death_place death_date birth_place cause_of_death birth_date article_title
grafton , ontario 2 may 2000 stoughton , wisconsin prostate cancer 8 march 1919 bob homme

bob homme

robert `` bob '' homme , cm -lrb- march 8 , 1919 -- may 2 , 2000 -rrb- was an american-born television actor , best known as the host of `` the friendly giant , '' a popular canadian children 's television program from the 1950s through the 1980s , which was broadcast on cbc television .
homme became a citizen of canada in the early 1990s , holding dual u.s.-canada citizenship , and was invested into the order of canada as a member on november 2 , 1998 in grafton , ontario .
as homme was too ill to travel , the governor general came to him -lrb- instead of making homme come to rideau hall where the award is usually bestowed -rrb- , thus allowing him the postnominal c.m. homme stood 5 foot , 11 inches tall .
the authorized biography of robert homme , called `` look up - way up '' , was written by grant d. fairley .
