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Alfred Scopp (15 September 1919 – 24 July 2021) was a Canadian actor who worked mostly in television series, including as a voice actor. He also worked in theatre, radio, and films. He was part of the voice cast for the 1964 Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Scopp was the longest-lived and one of the last surviving cast members of the special.

Life and career

Scopp was born on 15 September 1919 in London, England, to a Russian-Jewish father and an English mother. As a child, he and his family emigrated to Montreal, Canada. During World War II, he was part of the Royal Canadian Air Force in Newfoundland. It was during this time that he began a career in radio, working for the local station CBG (AM). In theatre, he worked in different Toronto productions, as well as working for National Film Board of Canada. He attended Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts after the war, along with Leslie Nielsen, Gordie Tapp and Fred Davis.

He provided the voice of Socrates the Strawman in the 1960s animated television series Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961) as well as the TV film Return to Oz (1964). He played the character role of bookseller Avram in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof, which won three Academy Awards and was nominated in seven more categories in 1972.

Scopp died in Toronto on 24 July 2021, at the age of 101.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer's Toronto connection". Toronto Star. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
2. ^ Langan, Fred (13 August 2021). "Versatile character actor Alfie Scopp never stopped working". The Globe and Mail.
3. "Alfie Scopp – Canadian 'Character'". Ottawa Citizen. 23 October 1954. p. 18. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
4. 'Greatest experience' entering radio academy. What's on Tapp?: The Gordie Tapp Story. 21 March 2007. ISBN 9781426980664. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
5. "TV Cartoon Series in Production at Ottawa". The Gazette. 9 December 1961. p. 11. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
6. "Cartoon Feature Back". The Vancouver Sun. 19 February 1965. p. 66. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
7. "Fiddler on the Roof (1971)". American Film Institute. Retrieved 18 October 2019.

External links

• Alfie Scopp at IMDb

• 1919 births
• 2021 deaths
• 20th-century Canadian male actors
• Canadian men centenarians
• Canadian male film actors
• Canadian male radio actors
• Canadian male television actors
• Canadian male voice actors
• Canadian people of English descent
• Canadian people of Russian-Jewish descent
• English emigrants to Canada
• Jewish Canadian male actors
• Male actors from London
• Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II
• Jewish men centenarians