{{Short description|Canadian actor (1930–2019)}} {{Infobox person |birth_date = {{birth date|1930|03|31}} |birth_place = [[Belleville, Ontario|Belleville]], [[Ontario]], Canada |death_date = {{death date and age|2019|09|5|1930|03|31}} |death_place = [[Lindsay, Ontario|Lindsay]], [[Ontario]], Canada |occupation = Voice actor, puppeteer }} '''Rod Coneybeare''' (March 31, 1930 – September 5, 2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=rod-coneybeare&pid=193851509|title=Rod CONEYBEARE|publisher=Toronto Star|accessdate=September 9, 2019}}</ref> was a Canadian writer, puppeteer and voice actor, best known for his work on the long-lived Canadian children's program ''[[The Friendly Giant]]'', where he performed as both Jerome the Giraffe, who would appear in the window, and Rusty the rooster, who lived in a book bag.<ref name="Clark">{{cite news|url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-homme-the-friendly-giant-obituary/|title=Homme, Robert "The Friendly Giant"|last=Clark |first=Andrew|date= May 15, 2000|work=Maclean's|publisher=Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=21 November 2009|location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Look Up – Way Up! The Friendly Giant – The Biography of Robert Homme |last=Fairley |first=Grant D. |date=February 13, 2010 |publisher=Palantir Publishing |isbn=978-0978027506 |ref=GDF |page=118}}</ref>
In April 1959 Coneybeare became the editor-in-chief and host of ''Man to Man'', one of the first CBC radio shows intended specifically for men.<ref>{{cite web |title=CBC Radio for Men, 1959 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/cbc-radio-programming-just-for-men |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]] |accessdate=11 October 2018}}</ref>
In addition to his work on ''The Friendly Giant'', Coneybeare collaborated with [[Charles Winter (radio)|Charles Winter]] on the radio program ''[[The Rod and Charles Show]]''. With [[Robert Gibbons (television producer)|Robert Gibbons]], producer of ''[[Mr. Dressup]]'', Coneybeare created the short-lived 1969 [[CBC Television|CBC TV]] series ''[[The Bananas (TV series)|The Bananas]]''.<ref name="Queen's">{{cite web|url=http://www.apple.queensu.ca/cbc/B.html|title=The Bananas|last=Allan|first=Blaine|work=CBC Television Series, 1952–1982|publisher=Film and Media, Queen's University|accessdate=21 November 2009|location=Kingston, Ontario|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706201744/http://www.apple.queensu.ca/cbc/B.html|archivedate=6 July 2011}}</ref>
Coneybeare wrote dozens of original radio dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. During the 1950s he wrote original plays which were performed on live television, and in 1978 he won an ACTRA award for his radio fantasy ''The Man Who Hated Dogs''. (He had already won an ACTRA award in 1974 for a radio documentary celebrating the music of Frank Sinatra.)<ref>Wilson Coneybeare</ref> He also wrote [[Royal Suite (TV series)|Royal Suite]].
Coneybeare worked as a voice actor for several cartoons, supplying the voice of [[Avalanche (character)|Avalanche]] in ''[[X-Men: The Animated Series]]'' and several characters in ''[[The Adventures of Tintin (TV series)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'', ''[[Babar (TV series)|Babar]]'', ''[[Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series)|Cadillacs and Dinosaurs]]'', ''[[The Busy World of Richard Scarry]]'', ''[[Blazing Dragons]]'', ''[[Dog City]]'', ''[[The Magic School Bus (TV series)|The Magic School Bus]]'', ''[[Little Shop]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]''.
He is the father of writer and filmmaker Wilson Coneybeare.
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0174549|Rod Coneybeare}} * [http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/arts-entertainment/media/childs-play-popular-cbc-childrens-show-hosts/coneybeare-cooks-with-madame-benoit.html CBC Digital Archives, Rod Coneybeare]
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