Jim Lewis, voice of Benny the Bear from The Buckshot Show, has died: yyc cfcn buckshot
For 30 years, Lewis and Ron Barge, better known as Buckshot, entertained generations of Calgary children and their parents.
"Jim had a long battle with cancer and was clear for four years only for it to return with a vengeance over the last several months," she wrote."He could no longer fight this brutal enemy and decided to let go and move on to his new experience in the spiritual world. Jim Lewis, the voice of Benny the Bear, receives applause from the audience following the Buckshot Show's farewell performanceBuckshot came about in the mid-1960s, when Barge, the studio director at Calgary's CFCN, pitched a kid's show to management, which was looking for ideas after the CRTC ordered stations to carry more Canadian content.
“It was really not going very well,” said Ron, in a 2014 interview with CTV News. “Jim Lewis, who was one of the cameramen at that point, said ‘Why don't you do this and you could do this’ and I said, look I’ve got an idea, why don't you get behind the window and you hold the puppet and we'll talk.”
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