Neil Chester Vipond (December 24, 1929 – July 15, 2022) was an American-based Canadian actor and stage director.
Life and career
Neil Vipond, the son of a salesman and a former performer on the vaudeville circuit, was born and grew up in Toronto. He started his acting career with the International Players in
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between Toro ...
in 1951. Two years later he appeared at the
Stratford Shakespearean Festival, and stayed there for five seasons. He spent much of his adult life in
New York
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and Toronto, but in the early 1990s, he moved to
Los Angeles
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. He died on July 15, 2022, aged 92, at his home in
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
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.
Obituary: Neil Vipond
legacy.com. Accessed October 26, 2022.
Filmography
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1929 births
2022 deaths
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Male actors from Toronto
Canadian emigrants to the United States
20th-century Canadian male actors
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