Pierre Jalbert is a Canadian skier, actor, and motion picture film and sound editor.

He was christened Joseph Jacques Pierre-Paul Jalbert in Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

, Canada

Canada

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, the son of a newspaperman. He graduated from Ouellet College, and attended Laval University

Université Laval

Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

, where he was part of the University Air Training Corps during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

.

Skiing career

He was both Canada's Junior and Senior National Ski

Ski

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 Champion. In 1948, he was the Captain of Canada's Olympic Ski Team at St. Moritz, but due to breaking his leg in a fall during a practice run, he never skied in the Games. After the Olympics, he was involved with the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...

. Eventually he moved to the United States and worked as a ski instructor at Sun Valley

Sun Valley, Idaho

Sun Valley is a resort city in Blaine County in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho, adjacent to the city of Ketchum, lying within the greater Wood River valley. Tourists from around the world enjoy its skiing, hiking, ice skating, trail riding, tennis, and cycling. The population was 1,427...

, Idaho, in the 1950s.

Editing and Acting Career

In 1952, he went to Hollywood looking for a job, and found employment as a film editor at MGM.

In 1961, at the urging of an agent friend, he auditioned for and got the part of bilingual Cajun PFC Paul "Caje" Le May in the TV series Combat!. After the show's cancellation in 1967, Jalbert had a few other acting roles before returning to his editing career. Pierre worked on The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...

, including the famous baptism intercut sequence at the climax of the movie. He was nominated for an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for sound editing for the 1981 miniseries

Miniseries

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 Shōgun

Shogun (TV miniseries)

Shōgun is an American television miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. As with the novel, the title is often shown as Shōgun in order to conform to Hepburn romanization. The miniseries was broadcast over five nights, between September 15 and September 19, 1980 on NBC in the...

. He retired in 1990.

Personal information

He is the brother of René Marc Jalbert

René Marc Jalbert

René Marc Jalbert, C.V., C.D. was a Canadian soldier and sergeant-at-arms of the National Assembly of Quebec, known for his role in ending Denis Lortie's killing spree in the Parliament Building on May 8, 1984....

, the sergeant-at-arms of Quebec's legislature whose bravery saved lives during Denis Lortie

Denis Lortie

Denis Lortie is a former Canadian army corporal. In 1984, he stormed into the National Assembly of Quebec building and killed three Quebec government employees....

's 1984 attack on that institution.

Films and TV - Acting

• Ski Crazy! (1955) as the Psychiatrist
• Combat! (1962–1967) as PFC Paul "Caje" LeMay
• Mission: Impossible (1967) as Paul Lebarre
• The Virginian (1968) as Jules
• The Name of the Game (1969) as Dr. Nieves
• Night Gallery (1971) as the Andrea Doria Officer of the watch
• The Ski Bum (1971) as Roger
• The Richard Petty Story (1974) as Maurice
• Ski Lift to Death (1978) as Clevenger
• Airport '79 (1979) as Henri
• Good-bye Cruel World (1983) as Pierre