For many of Rod Coneybeare’s fans, meeting him was like walking through a portal to childhood. Wilson Coneybeare, Rod’s youngest son, grew accustomed to seeing adults melt when they met his father.

As the puppeteer of Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe on the CBC-TV children’s series The Friendly Giant, Rod Coneybeare was a key component of learning and fun when viewers looked up — way up.

Rod Coneybeare, whose voice was heard by countless Canadian kids over parts of four decades as Jerome the giraffe and Rusty the rooster on The Friendly Giant, died at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay ...

TORONTO - As the puppeteer of Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe on the CBC-TV children's series "The Friendly Giant," Rod Coneybeare was a key component of learning and fun when viewers looked ...

Rod Coneybeare, whose voice was heard by countless Canadian kids over parts of four decades as Jerome the giraffe and Rusty the rooster on “The Friendly Giant,” died Thursday at Lindsay’s Ross ...