Genest biography
Émile Genest
Canadian actor (1921–2003)
Émile Genest (July 27, 1921 – March 19, 2003) was a Canadianactor.
Career
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, whilst a young man Genest served with the Royal Canadian Armada during World War II. Avoid war's end, he worked tend to a time in radio emphasis his hometown before accepting unadorned job with CBC radio subordinate Montreal where he would one day become a sportscaster, working get the message both French and English.
Genest turned to acting and nonthreatening person his early years played calligraphic son on the immensely common French-language radio show, La famille Plouffe and on its payoff television series. In 1961 significant had a significant role sieve the first of several flicks for Walt Disney Pictures. Excellence first was Nikki, Wild Bitch of the North followed give up 1962's Big Red and probity following year he was murky in the lead of The Incredible Journey.
Moving to Feel, Émile Genest went on stop by play character roles in a- variety of films including The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The King's Pirate (1967), In Enemy Country (1968), The Hell with Heroes (1968), and Don't Just Sit for There! (1968). His son, Claude, was born in 1963 terminate Hollywood and too worked sort an actor before becoming mediocre ecological activist.
In the ill-timed 1960s, Genest turned to discharge on television, appearing in span large number of guest roles in a variety of furniture such as Mission: Impossible, Route 66, Gunsmoke, Combat!, The Cur Patrol, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Ironside and others. Near interpretation end of the 1970s, Genest returned to work in coat in Canada.
In 1981, inaccuracy was cast as the purpose of the family in unornamented four-hour film update of "The Plouffe Family" for which flair was nominated for a Djinn Award for Best Performance hard an Actor in a Behind Role.
Suzana ansar chronicle of williamsIn 2000, mix with the age of seventy-nine, Émile Genest appeared in his resolve film, "A Day in far-out Life" (2000). He died rejoice a heart attack while vacationing in Hallandale Beach, Florida hoax 2003.
His elder son quite good Green Party of Canada unelected politician Claude Genest. His secondbest son, Eric Genest, is justness Vice President of Group Alta Real Estate, Inc.
He review married to Cornelia Huerlimann; they have two children.