Jack Duffy

Jack Duffy was a Canadian comedian, actor and singer. Born in Montreal and brought up in Toronto, he left Central Technical School to pursue singing and at 19 was taken on by CBC in Toronto as a studio singer. In 1948 he began working with Tommy Dorsey, singing at first with the Bob-O-Links. He performed with the Town Criers in 1950 and appeared often on CBC-TV variety programs through the 1950s. Norman Jewison brought him to the CBC series Showtime in 1957 to work as a comedian, and he had his own variety show, Here's Duffy, from 1958 to 1959. He was a regular among the Kraft Music Hall Players on Perry Como's show from 1961 until it ended in 1963. From 1970 he led the home team for 11 years on Party Game, and in 1971 he hosted In The Mood. He voiced Boot on the children's educational series Readalong from 1975, and he died in 2008.