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Oscar Peterson

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B: August 15, 1925 in Montréal, Québec
D: December 23, 2007 in Mississauga, Ontario

Oscar Peterson grew up on the streets around his home on Delisle Street in Montréal in those mean, lean years just after the Great Depression. He was the fourth of five children and all of the Peterson kids were introduced to music by their dad, a porter with Canadian Pacific Railways, who was a self-taught piano player.

Learn more about Oscar Emmanual Peterson.
Also see: Oscar Peterson at TIFF.

Features & TV Movies:

Begone Dull Care (1949)

Les tricheurs (aka, Youthful Sinners, 1958)
The Tender Game (1958)

Celebration (1966)

Play It Again, Sam (1972)
The Grove Tube (1974)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Fields of Endless Day (1978)

The Silent Partner, movie poster
This poster was scanned from
an original in the
Northernstars Collection.