William Weintraub OC (February 19, 1926 – November 6, 2017) was a Canadian documentarian/filmmaker, journalist and author, best known for his long career with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
[1] The National Post wrote that he said that Torontonians should express their gratitude to a major benefactor of the city and erect a very large heroic statue at the head of Bay Street of former Premier of Quebec René Lévesque.
[3] Weintraub published four books after his seventieth birthday, including City Unique (1996), an exploration of English Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, which received the QSPELL Prize for Non-Fiction from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
[2] Weintraub's satirical 1979 novel The Underdogs provoked controversy by imagining a future socialist republic of Quebec, in which English-speakers were an oppressed minority, complete with a violent resistance movement.
[6] (All for the National Film Board of Canada)[7][8][9] Anniversary (1963) [10] Celebration (1966)[11] A Matter of Fat[12] Jack of Hearts (1985) [13] Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky (1985)[14] Red Shoes (1985) [15]