Through Wilder, Findley became a close friend of actress Ruth Gordon, whose work as a screenwriter and playwright inspired Findley to consider writing as well. Findley and Whitehead also collaborated on several documentary projects in the 1970s, including the television miniseries The National Dream and Dieppe 1942. Eventually he became the domestic partner of writer Bill Whitehead, whom he met in 1962. Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress/photographer Janet Reid in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later.
He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. He was part of the original Stratford Festival company in the 1950s, acting alongside Alec Guinness, and appeared in the first production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker at the Edinburgh Festival. He pursued a career in the arts, studying dance and acting, and had significant success as an actor before turning to writing.
Andrew's College (although leaving during grade 10 for health reasons). He was raised in the upper class Rosedale district of the city, attending boarding school at St. His paternal grandfather was president of Massey-Harris, the farm-machinery company. One of three sons, Findley was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Allan Gilmour Findley, a stockbroker, and his wife, the former Margaret Maude Bull. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials. Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright.
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