Northrop Frye was born on July 14, 1912 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada as Herman Northrop Frye. He was an actor, known for The Passerby (1995) and The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation (1984). He was married to Elizabeth Brown and Helen Kemp. He died on January 23, 1991 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.