Greg Gormick (Clyde Gilmour)

Greg Gormick is a Toronto based researcher, writer, interviewer, broadcaster, columnist and policy analyst. He was educated at Ryerson Polytechnic University (School of Journalism) between 1975 and 1978. He worked as a contract archivist during the late 1970s, arranging audiovisual and textual material for such notable artists and organizations as Johnny Green, Leo Robin, Betty Garrett Parks, and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music and Sound Departments.
From 1978 – 1984, Gormick served as a writer and researcher for CBC Agriculture and Resources documentaries and the quiz show Reach for the Top. During this time, he also served as the Los Angeles production coordinator for the award-winning TVO program, Saturday Night at the Movies (Gormick conducted most of the pre-interviews with older Hollywood personalities). While in Los Angeles, he also worked as a writer and music advisor for both Columbia Pictures Television and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co.
Upon returning to Canada, Gormick worked for CBC Radio as an on-air host and writer (1982 – 1995), and as a Canadian contributor for BBC Radio (1987 – 1991).
During the 1990s, Gormick’s professional focus shifted to communications and policy analysis (particularly in the areas of transportation and urban planning), though he also contributed written and audio materials for the Ryerson University/Canadian Communications Foundations’ History of Canadian Broadcasting website. Gormick currently lives in Toronto.
Gormick was a collaborator and close friend of celebrated critic and broadcaster Clyde Gilmour, and when Gilmour died Gormick became the recipient and facilitator of Gilmour’s collection. Clyde Gilmour was born in Calgary in 1912, and grew up in Edmonton, Lethbridge, AB and Medicine Hat, AB. He worked as a journalist in Western Canada and served as a war correspondent in the Navy before devoting himself to film and music criticism. After marrying Barbara Donald in 1947, Gilmour began contributing film reviews to CBC Vancouver; soon, he was also writing reviews for Maclean’s and the Vancouver Sun. In 1954, the couple moved to Toronto where Gilmour wrote a column for the Toronto Telegram (after that paper’s demise in 1971, he wrote for The Toronto Star). Gilmour’s Albums, a weekly hour-long program featuring selections from Gilmour’s own wide-ranging collection, was launched in 1956. The program became the longest-running network radio music show in CBC history, as well as the network’s highest-rated music show. Gilmour frequently acknowledged his wife Barbara, who conducted research and answered mail, as his ‘silent partner’.
Gilmour was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1975, and he was enrolled in the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1990. He died in 1997 at the age of 85.
He had two children, Jane and Paul Gilmour.

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Clyde Gilmour, Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/clyde-gilmour

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