Émile Genest

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Émile Genest (also Emile Genest or Emil Genest ; born July 27, 1921 in Québec , Province of Québec , Canada ; † March 19, 2003 in Hallendale , Florida , USA ) was a Canadian actor and comedian. He achieved international fame in the 1960s through a series of Walt Disney films.

Life

Émile Genest was born on July 27, 1921 in Québec. As a young man, he served in the Canadian Navy during World War II . After the end of the war he worked for some time in his hometown radio until he took a job at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio station in Montreal , where he eventually became a sports reporter and worked bilingually ( French and English ).

Genest then turned to acting and spoke to Napoléon Plouffe , one of the sons in the hugely successful radio show La famille Plouffe , which was also broadcast as a television series from 1953 and in which Genest also played his role. He finally became known to a broad international cinema audience in the early 1960s through several films for Walt Disney Pictures . Characteristic of all these three strips - Nikki, hero of the North ( Nikki, Wild Dog of the North , 1961), My friend Red ( Big Red , 1962) and The Incredible Journey ( The Incredible Journey , 1963) - was that when the the actual stars, each animal was at the center of the plot. Genest then moved to Hollywood, where he took on character roles in several films, including directed by Norman Jewison in The Cincinnati Kid and the King of Poker ( The Cincinnati Kid , 1965) and The Howl with the Wolves ( The Hell with Heroes , 1968) by Joseph Sargent .

At the same time, he played guest roles in numerous US television series, such as Kobra, take over ( Mission: Impossible ), Alfred Hitchcock presents ( Alfred Hitchcock Presents ), solo for ONKEL ( The Man from UNCLE ), Mission Seaview ( Voyage to the bottom of the Sea ), route 66 , Gunsmoke ( Gunsmoke ), Combat! , Perry Mason ( Perry Mason ), The People at Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian ), Dear Uncle Bill ( Family Affair ) and The Boss ( Ironside ). In 1977 he appeared again in a Disney TV movie with Kit Carson and the Mountain Men . During this time he also returned to Canada to work on film and television projects. In 1981 the head of the family played Théophile Plouffe in a four-hour TV special that continued the story of the Plouffe family. This earned him a nomination for the “ Genie Award ” for “Best Supporting Actor”. From 1988 to 1991 he was General Delegate of the Province of Québec in Los Angeles . He played his last film role at the age of 79 in A Day In a Life (2000). In addition to his feature films and television appearances, he was also seen in the Canadian documentaries Dubois et fils (1961) and Le Confort et l'indifférence (1982).

Émile Genest died on March 19, 2003 of a heart attack while on vacation in Hallendale, Florida. The Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien paid tribute to him in an obituary as an important Canadian actor and comedian.

His son Claude Genest was born in Hollywood in 1963 and later also worked as an actor before becoming an environmental activist and green politician .

Filmography

  • 1953: La Famille Plouffe (TV series)
  • 1959: CF-RCK (TV series)
  • 1960: Walk Down Any Street
  • 1961: Lord Durham
  • 1961: Nikki, Wild Dog of the North ( Nikki, Wild Dog of the North )
  • 1962: My Friend Red ( Big Red )
  • 1963: Under the spell of the red tigress ( Rampage )
  • 1963: The Incredible Journey ( The Incredible Journey )
  • 1965: Cincinnati Kid ( The Cincinnati Kid )
  • 1967: The Scorpio Letters (TV)
  • 1967: The King (Pirate The King's Pirate )
  • 1968: Le Paradis terrestre (TV series)
  • 1968: In Enemy Country
  • 1968: The howl with the wolves ( The Hell with Heroes )
  • 1968: Washed the water ( Don't Just Stand There! )
  • 1968: Istanbul Express (Istanbul Express) (TV movie)
  • 1973: Kamouraska - A Murderous Love ( Kamouraska )
  • 1977: Les As (TV series)
  • 1977: Kit Carson and the Mountain Men (TV)
  • 1979: Alone for two ( À nous deux )
  • 1981: Il était une fois des gens heureux ... Les Plouffe ( Les Plouffe )
  • 1985: Monsieur le ministre (TV series)
  • 1989: Mont-Royal (TV series)
  • 1993: Au nom du père et du fils (TV series)
  • 1996: Frankenstein and Me
  • 1996–1998: Virginie (TV series)
  • 1996: Urgence (TV series)
  • 2000: A Day In a Life

Awards

  • 1962 - Nomination for the Genie Award as "Best Supporting Actor" in the TV special Il était une fois des gens heureux ... Les Plouffe (1981)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312783/bio , accessed on June 13, 2007
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/name/nm0312783/ , accessed on June 13, 2007
  3. ^ Extract from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's obituary dated March 19, 2003; Retrieved June 13, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Genest, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Well, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Québec , Québec , Canada
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2003
Place of death Hallendale , Florida , USA