Edward James Follows (November 30, 1926 – October 21, 2016) was aCanadian film, television and stage actor.^[1] He was best known for playing the role ofMacduff inMacbeth at theStratford Festival and the 1961CBC Television film adaptation,^[2] and his television roles as the title character in the CBC drama seriesMcQueen,^[2] as crown attorney Arnold Bateman inWojeck,^[2] and asCharles Tupper, Minister of Railways, inThe National Dream.

Follows was born inOttawa,Ontario in 1926 to Edward James Follows and Isabella (née Latimer) Follows, and had a younger brother, Jack. He was raised in a variety of locations across Canada as his father was a serviceman with theRoyal Canadian Air Force. Ted Follows attended high school inWinnipeg.^[2] He studiedpsychology at theUniversity of Toronto, also acting inHart House theatre productions, and following his graduation he had his first professional acting role in 1945.^[2]

Over the next number of years, Follows regularly toured Canada and theUnited Kingdom with the Canadian Players and the Canadian Repertory Theatre Company, before being invited to join the Stratford company in 1955.^[2]

In 2001, Follows directed a production ofNoël Coward'sHay Fever inGravenhurst, with a cast that included himself, Greenhalgh, all of their children and their children's spouses.^[3] They subsequently mounted a tour of the production to several Southern Ontario cities in 2003.^[4]

He married actress Dawn Greenhalgh in 1958.^[2] The couple had four children, including actressMegan Follows, before divorcing in 1979.^[2] Follows later remarried to Susan Trethewey, a musician with the Stratford Festival Orchestra in 1988.^[2][5]

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