Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright whose creation of the street urchin character Fridolin in the 1930s and performances of that character on radio and in stage revues were largely responsible for his being considered the father of modern theatre in Quebec; his plays, including Tit-Coq (1948) and Bousille et les justes (1959), were among the greatest and most popular in the province (b. Dec. 8, 1909, Saint-Tite, Que.—d. March 16, 1999, Deux-Montagnes, Que.).
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