Jean Duceppe
Canadian actor
Jean Hotte-Duceppe (25 October 1923 – 7 December 1990) was a Canadian stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec.2
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Born Oct 25, 1923, died Dec 7, 1990.1
Companies
- Compagnie Jean-DuceppeFounder14
Early life and education
Born on 25 October 1923 to a family of local shopkeepers in working-class Montreal, Jean Duceppe came to the theatre with no formal training and was completely self-taught.
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Career
Occupation: actor, television actor.5
- 1957 to 1960President, Union des artistes4
- Date not recordedFounded Compagnie Jean-Duceppe3
Duceppe began performing at the Arcade, seven days a week. Between 1941 and 1947, he performed in 34 different plays. He appeared in over 160 productions on radio, on television, and in films.
He hosted radio shows and collaborated on numerous radio and TV series, including the first one broadcast on 3 August 1952, on SRC, Le Seigneur de Brinqueville. From 1953 to 1959, he started in La famille Plouffe.
Some of his greatest successes included his portrayals of Willy Loman in La Mort d'un commis-voyageur (Death of a Salesman) and Premier Maurice Duplessis in Charbonneau et le chef (Charbonneau and the Chief).
In 1973, he founded the Compagnie de théâtre Jean Duceppe (Jean-Duceppe Company).
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Personal life
Awards
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataJean Duceppe on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJean Duceppe on Wikipedia
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- 9WikidataJean Duceppe: award, on Wikidata
- 10Wikidataaward, as reported
- 11Wikidataaward, as reported
- 12Wikidataaward, as reported
- 13WikidataJean Duceppe: IMDb, on Wikidata
- 14WikidataCompagnie Jean-Duceppe, Founder
- 15Wikimedia CommonsJean Duceppe photo by Conrad Poirier, Public domain