Background
He was christened Joseph Jacques Pierre-Paul Jalbert in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of a newspaperman.
He was christened Joseph Jacques Pierre-Paul Jalbert in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of a newspaperman.
He graduated from Ouellet College, and attended Laval University, where he was part of the University Air Training Corps during World World War World War II
In 1948, he was the Captain of Canada"s Olympic Ski Team at Saint Moritz, but due to breaking his leg in a fall during a practice run, he never skied in the Games. After the Olympics, he was involved with the National Film Board of Canada. Eventually he moved to the United States and worked as a ski instructor at Sun Valley, Idaho, in the 1950s.
Editing and Acting In 1952, he went to Hollywood looking for a job, and found employment as a film editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1961, at the urging of an agent friend, he auditioned for and got the part of bilingual Cajun PFC Paul "Caje" Le May in the American Broadcasting Company World World War II dramatic television series Combat!.
After the show"s cancellation in 1967, Jalbert had a few other acting roles before returning to his editing career. He retired in 1990.
He is the brother of René Marc Jalbert, the sergeant-at-arms of Quebec"s legislature whose bravery saved lives during Denis Lortie"s 1984 attack on that institution.
Pierre Jalbert died in Los Angeles on 22 January 2014. He had been in the hospital since suffering a heart attack on his 89th birthday, two weeks prior.
Ski Crazy! (1955) as the Psychiatrist
Combat! (1962–1967) as PFC Paul "Caje" LeMay
Mission: Impossible (1967) as Paul Lebarre
The Virginian (1968) as Jules
The Name of the Game (1969) as Doctor Nieves
Footprints on the MoonApollo 11 1969 ( Re-released in 2009 on Digital Video Disc for the 40 th anniversary of the first moon landing) as the voice of Jules Verne
Night Gallery (1971) as the Andrea Doria Officer of the watch
The Ski Bum (1971) as Roger
The Richard Petty Story (1974) as Curtis Cross
Ski Lift to (1978) as Clevenger
Airport "79 (1979) as Henri
Good-bye Cruel World (1983) as Pierre.
