https://nypost.com/2024/01/22/entertainment/moonstruck-director-norman-jewison-dead-at-97/
He directed the famous 1967 Sidney Poitier movie “In the Heat of the Night,” the original “Fiddler on the Roof,” the 1968 thriller “The Thomas Crown Affair,” starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and the 1987 Nicolas Cage and Cher rom-com, “Moonstruck.”
Jewison was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Dorothy Irene (née Weaver) and Percy Joseph Jewison (1890–1974),[3] who managed a convenience store and post office.[4] He attended Kew Beach School and Malvern Collegiate Institute, and while growing up in the 1930s displayed an aptitude for performing and theatre. He is often mistaken for being Jewish due to his surname and direction of Fiddler on the Roof, but Jewison and his family are Protestants of English descent.
He directed the famous 1967 Sidney Poitier movie “In the Heat of the Night,” the original “Fiddler on the Roof,” the 1968 thriller “The Thomas Crown Affair,” starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and the 1987 Nicolas Cage and Cher rom-com, “Moonstruck.”
Jewison was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Dorothy Irene (née Weaver) and Percy Joseph Jewison (1890–1974),[3] who managed a convenience store and post office.[4] He attended Kew Beach School and Malvern Collegiate Institute, and while growing up in the 1930s displayed an aptitude for performing and theatre. He is often mistaken for being Jewish due to his surname and direction of Fiddler on the Roof, but Jewison and his family are Protestants of English descent.
