Frederick Banting the biography by Michael Bliss, and on television. The National Film Board of Canada produced a short film in 1958, "The Quest", about his initial insulin experiments on dogs. The 1988 television movie "Glory Enough for All" depicted the search for insulin by Banting and Best, with R. H. Thomson starring as Banting. Banting is also portrayed by Jason Priestley boarding his fatal flight in the 2006 historical drama "Above and Beyond". Prior to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1923—which he shared with Macleod—he received the Reeve Prize of the University of Toronto (1922).
Frederick Banting Territories), Georgian Bay, French River and the Sudbury District. Banting married twice. His first marriage was to Marion Robertson in 1924; they had one child, William (born 1929-, died 1998). They divorced in 1932 and Banting married Henrietta Ball in 1937. In February 1941, Banting died of wounds and exposure following the crash of a Lockheed L-14 Super Electra/Hudson in which he was a passenger, in Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland. After departing from Gander, Newfoundland, both of the plane's engines failed. The navigator and co-pilot died instantly, but Banting and the pilot, Captain Joseph Mackey, survived the initial impact. According to