Bruno Gerussi
| Bruno Gerussi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 May 1928 Medicine Hat, Alberta |
| Died | 21 November 1995 (aged 67) Vancouver, British Columbia |
Bruno Gerussi (7 May 1928 – 21 November 1995) was a Canadian television actor born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, best known for the lead role in the CBC Television series The Beachcombers. He also hosted CBC's daily cooking-talk show Celebrity Cooks in the late 1970s. Gerussi died after suffering a heart attack in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Enrico Gerussi, who trained in Italy as a stonemason, was a coal miner working in the Lethbridge, Alberta area, as well as a musician. In 1927, he married Teresina and they moved to Medicine Hat where their eldest son, Bruno, was born. The family subsequently moved to Exshaw where Enrico worked as a sectionman on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Near Exshaw, according to Edna (Hill) Appleby, author of Canmore: The Story of An Era, there remains a stone bridge built by Mr. Gerussi.
Bruno Gerussi grew up in Exshaw and later moved with his family to New Westminster, British Columbia.
Both of Bruno's children went on to work in film and television. Bruno's daughter, Tina Gerussi, is a casting director in Toronto. Bruno's son, Rico Gerussi, is a 1st Assistant Director (as well as a lead guitarist/vocalist in R&B band The Raging Butanes) in Toronto.
A scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts led him to acting and in 1954 he joined the Stratford Festival in its second season. He acted in numerous stage productions in Canada and the United States before joining CBC radio which led ultimately to television. One of his earliest TV appearances was as Feste in a 1962 TV production of Twelfth Night.
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