1950–2002
Radio, concerts & screen
Long before The Transcontinental, Otto Lowy was a working man of the theatre: actor and director on the Vancouver stage, writer and translator for CBC Radio drama, and a familiar face in Canadian film and television.
Highlights
CBC Radio · 1967
Champagne Safari
A three-part spy serial built on the millionaire Charles Bedaux's real 1934 expedition from Edmonton into northern British Columbia, in country the Alaska Highway would cross eight years later. Revived in 1976–77 with John Neville as the agent John Grey.
CBC Radio · from 1967
Doublestrip
The comic-spy adventures of John Grey and his spymaster Ramsey, continued in Look for the White.
Translation
Central European drama in English
More than a hundred translations for CBC Radio, from Schnitzler, Brecht, Frisch's Mr. Everyman and the Firebugs, Dürrenmatt and Hildesheimer to Václav Havel's The Guardian Angel.
Memoir · c. 1985
40 Years Ago
A first-person radio monologue on his return to Prague in 1945 and the search for his mother, woven through with Kafka, Schnitzler and the music of Lehár.
Arts Club Theatre · 1964–1974
Seventeen productions
Involved from the theatre's first season in 1964, he directed comedies and dramas from Come Blow Your Horn to An Inspector Calls and The Odd Couple.
All his productions →Television · 1982–87
Play Gypsy and Man Alive
He wrote and starred in Play Gypsy, on the operetta composer Kálmán, and co-wrote the Man Alive documentary “The Precious Legacy” (“Journey to Prague”), nominated for a Gemini Award.
The stage
The plays, musicals and operettas he directed in Vancouver, with the original posters, have a page of their own →
On screen
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Scripts
Every radio play, translation, adaptation, concert narration and television script in the family collection.