Bill Murray, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, George Clooney. Richard Darbois made them all.
Dubbing specialist, he is the French voice of the big movie stars. Known for his deep voice, it is said to be the most beautiful in France.
An actor by trade, Darbois made humble beginnings in adult films.
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The actor specializing in dubbing Richard Darbois is the son of the famous comedian Olivier Guimond (photo).
Richard Darbois was born Richard Guimond on December 7, 1951 in Montreal. He is the son of Olivier Guimond (1914-1971), who needs no introduction, and Jeanne-d’Arc Charlebois (1920-2001), imitator of La Bolduc.
The couple married in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, while touring one of the many little Canadas in the diaspora. When they separated in 1955, Jeanne-D’Arc left for a career in France, where she took the artist name of Jeanne Darbois, the name of the Maid being too heavy to bear in France for a girl from Verdun. .
Ti Zoune
Olivier Guimond was born in Montreal. But his father, the no less famous Ti-Zoune (1893-1954), grandpa of Pôpa and Môman Paré, Uncle Georges and Madame Jigger, was a child of the diaspora, born in Sudbury according to some sources, in Pembroke according to others.
His grandfather, Pierre Guimond (1827-1909), shoemaker originally from Saint-Jérôme, had settled in Pembroke at the time when Curé Labelle dreamed of populating northwestern Quebec and northern Ontario. to Manitoba to counter the exodus to the United States.
A shoe shiner at the Ottawa train station, Olivier Sr really started at the bottom… of the ladder. It was there that he was scouted by Arthur Petrie, always on the lookout for new talent for his troupe of acrobats. From his first onstage, it was a success. Guimond has charisma and a sense of punch. Petrie baptizes him Ti-Zoune. Nothing to do with the jokes at the bottom of the belt!
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Excerpt from the English-speaking wedding of Olivier Guimond (Ti-Zoune) and Effie MacDonald, on April 8, 1914, at the Saint-Jacques-le-mineur church.
On April 8, 1914, at the church of St-Jacques-le-Mineur (only the bell tower of UQAM remains today), he married Euphemia MacDonald (1897-1996), a young Scottish dancer; Olivier will be born on May 21… Oliver in fact, since the most famous comedian in Quebec had an English first name that we Frenchified.
The first miracle of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
“I have almost no more fingers […]. We are here three Frenchmen who have been tormented together […] The Iroquois made us dance around the fire […] they were more than forty and kicked us into it. »
The end of the first Guimond d’Amérique was not comical.
Originally from Perche, the life of Louis Guimond (1625-1661) in New France was anything but banal. A few years before the tragic events, afflicted with great pain in the kidneys, Louis moved with difficulty on the construction site of the Beaupré chapel.
To cure his illness, he places three stones in the foundation, invoking the good Saint Anne. His kidneys are healing (the stones have passed). The news spreads throughout the colony. This is the beginning of the industry of miracles on the “Coste des Beaux Prés” that Pope Francis will soon come to bless.
Paternal line of Richard Darbois (Richard Guimond)
GUIMOND, Oliver (1914-1971)
CHARLEBOIS, Joan of Arc (1920-2001)
► Married May 16, 1946, Woonsocket, RI
GUIMOND, Oliver (1893-1954)
MACDONALD, Effy (1897-1996)
► Married April 8, 1914, St-Jacques-le-Mineur, Mtl
GUIMOND, Napoleon (1860-1944)
LEGARE, Ursula (1860-1937)
► Married on 1er July 1883, Pembroke, Ontario
Guimond, Pierre (1827-1909)
GOYER, Domithilde (1824-1899)
► Married May 23, 1848, Terrebonne
Guimond, Pierre (1800-?)
FOURNEL, Judith (1807-1863)
► Married May 9, 1825, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville
GUIMOND, Jacques (1763-1822)
TOUSIGNANT, Victory (1774-1833)
► Married August 23, 1791, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
Guimond, Francois (1730-1790)
SIMON called DARAGON, Angelique (1727-1804)
► Married April 22, 1749, ND de Québec
Guimond, Francois (1690-1773)
Fortin, Elizabeth (1695-1733)
► Married on February 5, 1714, L’Islet-sur-Mer
GUIMOND, Claude (1660-1738)
Roy, Anne (1654-1719)
► Married October 8, 1685, ND de Québec
GUIMOND, Louis (1625-1661)
BITOUSET, Jeanne (1635-1707)
► Married February 11, 1653, Quebec