Singer and actor Bill Hosie helped put professional theatre on the map in Victoria, during a period when the performing arts community as we know it was still an emerging entity.
He was a trailblazer in that sense, and was never far from a stage during a career that stretched over several decades and mediums.
He was born William Gray Hosie on Oct. 15, 1941, in Aberdeen, Scotland. His family emigrated to Victoria in 1954, and the Hosie children — Bill and Dorothy — quickly immersed themselves in the local theatre scene . They were married in 1965, and shortly thereafter Bill Hosie began landing professional gigs in Vancouver — a rare feat, at the time, for a performer based in Victoria. He would later audition for Alan Lund, artistic director of the Charlottetown Summer Festival, who was doing a cross-Canada casting call for what would become Canada’s most successful musical, Anne of Green Gables.
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