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- Birth nameArthur Rodney Coneybeare
- Rod Coneybeare was born on March 31, 1930 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Purple Playhouse (1973), Matinee Theatre (1955) and X-Men: The Animated Series (1992). He was married to Moira. He died on September 5, 2019 in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
- SpouseMoira(? - September 5, 2019) (his death, 4 children)
- He started out on a CBC radio show and sold a radio script to NBC. He worked at various Ontario radio stations, supplementing his income with work in the theater.
- He was also Rusy the rooster in Friendly Giant and would do both voices in a dialogue.
- [on 'The Bananas'] I was trying to create a program that was wry, ironic and sardonic - something to get the audience to question things around them. It represented a sort of civilized iconoclasm that I believe kids should be exposed to. It was quite successful with audiences, but it died for lack of funds - it was expensive for the time. We probably should have changed the title after the U.S. program aired, but the CBC really liked the name, so we stuck with it.
- [on 'The Friendly Giant'] The program started out with another puppeteer. This man was not tall. He didn't have a long enough arm to make Jerome appear as a giraffe. Jerome would come up to the window, slump down, and look more like a horse or a cow.
- [on 'The Friendly Giant'] we used two puppeteers until I took over for Rusty as well. At that point Bob [Homme] and I realized we could ad lib the program and dispensed with scripts, which gave the show a different ambience.
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