Henry Ramer

Henry Conrad Ramer (April 29, 1924 – August 11, 2009) was a Canadian actor. He was most noted for his supporting performance as Jerry Dingleman in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, for which he received an ACTRA Award nomination for Best Film Actor at the 4th ACTRA Awards in 1975. Born in Chernivtsi (Romanian: Cernăuți) when it was still Romanian territory, he moved with his family to Montreal, Quebec, in childhood. He made his acting debut as a teenager in a stage production of The Cherry Orchard. He attempted to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, but after being turned down he devoted himself more actively to acting, and was soon hired as a staff announcer and radio actor for CBC Radio. In 1951, he made his first film appearance in The Butler's Night Off, a film which also marked the debut of William Shatner. He frequently appeared in CBC Television drama anthologies through the 1950s and 1960s, and frequently did voice-over roles in animation, television commercials and narration. Despite not actually being a fluent speaker of the French language, he was also skilled enough in phonetically reading French-language dialogue in a native-sounding accent that he was frequently given French dubbing roles. He also continued to have stage roles, most notably as Tiger Brown in a 1972 production of The Threepenny Opera at the Stratford Festival alongside Jack Creley, Anton Rodgers and Lila Kedrova. In addition to his ACTRA nomination for Duddy Kravitz, he also received nominations for Best Television Actor at the 2nd ACTRA Awards in 1973 for Here Come the Seventies, and Best Radio Actor at the 9th ACTRA Awards in 1980 for Grasshopper Hill.