Anna left home at 18 to join the Ice Capades. Living in L.A. for 5 years Anna was seen in many of the T.V. series there, but her favorite memory was touring with the Theatre of Being. Frank Silvera, Bea Richards,and Maya Angelou were among the poets who participated in these performances. During this period…
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Jeffrey Groberman was born and raised in Vancouver. While at SFU he approached CBC to write a series of topical comedy sketches. The sketches, co-written with Colin Yardley, played locally and then nationally on CBC radio. A year later the CBC approached them to develop a one-hour national comedy show and the infamous “Dr. Bundolo’s…
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Despite a stammer, young Jerry Gosley performed his own shows on makeshift stages he erected in barns between animal stalls. Relatives raised him in Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire due to his father’s sudden death and his mother having to work in York. Later the Rowntree chocolate family, who employed his mother, secured him an apprenticeship as a…
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Joseph Golland was a stage, film and television actor in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among his feature film credits were The Trap (1966), Bear Island (1979) and Heavy Metal (1981). On television he performed in numerous CBC series such as Cariboo Country in 1964 (Boss of the Namko Drive) and in 1966 (Moccasin Trail, Cabin Fever,…
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