Kevin Tierney

Kevin Tierney (August 27, 1950 – May 12, 2018) was a Canadian film producer from Montreal who co-wrote and produced the most successful Canadian film ranked by domestic box office at the time, Bon Cop, Bad Cop, for which he earned a Golden Reel, the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture in 2007. He is a former vice-chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and former chair of the board of Cinémathèque québécoise.

Personal life and death Tierney was born in Montreal and raised in Park Extension, and graduated from Sir George Williams University (BA in 1971), Concordia University (Diploma in Comms Studies, 1978) and McGill University (BEd, Education, 1974). He then taught English as a second or foreign language (ESL) in Chad and China. Tierney learned Standard French at age 24 while teaching in Algeria. Tierney wrote an arts column in the Montreal Gazette newspaper. He produced Jacob's 2009 film The Trotsky. In 2009 he used his award from the Canadian Film and Television Production Association’s Producer of the Year Award at the Toronto International Film Festival to establish the Pat and Bill Tierney Scholarship at Concordia University, naming it after his parents.

Tierney died, after a three-year battle with cancer, on May 12, 2018, surrounded by his family.