Terence Heffernan (October 10, 1941 – June 13, 1997) was a Canadian screenwriter and playwright.[1] He was most noted for writing the film Heartaches,[2] for which he won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 3rd Genie Awards.[3]
The son of former Montreal Canadiens hockey player Gerald Heffernan,[1] Heffernan was educated at Lower Canada College.[4] His theatrical play Blossom Hill was produced by Montreal's Shoestring Theatre in 1961.[4] The play was also produced for television as part of Shoestring Theatre's CBC Television anthology series. He subsequently submitted a script to the CBC anthology series Festival; although it was not produced, it led to Eric Till directing his screenplay for A Great Big Thing in 1968.[5]
His other film screenplays included Mahoney's Last Stand,[6] The Young Adventurers and Change of Heart.[4]
He died in 1997 of lung cancer in Thailand.[1]