Rod Coneybeare
Birthday: 1930, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name: Arthur Rodney Coneybeare
Rod Coneybeare was born in 1930 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada as Arthur Rodney Coneybeare. He is an actor and writer, known for The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), The Busy World of Richard ...Show More
[on 'The Friendly Giant'] we used two puppeteers until I took over for Rusty as well. At that point Show more
[on 'The Friendly Giant'] we used two puppeteers until I took over for Rusty as well. At that point Bob [Homme] and I realized we could ad lib the program and dispensed with scripts, which gave the show a different ambience. Hide
[on 'The Bananas'] I was trying to create a program that was wry, ironic and sardonic - something to Show more
[on 'The Bananas'] I was trying to create a program that was wry, ironic and sardonic - something to get the audience to question things around them. It represented a sort of civilized iconoclasm that I believe kids should be exposed to. It was quite successful with audiences, but it died for lack of funds - it was expensive for the time. We probably should have changed the title after the U.S. program aired, but the CBC really liked the name, so we stuck with it. Hide
[on 'The Friendly Giant'] The program started out with another puppeteer. This man was not tall. He Show more
[on 'The Friendly Giant'] The program started out with another puppeteer. This man was not tall. He didn't have a long enough arm to make Jerome appear as a giraffe. Jerome would come up to the window, slump down, and look more like a horse or a cow. Hide
Rod Coneybeare'S roles
