- Popular Canadian children's and teenager's TV host. Was also a radio announcer for CBC Radio.
- Late fiddler Emile Benoit composed a reel named after the show Skipper and Company, which ran from the 1960s into the early 1970s.
- Worked for years as host and announcer at CBC Radio and hosted Weekend Arts Magazine in Newfoundland and Labrador during the 1990s.
- Helped many performers get some of their first exposure, such as comedians Tommy Sexton and Mary Walsh, and Jeanne Beker, current host of Fashion Television, who appeared on the show as a pantomime.
- Was also a skilled magician.
- With second wife Rose, he had two daughters Kelly and Lauren, son Sean and two grandchildren.
- With first wife Brenda, he had two sons, Mark and Chris, and two daughters Kim and Robin, four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
- In 2002 he was sentenced to house arrest for assaulting and threatening his wife Rose.
- In the late 1990s, was the live personification of P.J. Billington, of the P.J. Billington's restaurants, making public appearances and voicing radio commercials and TV commercials.
- Also helped career of Leslie Lake, now Leslie Lake Searle, when she was a young singer on his show Skipper & Co.
- In the 1960s he hosted a teen radio show, which he also took into the schools, playing music and interviewing students.
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