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Perry, Frank - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304215

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1984-02-11

Item number (ISN):

304215

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1984-0138

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1984-02-11

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Mary Harker

Description:

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Mary Harker interviews actor Frank Perry. Perry discusses: his family background; marriage in 1951; education; joining St. John's Anglican Church choir; acting and singing parts in pantomimes at Hart House for Josephine Barrington; drama lessons from Barrington at 50 cents each; first radio programme - a live commercial for Ever Ready Batteries; playing Butch in the soap opera JOHN AND JUDY; radio show THE CHILDREN'S SCRAPBOOK; a year in the Air Force towards the end of war; playing a semi-running part on the soap opera SOLDIER'S WIFE; graduated from high school in 1943; after the war worked as full-time actor; acting with New Play Society; being an original member of Peterborough Summer Theatre in late forties; live TV in the early fifties; six-week tour with the pre-Centennial play by Tommy Tweed in 1966; playing serious singing and comic roles in various industrial shows; amusing incidents while working with Ruth Springford; juvenile role in his first feature film called BUSH PILOT in 1946; why Americans come to Canada to shoot movies; work in several series, including the very early TV series SUNSHINE SKETCHES and the later QUENTIN DURGEN, M.P.; appearances on many of CBC-TV's running series; nominations for two awards; an ACTRA Award for his part in THE ACCIDENT; the Andrew Allen Award for Radio in 1983 for his performance as Father Leguard in THE CANADIANS; and his relationship with the CBC over the years. <49mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Toronto.

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Vault ISN:

339645

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03814

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.~Accession form states: available for research, copying, or broadcast five years after date of interview. Copyright MAY have been waived - to be confirmed.

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