# Rod Coneybeare

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Canadian actor (1930–2019)

Rod Coneybeare Born (1930-03-31)March 31, 1930 Belleville, Ontario, Canada Died September 5, 2019(2019-09-05) (aged 89) Lindsay, Ontario, Canada Occupations Voice actor, puppeteer

**Rod Coneybeare** (March 31, 1930 – September 5, 2019)[1] was a Canadian writer, puppeteer and voice actor, best known for his work on the long-lived Canadian children's program *[The Friendly Giant](/source/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.[2][3]

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.[4]

In addition to his work on *The Friendly Giant*, Coneybeare collaborated with [Charles Winter](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Winter_(radio)&action=edit&redlink=1) on the radio program *[The Rod and Charles Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Rod_and_Charles_Show&action=edit&redlink=1)*. With [Robert Gibbons](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Gibbons_(television_producer)&action=edit&redlink=1), producer of *[Mr. Dressup](/source/Mr._Dressup)*, Coneybeare created the short-lived 1969 [CBC TV](/source/CBC_Television) series *[The Bananas](/source/The_Bananas_(TV_series))*.[5]

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.)[6] He also wrote [Royal Suite](/source/Royal_Suite_(TV_series)).

Coneybeare worked as a voice actor for several cartoons, supplying the voice of [Avalanche](/source/Avalanche_(character)) in *[X-Men: The Animated Series](/source/X-Men%3A_The_Animated_Series)* and several characters in *[The Adventures of Tintin](/source/The_Adventures_of_Tintin_(TV_series))*, *[Babar](/source/Babar_(TV_series))*, *[Cadillacs and Dinosaurs](/source/Cadillacs_and_Dinosaurs_(TV_series))*, *[The Busy World of Richard Scarry](/source/The_Busy_World_of_Richard_Scarry)*, *[Blazing Dragons](/source/Blazing_Dragons)*, *[Dog City](/source/Dog_City)*, *[The Magic School Bus](/source/The_Magic_School_Bus_(TV_series))*, *[Little Shop](/source/Little_Shop)* and *[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3](/source/The_Adventures_of_Super_Mario_Bros._3)*.

He is the father of writer and filmmaker Wilson Coneybeare.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Rod CONEYBEARE"](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=rod-coneybeare&pid=193851509). Toronto Star. Retrieved September 9, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Clark_2-0)** Clark, Andrew (May 15, 2000). ["Homme, Robert "The Friendly Giant""](https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-homme-the-friendly-giant-obituary/). *Maclean's*. Toronto: Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 November 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Fairley, Grant D. (February 13, 2010). *Look Up – Way Up! The Friendly Giant – The Biography of Robert Homme*. Palantir Publishing. p. 118. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0978027506](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0978027506).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["CBC Radio for Men, 1959"](https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/cbc-radio-programming-just-for-men). [Radio-Canada](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation). Retrieved 11 October 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Queen's_5-0)** Allan, Blaine. ["The Bananas"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110706201744/http://www.apple.queensu.ca/cbc/B.html). *CBC Television Series, 1952–1982*. Kingston, Ontario: Film and Media, Queen's University. Archived from [the original](http://www.apple.queensu.ca/cbc/B.html) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Wilson Coneybeare

## External links

- [Rod Coneybeare](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174549/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [CBC Digital Archives, Rod Coneybeare](http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/arts-entertainment/media/childs-play-popular-cbc-childrens-show-hosts/coneybeare-cooks-with-madame-benoit.html)

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