Earl Audet Explained

Position:Offensive tackle
Number:27
Birth Date:14 May 1921
Birth Place:Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Death Place:Los Angeles, CA USA
Height Ft:6
Height In:2
Weight Lbs:252
Draftyear:1944
Draftround:3
Draftpick:23
College:Georgetown
USC
Teams:
Statleague:NFL + AAFC
Statlabel1:Games played
Statvalue1:51
Statlabel2:Starts
Statvalue2:25
Pfr:AudeEa20

Earle Toussaint Audet (May 14, 1921 – December 18, 2002) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins, as well as the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He played college football at the University of Southern California, where he joined Theta Chi fraternity, and was drafted in the third round of the 1944 NFL draft.

As an actor, he played minor roles in Tahiti Honey (1943), Black Bart (1948) and All American (1953).[1]

His wife DeDe, a graduate of Venice High School and longtime community activist and volunteer, served on Venice Town Council in the 1960s and 1970s, as President of Venice Neighborhood Council after Earl's death before retiring in 2017 to move to Culver City.[2]

Early life and education

Audet was a member of the Marines during World War II.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: American Film Institute . American Film Institute . The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Film beginnings, 1893–1910 . . 1995 . 9780520215214 . Munden . Kenneth White. Google Books . 44.
  2. Web site: Mayor selects former Venice Neighborhood Council president DeDe Audet as 'True Angel' | the Argonaut Newsweekly . May 11, 2019 . May 11, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190511052802/https://argonautnews.com/mayor-selects-former-venice-neighborhood-council-president-dede-audet-as-true-angel/ . dead .
  3. Lasher, George Starr (editor), "The Rattle of Theta Chi", volume 34, number 1, November 1945, p. 16.