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Murray Westgate (April 16, 1918 – August 27, 2018) was a Canadian actor. [1] He is best known for his longtime role as a television pitchman in Canadian commercials for Esso on Hockey Night in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, and also for his roles in Blue City Slammers, for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor at ...
Murray Westgate, familiar to an early generation of TV viewers as Esso’s ‘Happy Motoring’ pitchman on Hockey Night In Canada, has died.
Apr 15, 2018 · April 15, 2018. 3 min read. Murray Westgate as the Esso man, circa 1960. By Paul Hunter Feature Writer. For almost two decades, he was part of Canada’s hockey heartbeat. On this day however,...
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Murray Westgate was born on 16 April 1918 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was an actor, known for Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Blue City Slammers (1988). He was married to Alice Hill. He died on 27 August 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Actor
- April 16, 1918
- Murray Westgate
- August 27, 2018
Murray Westgate (April 16, 1918 – August 27, 2018) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for his longtime role as a television pitchman in Canadian commercials for Esso on Hockey Night in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Actor
Murray Westgate’s gravelly baritone soothed frazzled nerves between periods, his 90-second plugs for Imperial Esso, shot live in a studio across from Maple Leaf Gardens, always ending with his own special line: “Happy motoring. Always look to Imperial for the best” and years later, “Put a tiger in your tank. …
Aug 27, 2018 · He is probably best remembered by a certain age group for being the spokesman for Imperial Oil, appearing in commercials for 17 years, especially when they were a major sponsor of Hockey Night In Canada on the CBC. Westgate died at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
