![]() This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 12, 2023. The King has been the RCMP's honorary commissioner since 2012, and visited the musical ride in May on a tour of Canada alongside Queen Consort, Camilla, during Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee. At this level, Criminal Code impaired driving charges can be laid. In Canada, the Criminal Code BAC limit is 0.08 per cent. Each drink consumed within a certain time frame increases your BAC. The Royal Family says Noble is a seven-year-old black mare, settling into life at the royal mews in Windsor after the King met her for the first time earlier this week. If your BAC is 0.05 per cent, that means you have 50 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The musical ride is a troop of police horse riders who perform intricate formations and drills set to music. It says the King personally requested a horse from the musical ride to eventually be his new charger when his current steed, George, retires. The RCMP says the King will be presented with the horse, which is also being given in recognition of the federal service's 150th anniversary, at a ceremony. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Michael, of Thousand Oaks and daughter, Sue Bryar, of Woodland Hills two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say they will be gifting King Charles with a new horse, Noble, ahead of the monarch's upcoming coronation in May. Simmons, who lived in Prescott, Ariz., in recent years, was preceded in death by his first two wives. ![]() His last TV appearance was in a 1982 episode of “CHiPs.” “Well, I had a dachshund as my own personal pet, and she ran King right out of the house.”Īs his acting career ran down in the 1970s, Simmons managed a mobile home park in Carlsbad. “The CBS people wanted to take some promotional pictures over at my house, and they brought King along,” he told The Times. In 1978, Simmons shattered the image of his heroic malamute, King, who was known to bring the bad guys to their knees. They took big mouthfuls of this rock and were in trouble. “They’re used to eating snow for moisture. “Our homemade snow even fooled the dogs when they were brought into the studio for the first time,” Simmons told The Times in 1956. Although his producers wanted him to use a double, the still-athletic actor refused.Īlthough the series included footage shot on location in Colorado, most episodes were filmed on a Hollywood sound stage, where pulverized rock stood in for snow. Then came “Sergeant Preston of the Yukon,” the TV version of the radio show created in 1947 by the same team responsible for “The Lone Ranger” and “The Green Hornet.”īeating out 40 other actors for the starring role, Simmons was called on to ski, snowshoe, drive a dog team, ride a horse, swim, wrestle, fistfight, paddle a canoe and climb mountains. In the 1950s, he appeared on various television shows and played the lead in a 1954 Republic western serial, “The Man With the Steel Whip.” In 1942, while vacationing at a dude ranch, he became friends with an MGM studio executive, which led to his being signed, without a screen test, to a long-term contract.Īfter serving as a pilot in the Air Transport Command during World War II, Simmons returned to Hollywood, where he continued playing small roles in movies, among them “Love Laughs at Andy Hardy,” “Lady in the Lake” and “The Three Musketeers.” Struck by wanderlust, Simmons left school and spent the Depression riding the rails and working a variety of jobs - among them ranch hand, rodeo rider and hand on board tankers and freighters that took him to Mexico and South America.Īrriving in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, he continued working odd jobs, including landing a bit part in “A Million to One,” a 1937 movie starring Joan Fontaine. ![]() He attended the University of Minnesota, where he studied drama and became adept at swimming, diving, fencing and horseback riding. ![]() ![]() Paul, Minn., Simmons grew up in neighboring Minneapolis. Dick had a military bearing from World War II, where he had been a pilot, and the deep, authoritative voice.”īorn in St. “He had a mustache, and he just looked like what you’d think a typical Mountie would look like. “Like Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger, Dick Simmons was Sergeant Preston,” said Boyd Magers, editor and publisher of Western Clippings magazine, who knew Simmons. The half-hour adventure series - which was shot in color at a time when most viewers still had black-and-white televisions - became a popular, snowbound version of the sagebrush sagas that dominated the era’s airwaves. ![]()
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