Conrad Gauthier

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Conrad Gauthier

Conrad Gauthier (born August 8, 1885 in Montreal , † February 14, 1964 there ) was a Canadian actor and singer.

Gauthier worked in Montreal a. a. as a printer, publisher, cartoonist, silent film director and journalist. As an actor, he was a member of the Association dramatique du Montréal and the Anciens du Gesù . He himself founded the Cercle de Drapeau in 1902 and later the Cercle Lapierre . In a production by the Société canadienne d'opérette he sang the Garspards in Robert Planquette's operetta Les Cloches de Corneville .

At the National Monument he started the event series Veillées du bon vieux temps in 1921 , which he produced until 1941. Here he became known as an interpreter of French-Canadian folklore. Since the early 1920s, he has recorded more than 100 monologues and songs for Victor and Columbia Records , often with Elzéar Hamel .

His 40 Chansons d'autrefois appeared in 1930 and the 40 Autres Chansons d'autrefois in 1947 . His son Paul-Marcel Gauthier recorded his songs on four LPs in 1964 under the title Les Veillées du bon vieux temps . As a film actor, Gauthier took part in the feature film Le père Chopin in 1945 and in Un homme et son péché in 1947 ,

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