Marc Favreau

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Image:MarcFavreau.jpg Marc Favreau, OC , GOQ, (born November 9, 1929 in Montreal, Quebec, died December 17, 2005 same city) was a French Canadian television and film actor and poet.

Favreau began his television career as a regular on La Boîte à surprise, a long running children's TV show on Radio-Canada. At that time, he was teamed with another clown in an act called Bim et Sol. Favreau developed Sol's monologues into an enormously popular one-man show. Favreau then teamed up with another clown for Sol et Bouton. Finally, Favreau created, with Luc Durand a popular television series called Sol et Goblet.

Later, he played numerous roles on stage and on several TV series on canadian television, such as Parlez-Moi on TVOntario in the late '70s. Millions of English Canadian children got their first exposure to the Quebecois linguistic idiom through Favreau's work. He is best remembered for the witty deconstructions of the French language which he invented for Sol.

Beloved by children and adults in both English and French Canada, he died 17 December 2005.

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