Robert "Bob" Homme, CM

Order of Canada

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 (March 08, 1919, Stoughton, Wisconsin

Stoughton, Wisconsin

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 — May 2, 2000) was an American

United States

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-born television actor, best known as the host of The Friendly Giant

The Friendly Giant

The Friendly Giant is a popular Canadian children's television program that aired on CBC Television from September 1958 through to March 1985...

, a popular Canadian

Canada

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 children's television program from the 1950s through the 1980s, which was broadcast on CBC Television

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Homme became a citizen of Canada in the early 1990s, holding dual U.S.-Canada citizenship, and was invested into the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

 as a Member on November 2, 1998 in Grafton, Ontario. As Homme was too ill to travel, the Governor General came to him (instead of making Homme come to Rideau Hall where the award is usually bestowed), thus allowing him the postnominal C.M.

Homme stood 5 foot, 11 inches tall.

The authorized biography of Robert Homme, called Look Up - Way Up, was written by Grant D. Fairley.

He died on May 2, 2000 in Grafton, Ontario

Grafton, Ontario

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 of prostate cancer

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Family

Homme's step-granddaughter is singer and voice actress Emilie-Claire Barlow

Emilie-Claire Barlow

Emilie-Claire Barlow is a Canadian jazz singer and voice actress. Born to parents who were professional musicians, she was encouraged to sing and study several instruments including piano, cello, clarinet and violin. By age seven she had begun her career, singing television and radio...

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Homme's son was the late Richard Homme, a Canadian jazz bassist who died May 6, 2011.