Bobby Ash
Encyclopedia
Bobby Ash was a British
actor
who became known to children in the Toronto
area as Uncle Bobby
the host of The Uncle Bobby Show on local station CFTO.
Ash was born in a Staffordshire
theatre into a family of actors and was brought up in the "pirate" circuses of Britain. In Britain he worked as a comedy performer and circus clown. After immigrating to Canada
, Ash's first television role was a clown in the CFTO program The Professor's Hideaway. (The character of Kiddo later went on to his own show, with a different actor.) After Ash left his first show, he returned to Britain, but later returned to Canada to create a new program for CFTO. In his retirement he remained in Toronto
and was working on children's books. He later moved north to Elliot Lake. Ash died there of a heart attack
on May 20, 2007.
United Kingdom
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actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
who became known to children in the Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
area as Uncle Bobby
Uncle Bobby
Uncle Bobby was a Canadian children's television show that aired from 1964 to 1979 on Toronto's CFTO and, for two years, beginning in 1968, as a weekly show on the CTV television network...
the host of The Uncle Bobby Show on local station CFTO.
Ash was born in a Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
theatre into a family of actors and was brought up in the "pirate" circuses of Britain. In Britain he worked as a comedy performer and circus clown. After immigrating to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Ash's first television role was a clown in the CFTO program The Professor's Hideaway. (The character of Kiddo later went on to his own show, with a different actor.) After Ash left his first show, he returned to Britain, but later returned to Canada to create a new program for CFTO. In his retirement he remained in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and was working on children's books. He later moved north to Elliot Lake. Ash died there of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
on May 20, 2007.
External links
- The Uncle Bobby Show Page by Buffalonian Steve Cichon
- Here's Looking at You Kiddo