Sinclair, Lister 1921-2006 (Lister Shedden Sinclair)

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See index for CA sketch: Born January 9, 1921, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; died October 16, 2006, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Broadcaster, business executive, and author. Sinclair was a Canadian playwright and broadcaster who helped found the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists. Although born in India, he spent much of his childhood in Britain and was visiting the United States with his mother when World War II began. Rather than return to besieged England, they stayed in Canada, where the family eventually settled permanently. Sinclair went to college there, earning a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1942 and an M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945. He began work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1944 and was a music critic beginning in 1947. Sinclair rose through the ranks over the years, becoming an executive producer by 1967 and executive vice president by 1972. It was in the early 1970s, too, that he helped create the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists. Also an actor and broadcaster, he hosted the CBC radio show Ideas from 1983 until his retirement in 2000. Sinclair was a prolific author, and during his years in radio and television he penned hundreds of plays, as well as contributing scripts to such series as The Nature of Things and Horizon. Many of his plays appeared in anthologies; his own books include A Play on Words and Other Radio Plays (1948), The Blood Is Strong: A Drama of Early Scottish Settlement in Cape Breton (1956), and the cowritten Darwin and the Galapagos (1966).

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Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2006, p. B11.