Terence Heffernan

Terence Heffernan (October 10, 1941 – January 13, 1998) was a Canadian screenwriter and playwright.[1] He was most noted for writing the film Heartaches,[2] for which he won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 3rd Genie Awards.[3]

The son of former Montreal Canadiens hockey player Gerald Heffernan,[1] Heffernan was educated at Lower Canada College.[4] His theatrical play Blossom Hill was produced by Montreal's Shoestring Theatre in 1961.[4] The play was also produced for television as part of Shoestring Theatre's CBC Television anthology series. He subsequently submitted a script to the CBC anthology series Festival; although it was not produced, it led to Eric Till directing his screenplay for A Great Big Thing in 1968.[5]

Terry worked with Suzanne Findlay as his editor in his early Toronto days and later often worked with filmmaker Don Shebib.

His other film screenplays included Mahoney's Last Stand,[6] The Young Adventurers and Change of Heart.[4]

He died in 1997 of lung cancer in Thailand.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Lives Lived: Terence Heffernan". The Globe and Mail, February 18, 1998.
  2. ^ "Shebib cursed with idle hands: Goin' Down the Road is a Canadian film classic; how could its director miss the tax shelter boat". The Globe and Mail, August 8, 1981.
  3. ^ "Genie Awards 1980-2012". Northern Stars.
  4. ^ a b c "Terence Heffernan – Biography". Northern Stars.
  5. ^ Wendy Michener, "How Canada lost a film and found a good writer". Maclean's, March 1, 1967.
  6. ^ "Mahoney: deadbeat boredom". The Globe and Mail, June 23, 1977.