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Murray Westgate (April 16, 1918 – August 27, 2018) was a Canadian actor. 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 the 9th Genie Awards in 1988; and in the film ...
Murray Westgate, familiar to an early generation of TV viewers as Esso’s ‘Happy Motoring’ pitchman on Hockey Night In Canada, has died. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your ...
Aug 27, 2018 · Murray Westgate was a fixture on Hockey Night in Canada for almost two decades where his “Happy Motoring” catch phrase made him famous. Westgate, 100, died at Sunnybrook Veterans Centre on Monday.
Apr 15, 2018 · Music therapist Mike Brush shows Murray Westgate a photograph of Murray as the Esso products pitchman. Westgate, a retired actor, is best known for his appearances on Hockey Night in Canada from ...
Murray Westgate. Actor: Countdown to Looking Glass. 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).
- Actor
- April 16, 1918
- Murray Westgate
- August 27, 2018
Murray Westgate. Actor: Countdown to Looking Glass. 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).
Aug 27, 2018 · Like most young men at the time with the outbreak of World War Two, Murray Westgate signed up to serve his country. He joined the Canadian navy and was posted to Halifax where he was trained as a wireless operator. On his discharge in 1945, he heard that a repertory company was being formed on the west coast and so he became a member of Vancouver`s first professional theatre company, Everyman ...
