====== Chisholm, John James ====== 
 (1899-23 April 1983), Hollywood stuntman, Canadian filmmaker, and Toronto film library proprietor. (Jack Chisholm) Born at Dunvegan, GC. Parents: Roderick (Rory) J. Chisholm and his wife Mary Burke. Jack Chisholm spent a few years of his childhood in the 9th Concession of Lochiel Township. He was educated at Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute and Ontario Agricultural College (B.S.A., 1923). Jack Chisholm was a stuntman in Hollywood between 1923 and 1938, performing in over 500 films. Chisholm especially valued doubling for Gary Cooper in “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer” (1935). (This turned out to be Hitler’s favourite movie) Chisholm also acted as a stand-in in films and got experience in scriptwriting and production. In 1938, he returned to Canada . There he made many documentaries and newsreels during World War II for Associated Screen News Ltd, and founded Jack Chisholm Film Productions in 1955. This firm made many industrial documentary films and developed and operated a large and important film rental and supply library in Toronto. Chisholm was the founding president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada, now known as the Canadian Film & Television Association. Since 1979, this organization has given the Jack Chisholm Award, which is sponsored by Kodak. Chisholm was a friend of Stephen Leacock and was praised by Harry J. Boyle for the care and attention he gave to Leacock’s “difficult” son Stevie. Chisholm died at Providence Villa Hospital, in Toronto. He was married to Florence Massey Baker.


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<fs small>//Glengarry News// 4 May 1983, //Vankleek Hill Review// 18 May 1983 * information from University of Guelph including obituaries and his entry (with portrait) in the 1923 Ontario Agricultural College yearbook where he is saluted in verse as “The Man from Glengarry.” * programme-menu of dinner at which the Canadian Film and Television Association paid tribute to him on 2 March1977 (includes portrait and biog. note) * copy (which reached the present author by way of Neil D. MacLeod at Maxville Manor) of the author Harry J. Boyle’s typescript “Tribute to Jack Chisholm,” probably a eulogy delivered at Chisholm’s funeral * Peter Morris, //Canadian Feature Films: 1913-1969//, Part I * //Lochinvar to Skye// 229-233, 335 * no copy has been located of a reported article on Jack Chisholm, “He’ll Rent You a Sunset for $5 a Foot,” //The Canadian Magazine//, but it was presumably the basis of an article (with portrait) on Chisholm in the //GN// 30 May 1974 * another film (and TV) stunt man, Johny Goar, GC resident, //GN// 27 Feb. 1991
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