Ronald Charles Tosh Weyman (December 13, 1915 – June 26, 2007) was a British-born Canadian film and television director and producer.
[1] He left formal employment at the NFB in 1953, and spent some time working in Italy on a documentary film for the United Nations.
Initially created to dramatize Canadian novels such as Thomas Head Raddall's The Wings of the Night, Thomas B. Costain's The Son of a Hundred Kings and Morley Callaghan's More Joy in Heaven,[1] in its later years the series expanded its focus when Weyman, drawing on his background in documentary film, began commissioning original television films which incorporated some documentary techniques into gritty, contemporary stories that addressed serious political and social issues.
In the 1970s, he continued to produce and direct television films for the CBC, including the miniseries The Albertans and adaptations of Margaret Laurence's novels The Fire-Dwellers and A Bird in the House.
[2] After retiring from the CBC in 1980, he wrote and published the memoir In Love and War, as well as three mystery novels which reimagined Sherlock Holmes as having been sent to Canada after surviving Reichenbach Falls.