Ed McNamara

{{Short description|Canadian actor}}

{{For|the American politician from Michigan|Edward H. McNamara}}

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| name = Ed McNamara

|birth_name = Edward Francis McNamara

| birth_date = 21 June 1921

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|10|11|1921|06|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| other_names =

| occupation = Actor

| years active = 1941–1986

| spouse = Peg Dixon

| nationality = Canadian

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Edward Francis McNamara (21 June 1921 – 11 October 1986) was a Canadian film actor.[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ed-mcnamara "Ed McNamara"]. The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 10, 2012. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1941 to 1986.{{cite news|title=Award-winning actor who loved his work Ed McNamara is dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26854575/|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=October 15, 1986|page=60|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 4, 2019}}

At the 27th Canadian Film Awards in 1976, McNamara and his costar Hugh Webster jointly won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor in a Non-Feature for their performances in For Gentlemen Only,Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}. and McNamara received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986, for his performance in Bayo."Genie movies something to celebrate". Toronto Star, March 16, 1986. In the same year, he posthumously received the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement at the 1st Gemini Awards.