian Linehan
• Aged songwriter Irving Cohen, loosely based on American composer Irving Caesar
• Spurious albino entertainer Jackie Rogers, Jr.
• Current-events commentator Troy Soren
• Industrialist and art patron Bradley P. Allen
• Defense attorney Nathan Thurm
• Oddball man-child Ed Grimley, later featured in his own animated television series, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

[edit] Saturday Night Live

At SNL, Short helped revive the show with his many characters after Eddie Murphy left. Short's SNL characters included Wheel of Fortune fan Ed Grimley, which he borrowed from his SCTV days. The Grimley character became Short's best-known original character. He also was recognized for his impersonations of celebrities, notably Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn, and for the character of Nathan Thurm. SNL proved to be the springboard to a long career in film and TV.

Television[link]

In addition to his revered work on SCTV and SNL, Short has starred in several television specials and series of his own. In 1985, Short starred in the one-hour Showtime special, Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas. This is Short's first live concert, interspersed with studio sketches and a wraparound featuring Jackie Rogers Jr. Co-produced by the CBC, this aired as The Martin Short Comedy Special in Canada in March 1986. In 1989, Short headlined another one-hour comedy special, this time for HBO, I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood, Short's classic send-up of all things Hollywood. It featured many of his characters including: Lawrence Orbach, Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr, Bradley P. Allen, Troy Soren, and Dale O'Day (the dancing fence); released on VHS, it is now out of print.^{[citation needed]}

Short has had no fewer than three shows called The Martin Short Show, including a sitcom (The Martin Short Show, 1994), a sketch comedy show (The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show, 1995), and a syndicated talk show (The Martin Short Show, 1999). Short starred as Jiminy Glick on Comedy Central's Primetime Glick (2001–03). In addition to his own series, Short has guest starred on several shows including Arrested Development, Muppets Tonight, Law & Order: SVU, Weeds and most recently in a critically acclaimed turn as Leonard Winstone on FX's Damages. As of August 2010, Short is the voice of the Cat in the Hat in The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! on the Public Broadcasting Service.

Short recently shot a new comedy special for television in Toronto (in September 2011).^[9] The special, "I, Martin Short, Goes Home" follows Martin's return to his native Hamilton, Ontario and has a cast that includes Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty and Fred Willard. The special aired on CBC television on April 3, 2012 at 9:00pm EDT.

In 2011, Short joined the cast of How I Met Your Mother for its seventh season, playing Marshall Eriksen's manic boss.^[10] He is a judge on the upcoming Canadian reality show Canada's Got Talent.

Film[link]

After doing sketch comedy for several years, Short focused on film—appearing in ¡Three Amigos!, Innerspace, The Big Picture, Captain Ron, Clifford, and the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride and its sequel. In 1996, he appeared in Tim Burton's sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! as image-obsessed, hormonally driven Press Secretary Jerry Ross.

In 2004, he wrote and starred in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood with Jan Hooks as his wife, Dixie Glick. Also in 1997, he appeared as Wall Street broker Richard Kempster in Jungle 2 Jungle alongside Tim Allen. In 2006, he starred in another movie with Tim Allen, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Short was in Pure Luck, directed by Nadia Tass, with Danny Glover and Sheila Kelley^[11] and in Three Fugitives, directed by Francis Veber, with Nick Nolte and James Earl Jones. Short also provided the voices of several animated film characters, such as Huy in The Prince of Egypt (alongside Steve Martin as Hotep), Stubbs in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Hubie in The Pebble and the Penguin, B.E.N. in Treasure Planet, Ooblar in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Thimbletack the Brownie in The Spiderwick Chronicles.^{[citation needed]}

On August 31, 2007, he appeared as the new host of O Canada!, a 360° Circlevision film premiering at Walt Disney World's EPCOT theme park.^{[citation needed]}

He is cast as Stefano the sea lion in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.

Stage[link]

Short resumed work in the theater, playing a lead role in the 1993 musical version of the Neil Simon film The Goodbye Girl, on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination and an Outer Critics Circle Award.^[12][13]

He had the lead role in the 1999 Broadway revival of the musical Little Me, for which he received a Tony Award and another Outer Critics Circle Award.^[14][15][16]

In 2003, Short took to the stage once again in the critically acclaimed Los Angeles run of The Producers. Short played the role of the accountant, Leo Bloom, opposite Jason Alexander's Max Bialystock.^[17][18] Although the role of Leo Bloom was originated on Broadway by Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks first approached Short about doing the part opposite Nathan Lane.^[19] On the subject, Short has stated in numerous interviews that, while he was thrilled by the opportunity, the idea of having to move his family from their Los Angeles home to New York for a year was less than ideal and ultimately proved a deal-breaker.

Short performed in his satirical one-man show, with a cast of six, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. The show toured several cities in the spring of 2006, prior to opening on Broadway in August 2006; the show closed in January 2007. In it, he performed his classic characters Grimley, Cohen, and Glick.^[20][21]

As Glick, Short brought a member of the audience (usually a celebrity) on stage and interviewed him or her. Jerry Seinfeld was the guest on opening night. The show also featured parodies of many celebrities including Celine Dion, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Tommy Tune, Joan Rivers, Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Renée Zellweger, Jodie Foster, Rachel Ray, and Short's wife, actress Nancy Dolman. The cast album was released on April 10, 2007, and is available from Ghostlight Records, an imprint of Sh-K-Boom Records.^[22]

Short has continued to tour in his one-man show, which features many of his best-loved characters and sketches. In addition to Fame Becomes Me, some of the titles Short has used for his one-man show include Stroke Me Lady Fame, If I'd Saved, I Wouldn't Be Here, and, in more conservative markets, Sunday in the Park with George Michael. Short revealed in March 2011 that he plans to write a memoir, covering his 40 year career in show business.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Family[link]

Short met Canadian comic actress Nancy Dolman in 1972 during the run of Godspell. The couple married in 1980. Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to be a stay-at-home mom^[23] and raise her family. Nancy Dolman Short died August 21, 2010, from ovarian cancer.^[24] Short and Dolman have three children: Katherine (1983), Oliver (1986), and Henry (1990).^[25]

Short and his family make their home in Pacific Palisades, California. Short also has a home on Lake Rosseau in Ontario.^[26] He is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Short has two stars on Canada's Walk of Fame.^[27] His brother Michael Short is a comedy writer and twice winner of the Emmy Award for comedy sketch writing.

Extended family[link]

Dolman's brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman (who served as a part of SCTV's Emmy-winning writing team alongside Short), married their close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, also in 1980. Dolman and Short are aunt and uncle to the couple's two sons, Jack and Joe. Dolman and Martin have since divorced.^[28]

Short is a first cousin of Clare Short, a former member of the British Parliament and former British cabinet minister.^[29]

Awards and honours[link]

• 1972: Bachelor of Arts in social work: McMaster University
• 1982: Nelly Award: Outstanding Writing, SCTV Comedy Network
• 1983: Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program, SCTV Comedy Network; award shared
• 1993: Outer Critics Circle Award: Outstanding Actor in a Musical, The Goodbye Girl
• 1993: Theater World Award
• 1994: Member of the Order of Canada
• 1995: Earl Grey Life Time Achievement Award
• 1999: Outer Critics Circle Award: Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Little Me
• 1999: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Little Me
• 2000: Canada Walk of Fame
• 2001: Doctor of Letters honoris causa: McMaster University
• 2002: Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee Medal
• 2010: Emmy Awards Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Damages (TV Series)
• 2010: Satellite Awards Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Damages (TV Series)
• 2011: Emmy Awards Nominated for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (TV Series)

Filmography[link]

In-character quotes[link]

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• As Irving Cohen: "What hell kind of name is Roy!?"
• As Irving Cohen: "Give me a C, a bouncy C."
• As Irving Cohen (as his standard conclusion to an improvised song, of which he's sung a few bars, accompanied by replacing his cigar in his mouth): "...a dot dot dot, dee dee dee, and whatever the hell else you want to put in there."
• As Ed Grimley (indrawn breath): "I must say...".
• As Ed Grimley (clutching his burning fingers after removing a batch of cookies from the oven without using an oven mitt): "That's a pain that will tend to linger."
• As Bradley Allen: "You can't tell me that a woman who plays the tuba doesn't have a boyfriend somewhere... I mean who's going to carry the damn thing?"
• As Bradley Allen (drinking Scotch and declining tissues after a productive cough): "No, I got it."
• As Franc Eggelhoffer..."Every party has a pooper, that's why we invited you, party pooper, GEORGE BANKS! That's who!"
• As Jimminy Glick (talking about his past, moreso his weight problem) : "I was a loner as a child, a loner as a child because people would point, and children can be cruel."
• As Jack Frost (talking to a little girl who told him to chill) : "I invented chill!"
• As Jack Frost (talking to the other members of the Legendary Council) "Excuse me! Did you accuse me of being skillful and delicious? Guilty as charged!"
• As Huy.... "You're playing with the big boys now!"
• As Nathan Thurm (after being disproved): "I know that! You don't think I know that?"
• As Nathan Thurm (talking to the audience about his interviewer): "Is it me, or is it him? It's him, right?"

References[link]