
Elwy Yost
BA 1948 UC
- 2012 Award Recipient
Television personality Elwy Yost was best known as the avuncular host of TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies; he hosted more than 1,000 episodes over 25 years. He studied sociology at UC, and with a classmate, made a movie called In Between, one of the first independent films in Canada. A classic cinema enthusiast, he interviewed several movie stars for television and was the author of four books about film.