Tag: Inducted 1994

A British Columbia -based actor/singer/director/choreographer whose career spans over four decades. He is probably best known around the world for his appearances on children’s television. However, Mr. Hyslop has also had a fruitful career in theatre, particularly on the musical stage. He has appeared across the nation in lead roles in works as varied as…
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As an actor, director and teacher, Antony Holland was a mainstay of the Vancouver theatrical scene after he arrived in the late 1950s from his native England, where he had been Vice-Principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1965 he founded Studio 58 at Langara College and for 20 years was instrumental in shaping…
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Born in Vancouver, Bill grew up in Western Canada and began earning a living as a musician while still in high school. He studied music at the University of British Columbia and in 1966 helped found THE COLLECTORS, one of the country’s most innovative musical groups. After two albums the group evolved into CHILLIWACK. Henderson…
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Irving (Allen) Guttman was born in Chatham, Ontario October 27 1928. After studies 1941-6 at Strathcona Academy in Montreal he attended the RCMT 1947-52. He was an assistant to Herman Geiger-Torel 1949-54 at the Opera Festival (COC). He made his directing debut in May of 1953 in Cornwall, Ont, with Menotti’s The Consul, for which…
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Bruno Gerussi was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1928, He received a scholarship for the Banff Centre for The Arts in 1947 which launched a career on stage, radio and especially CBC TV invited to join the Stratford Festival, and stayed until 1965, playing many of the major roles of the Shakespearean canon including Feste…
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