Comedian. He is best known as the quieter half of the Canadian comedy duo "Wayne (Johnny Wayne) and Shuster," who appeared on Canadian radio and television for over 5 decades and was probably the most successful show business partnership in Canadian history. They would often base their comic sketches on contemporary events, trends and television programs. He and Wayne first met as high school students at Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto in 1930. They both attended the University of Toronto, where they wrote and performed for the theater there, and in 1941 they made their radio debut on Canada's First Rogers Batteryless (CFRB) in their own show, "The Wife Preservers", in which they dispensed household hints in a humorous fashion. This exposure resulted in the pair being given their own comedy show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) Trans-Canada Network as "Shuster & Wayne". In 1942 he and Shuster enlisted in the Canadian Army and performed for the troops in Europe during World War II as part of the Army Show (they would also later perform for the Canadian Army in the Korean War). After the end of the War, they returned to Canada to create the "Wayne and Shuster Show" for CBC Radio in 1946. In 1950 he and Wayne were invited to New York City, New York, to appear on a television show they were sponsoring called "Toni Twin Time", hosted by future award-winning actor Jack Lemmon. In 1954, after a huge success on radio, they debuted on Canadian television and routinely attracted audiences of more than three million viewers per show. In 1958, when they were experiencing difficulties renegotiating their contract with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, they were invited to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and continued making appearances over 50 times, even substituting as guest hosts when Sullivan took some time off due to illness. In the early 1960s they began a series of long-running, monthly "Wayne & Shuster" comedy specials on CBC Television, which continued into the 1980s. In 1961 they performed a short-lived summer series "Holiday Lodge" in Los Angeles, California and refused CBS's offer of a fall slot because they did not want to be typecast as sitcom stars. In 1965 they made a series of six short documentaries about comedians such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers, titled "Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At...", which were telecast on CBS in the summer of 1966. They continued performing together until Wayne's death from cancer in 1990. In 1996 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada and in 1999 he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. He died of pneumonia at the age of 85.