Education
At the age of 12, he and his family moved to the United States where he began singing professionally with the choir from Saint Paul"s Cathedral and later studied English literature at the University of California in Los Los Angeles
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At the age of 12, he and his family moved to the United States where he began singing professionally with the choir from Saint Paul"s Cathedral and later studied English literature at the University of California in Los Los Angeles
Drake began his career at nine years old when he became involved as a child actor in radio plays for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in Vancouver. By the late 1960s, Drake had abandoned his musical career and began working as a screenwriter. During this time, he wrote scripts for the American television series Then Came Bronson (1969-1970) and The Psychiatrist (1971).
In 1975, Drake made his motion picture debut as both writer and director of The Keeper, a low-budget Canadian horror film starring Christopher Lee which never received theatrical distribution.
He also wrote the screenplay for the 1980 horror film Terror Train, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Drake died of cancer on August 8, 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia.