Eugène Daignault

Eugène Daignault (born September 14, 1895 in St. Albans , Vermont , † January 27, 1960 in Montreal ) was a Canadian actor and singer.

Daignault came to Montreal at the age of five after the death of his father and was trained at the St-Hyacinthe theater seminar . He had to drop out of a pharmacy degree for health reasons and entered amateur theaters and the like. a. with Ovila Légaré and Gaston Saint-Jacques . From 1920 to 1941 he worked as a food controller for the Montreal Board of Health .

In addition, he continued his theater work. From 1921 to 1941 he was singer in Conrad Gauthier's Veillées du bon vieux temps in Monument-National in Montreal. He recorded more than a hundred songs for the Starr and Bluebird Records labels . In 1922 he made his radio debut at the radio station CKAC in Montreal. He worked here in programs such as L'heure provinciale , Les veillées canadiennes , En roulant ma boule and À travers mon chapeau and in series such as Le curé de village (1935–1938), La pension Velder (1938–1942), Chez le père Tremblay (1940-1941) and Les diables rouges (1939-1946) with. As a storyteller, he appeared in the comedy show Le ralliement du rire (1940–1950) with Ovila Légaré and Marcel Baulu . He became famous as the father Ovide in Un homme et son péché (1939–1954), which he also featured in the films Séraphin and Un homme et son péché (1949) and in the television show Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut (1956– 60) played. After his death, this role was taken over by his son Pierre Daignault , with whom he had been on stage since the 1940s.

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SURNAME	Daignault, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Albans , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH	January 27, 1960
Place of death	Montreal