Bruno Gerussi
Bruno Gerussi ( born May 7, 1928 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, † November 21, 1995 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a Canadian actor who is best known for starring in the television series beach pirates.
Life
Gerussi was the son of an Italian immigrant. His family moved in his youth to New Westminster. He studied drama at the University of Alberta associated Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff and then played in various theater productions. In the William Shakespeare of Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions he played Romeo on the side of Julie Harris in Romeo and Juliet and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. He also appeared on Broadway, where he played among others Ishmael in Moby Dick adaptation by Orson Welles. From the late 1950s he also worked for the CBC, where he first took guest roles in television series. In the 1960s, he had under the name Gerussi! own radio show on CBC Radio.
He was cast in the lead role of the series beach pirates ( The Beachcombers ) in 1972, by which he was known not only in North America but also in Germany. It was produced until 1991 and was the longest-lived television series of the Canadian television history. The ZDF broadcast in 1976 a total of 91 episodes of the series.
In the late 1970s Gerussi also conducted the cooking show Celebrity Cooks in the celebrity guests (including Bob Crane and David Letterman ) was cooked. Due to its enormous fame he subsequently received an advertising contract for a manufacturer of kitchen appliances and was advertising for the first commercially available microwave ovens.
In 1980, he hosted the Genie Awards. Even he was never awarded the genius, but he received a nomination in 1990. After his death from a heart attack in 1995 he was posthumously awarded the following year with the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement.
Gerussis wife Ida died in 1965. He was romantically involved from 1972 until the time of his death with the Judge Nancy Morrison. He had two children.