''Night Hood'' is an animated series inspired by
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French c ...
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Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin (French pronunciation: ʁsɛn lypɛ̃ is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazi ...
novels, produced by
Cinar
Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc. (also known as Cookie Jar Group and originally known as CINAR; renamed as DHX Cookie Jar Inc. from 2012 until 2014, or simply just Cookie Jar) was a Canadian media production and distribution company owned by DHX M ...
and
France Animation S.A. for television audiences in both English and French-speaking nations. It was set in the 1930s. The series aired in Canada in 1996 on YTV and in 1998 on
Teletoon
Teletoon (stylized as TELETOON) is a Canadian English-language specialty channel owned by Teletoon Canada, Inc., a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment. Its name is a portmanteau of "television" and " cartoon". The channel primarily broadcasts ...
[https://web.archive.org/web/19980204020449/http://teletoon.com/adultShw.htm#NIGHT HOOD] under the English-language title ''Night Hood'', and in francophone markets as ''Les Exploits d'Arsène Lupin''.
Characters
Lupin's allies (whom he sometimes has to rescue) are his aide Grognard, veteran reporter of the
New York Enquirer
''The New York Enquirer'' has been the name of two unrelated newspapers published in New York City.
19th-century version
The ''New York Enquirer'' was founded in 1826 by Mordecai Noah. According to the masthead, it was "published every Tuesday an ...
Kelly Kincaid, and cub reporter Max Leblanc. The police, usually represented by Inspector Ganimard and Sergeant Folenfant, try to capture Lupin at every chance. Billionaire industrialist and arms manufacturer H. R. Karst is Lupin's archenemy. Karst's assistants are a tough man named Steel, a crafty woman called Countess May Hem, a pair of slightly incompetent but cunning thugs called Joe Gila and Diesel.
Cast
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Daniel Brochu
Daniel Brochu (born February 28, 1970) is a Canadian actor.
Early life
Brochu came from a single parent family, like his character Buster Baxter on ''Arthur''.
Career
Brochu is best known for voicing Buster Baxter in the PBS TV series ''Arthur ...
as Max Leblanc
*Luis de Cespedes as Arsène Lupin
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Richard Dumont
Richard M. Dumont (born 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian voice actor, writer and director who has worked in both Canada and the United States.
Dumont is known for playing Sardo, who owned a magic shop called Sardo's Magic Mansion, in ma ...
as Grognard
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Dean Hagopian as Howard Randolph Karst
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Jane Woods
Jane Haycock Woods (October 10, 1946 – July 18, 2022) was an American educator and Republican politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate from 1992 to 2000, and Virginia House of Delegates from 1988 to 1992.
Biography
She was fo ...
as Kelly Kincaid
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Rick Jones as Steel
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AJ Henderson as Sgt Folenfant
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Walter Massey as Insp Ganimard
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Michael Caloz as Young Arsène Lupin
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Susan Glover
Susan Irene Glover (born January 14, 1957) is a Canadian actress, best known for playing Sarah in ''Naked Josh''. She is also known for voicing Mrs. Wood in ''Arthur (TV series), Arthur'', Izabella Dehavalot in ''Amazon Jack'', Mrs. Schuman in '' ...
as Countess May Hem
Episodes
See also
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Blake and Mortimer (TV series)
''Blake and Mortimer'' is an animated television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comics series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. The series was directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, and produced by French animation studio '' Ellipse'', shown origina ...
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Carland Cross (TV series)
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Cybersix (TV series)
is an animated television series based on an Argentine comic strip series of the same name created by Argentine authors Carlos Trillo (story) and Carlos Meglia (art). The series was produced by the Vancouver-based Network of Animation (NoA) and ...
References
External links
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{{Arsène Lupin
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
French children's animated adventure television series
1996 Canadian television series debuts
1996 French television series debuts
1997 Canadian television series endings
1997 French television series endings
Television series by Cookie Jar Entertainment
Television series by DHX Media
Television series set in the 1930s
Television shows based on Arsène Lupin
YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming
1990s Canadian animated television series
1990s French animated television series