Frank Shuster

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Frank Shuster, Template:Post-nominals (September 5, 1916 – January 13, 2002) was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, alongside Johnny Wayne. Wayne played to Shuster's straight man.

Early lifeEdit

Shuster was born to a Jewish immigrant family<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> in Toronto, Ontario, and spent part of his childhood in Niagara Falls. Shuster was originally Shusterovich.<ref name=SFU>Template:Cite news</ref> His family returned to Toronto in the College/Spadina area,<ref name=SFU /> in time for Shuster to attend high school at Toronto's Harbord Collegiate Institute, where he met Johnny Wayne in 1930.

The two would soon be performing sketches and routines at school talent shows, continuing to do the same when they both attended the University of Toronto, majoring in English literature.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=SFU /> Starting with entertaining scouts, he and Shuster wrote some original scores and performed at the university's Hart House Follies.<ref name=SFU />

Professional careerEdit

By the early 1940s Wayne and Shuster began appearing on local radio station CFRB, and during World War II they joined the Canadian Army as performers, entertaining Canadian troops, and performed on the CBC Radio series The Army Show.<ref name=":0" />

After the war, the duo appeared on CBC radio and television, becoming a network fixture with regular appearances from the 1940s through the 1980s. They appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show 66 times.<ref name=":0" /> The duo would remain a comedy team for 50 years, until Wayne's death in 1990.

In 1996, Shuster was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Later lifeEdit

Shuster was married to Ruth Shuster Template:Circa, and had two children, Rosie and Steve. Rosie Shuster (b. 1946) was a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live and other television programs, and former wife of Lorne Michaels. Steve Shuster, a standup comic, writer, musician, and actor, died in 2017 at the age of 67.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was also the cousin of Joe Shuster, co-creator of Superman.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Shuster died on January 13, 2002, in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 85.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

ReferencesEdit

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Frank Shuster fonds (R4610) at Library and Archives Canada

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