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The first serious dramatic role of his career has singer-comedian Jack Duffy playing a hired assassin in an episode of Sidestreet for CBC-TV. After a (...)
The first serious dramatic role of his career has singer-comedian Jack Duffy playing a hired assassin in an episode of Sidestreet for CBC-TV. After a (...)

The first serious dramatic role of his career has singer-comedian Jack Duffy playing a hired assassin in an episode of Sidestreet for CBC-TV. After a (...)

Date3/7/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: The first serious dramatic role of his career has singer-comedian Jack Duffy playing a hired assassin in an episode of Sidestreet for CBC-TV. After a 35-year rollercoaster career, Duffy has won a fight against alcoholism and now says he's the happiest guy in show business.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0044801F
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      Donnelly Rhodes co-stars in CBC-TV's revamped Sidestreet, a Sunday-night series about community police
      Bull, Ron
      n.d.
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      Bowman, Scotty, 1931-
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      When 39 Equals 69?. Comedian Jack Benny, currently appearing at the O'Keefe Centre, was surprised last night on CBC-TV's Midnight Zone, with a 39th bi(...)
      Benny, Jack, 1894-1974
      2/14/1963
      Arthur O'Connell, in Toronto to star in an episode of Corwin for the CBC, has flourished both on screen and in the theatre as a character actor
      Arthur O'Connell, in Toronto to star in an episode of Corwin for the CBC, has flourished both on screen and in the theatre as a character actor
      O'Connell, Arthur
      8/28/1970
      TV didn't suit Jay. Jungle Jay Nelson has given up his career as a television weatherman to return to his first love, radio. He's the new morning disc jockey on CKFM
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      Beaty, Keith
      12/24/1980
      The darling of early CBC television, singer Shirley Harmer, 20 years later, has returned to Toronto to get her life and career back together
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      Harmer, Shirley
      5/1/1974
      Planner and plotter: Scottish singer Sheena Easton (above) has North American rock career planned around TV talk shows, while Canada's Peter Pringle (right) plots career in Europe
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      Cooper, David
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      Beaty, Keith
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      Hurry up and wait: Eddie Albert was waiting to read his lines in an episode of The Twilight Zone being filmed at Atlantis Films' east end studios when he talked with TV critic Jim Bawden
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      Albert, Eddie
      5/26/1988
      Julie Amato and Jack Duffy, in roles originally created by Dinah Christie and Tom Kneebone, are continuing to delight audiences at The Theatre in the (...)
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Heavy price: Sri Lankan journalist Sinnadurai Thiruchelvam refused to stop writing about his country's civil war so assassins put a bullet through his 19-year-old son's head
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      Lennon, Frank
      8/17/1989
      Duncan Macpherson: CBC's Telescope examines cartoonist in 1967 episode tomorrow at 3.30 p.m.
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      Macpherson, Duncan, 1924-1993
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