Bob Dermer is a retired Canadian actor who first made his contributions to Canadian television in 1965 as an actor in Ottawa on a late-night serial called Milk and Honey, which ran for 200 episodes.
Prior to Readalong, Dermer was also on several Canadian children's shows such as Hi Diddle Day which ran for 10 years on the CBC followed by Pencil Box which ran for another six years.
Early life Dermer was born in Ottawa, Ontario.
Career In the 1980s, Dermer appeared on the children's show Today's Special, playing a puppet character named Sam Crenshaw, and starred in the animated Raccoons series and specials as Ralph Raccoon (and various other characters.) He was the voice of Grumpy Bear in the Care Bears films and TV series of that era. In the middle of airing Today's Special in 1984, Dermer was nearly killed in a car accident and suffered from a broken clavicle and thoracic ribs and lost his left eye. He was unable to perform for five months and had to wear an eye patch before having an eyeball transplant.
Later on, he made a cameo appearance in Walt Disney Pictures's 1994 film The Santa Clause before making one final foray in the 1996 made-for-TV movie Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story. He retired from the TV business in 2001.
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1985The Care Bears MovieGrumpy BearVoice1986Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation1987The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland1988Care Bears Nutcracker Suite1994The Santa ClausePuppet Punch
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1976King of KensingtonNormanEpisode: "Duke's Dilemma"1980The Christmas RaccoonsRalph RaccoonTelevision film1981The Raccoons on Ice1981Today's Special: Live on StageSam CrenshawTelevision special1981–1987Today's SpecialSam Crenshaw89 episodes1983The Raccoons and the Lost StarRalph RaccoonTelevision film1984The Care Bears Battle the Freeze MachineFrostbite / Cloudkeeper1984–1985Téléfrançais!Various voices8 episodes1985The Edison TwinsBennyEpisode: "The Mole People"1985Care BearsGrumpy Bear, various voices11 episodes1985–1991The RaccoonsRalph Raccoon, Lady Baden Baden, additional voices60 episodes1986–1988The Care Bears FamilyGrumpy Bear 46 episodes1990Basil Hears a NoiseAdditional charactersTelevision film1994Road to AvonleaEmmet HornEpisode: "Modern Times"1994Tales from the CryptkeeperRose's DadEpisode: "Growing Pains"1995The Neverending StoryJacko2 episodes1996Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison StoryDrunkTelevision film
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