Paul Houde

Paul Houde , born with the St. Lawrence, on August 25th, 1954, is a Acteur and TV host and radio Québécois.

Biography

Having begun its academic works with the Polytechnic school from Montreal and faculty from Arts and Sciences from the University of Montreal. It will finish its university stay with Université of Montreal in 1979, obtaining a BSc diploma. in geography. It intends to turn over to academic works when it takes its retirement of the radio.

Radio

Here how the career of Paul Houde started:

There was into 74 a daily program with CKAC, Super Quiz, where the organizers, Lyne Bourgeois and Daniel Gregoire submitted to the listeners enigmas and riddles of any kinds which gave the chance to the participants to gain reasonable prices.

The organizers required of the listeners their to propose succeptibles questions to make sweat the competitors. Not asking better than to contribute to the blooming of human knowledge, I composed approximately 200 of these famous enigmas. This exercise was for me very easy being given my unslung imagination.

The director of the programs of this time, Pierre Robert, wondered who could be well this phenomenon of Pierre Arpin who made dribble the listeners and assemble the dimension of listening of CKAC. I receipt a call inviting me to present itself to the station as soon as possible.

Pierre Robert was charmed to know me, and pointed out me that I deserved well a kind of reward (1) to be to me given evil as much to write all these texts. I answered him that I did not do that to make under. but for my personal pleasure.

I added that being given I was at his office I pointed out to him that I knew a friend who had an insane talent of imitator (It of made when we were going to make astronomical observation.), and that Claude Landré, an extremely known imitator of the time, was small beer beside him.

I noticed at this time that it had the air very skeptic. Perhaps according to him I was as a mother who brings her daughter to various recording companies by saying that she sings as an angel when actually she sings like a defective rattle.

I said to him that Paul was a science student with the CEGEP Wood-of-Boulogne, and that I knew it since a couple of years. I gave him his phone number so that it can contact it. We were then a Tuesday afternoon.

The evening even Paul telephones to me by saying to me that certain Pierre Robert of CKAC wanted to meet it. Thinking that it sagissait of a gag, It asked to me whether I had some-thing to see là-dedant. I answered him that yes by telling him the circumstances of my meeting with Pierre Robert.

This last had required of him to bring texts of its imitations to him, but that it did not have any. He says to me that annoyed it. I answered him that it was absolutely not a problem, that it had to only continue to do what it always had fact is to improvise, because it was excellent in this field.

Hearing was planned for Thursday afternoon, and the evening even Paul telephoned to me to think that it began the FOLLOWING DAY for the animation of night the weekends.

It is indeed as that which the whole began. It is undoubtedly the best blow of my existence.

Source: Personal page of Pierre Arpin: http://www.iq89.com/fr/autre/paul-houde-debuts.html

Paul Houde began his career as radio presenter on May 4th, 1975 within the framework from an emission entitled " nights of week-end" with CKAC/730-AM. Then, it animated more: 6000 emissions mainly the morning with CKAC, CKMF and CFGL. Since April 30th, 2007, Paul Houde is stimulating with the 98.5 FM.

With the radio, it is known like a " morning man." Then moreover, it is today in 2007, " the man of the return to the maison" with the emission Montreal Now of 15:00 to 19:00 with the 98,5FM.

Television

It made many participations in many variety programmes to the antenna of Radio-Canada, VAT, TQS, TV-Quebec. Its talent of humorist is recognized, amongst other things, by its many extremely successful imitations of public personalities.

But it is its Co-animation with Charles Lafortune with the emission quiz the Circle where he is the Master of play and its use of chronicler to the emission the end of the world is at seven hours which will make known it like a character impossible to circumvent of the Québécois televisual landscape.

The emission the Circle will undertake a third season with the autumn 2007. Paul Houde will be also stimulating documentary " Quebec in Une". who will take the poster with network VAT in September 2007. It will also take again its character of " Fernand" in the telesery " Servant boys with the antenna of Radio-Canada as from September 2007.

One cannot overlook the immense contribution of Paul Houde in the history of the Québécois televisual sport. Like his brother PIERRE HOUDE, it was of all the major sports events on all the confused television networks.

Cinema

Revealed with the cinema by its role of the character of the goalkeeper “Fernand”. Paul Houde will make of this funny of " loser sympathetic nerve set on statistics sportives" one of the pivots of the team of hockey of garage. Success with the boxoffice of four films of the series the Servant boys of the Producer Richard Goudreau of the Melenny Productions being in the short list of the largest salesmen of the history of the Québécois cinema.

Catalog of films

Actor

Narrator

  • 1999 : Hunters of shade . Documentary of ONF on the solar eclipses.
  • 2005 : My eye . Documentary Zone 3 produces on the commercial aviation. Diffused on Channel D.

Television

Organizer

Sporting commentator

  • Commentator-to defer. Olympic Games of summer of Athens. (Fence and Opening ceremonies) (interviews) Radio-Canada 2004
  • Analyst. Pan-American plays Winnipeg. (athletics) Radio-Canada 1999
  • Commentator. Winter Olympics of Nagano. (bobsleigh and toboggan) Radio-Canada 1998
  • Analyst. Olympic Games of summer of Atlanta. (athletics) Radio-Canada 1996
  • Commentator. Winter Olympics of Lillehammer. (bobsleigh and toboggan) VAT 1994
  • Commentator. Olympic Games of summer of Barcelona. (athletics) VAT 1992
  • Commentator. Olympic Games of summer of Los Angeles. (basketball) Radio-Canada 1984
  • Commentator. Selection Olympic cities 2002. Budapest. CKAC 1995
  • Commentator. Super Bowl XXII. San Diego TQS 1988
  • Commentator. Super Bowl XXI. Pasadena TQS 1987
  • Analyst. Football NFL. Radio-Canada 1980 to 1989
  • Analyst. XIIIe Pan-American Plays. (athletics) Winnipeg. Radio-Canada 1999
  • Analyst. XVe Plays of the Commonwealth. (athletics) Victoria. Radio-Canada 1994
  • Commentator. Championships of the World Junior of Athletics. Sudbury. Radio-Canada 1988

Rewards and nominations

Rewards

  • Gemini. Better interpretation Emissions of Humor. (emission WILL LAUGH WELL 1990)
  • Gemini. Better animation Sporting Emissions “Olympic Games of Barcelona”. 1993

Nominations

Others

  • It is married in Francine Audette since July 10th, 1982. He is father of 2 boys: Paul-Frederic (22 years) and Karl (20 years)
  • Astronome amateur since 1969.
  • directed or took part in several forwardings in order to observe Eclipses of the sun.
  • gained 2 prices with the International contest of Manufacturing of Telescope with Springfield, Vermont
(1971 and 1973)
  • took part in a British forwarding of trekking in K2 (2nd top of the monde.8611m) in Karakoram (the Himalayas) in July - August 1990. With reached the base camp (5100m).
  • took part in 2 recoveries with the International Marathon of Montreal. 1986 and 1990.
  • supplemented a round the world tour record in 40 hours 17 minutes as a passenger of commercial air lines the 11-12- October 13rd, 1996. Way: Montreal - Paris - Tokyo - New York - Montreal.
  • butchery Jocelyn Marquis sells a sausage which names the sausage Paul Houde

External bonds

  • Card IMDB

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