His father Reuben wanted him to get over the family business in textile in Montreal; the factory that produced ladies and children wears, as well as military clothing during the Second World War (1939–1945), was located on Dowd Street.

[4] Following an extended stay in Paris, Ryshpan studied in private school, under one of Europe's most famous dramatic teachers, Étienne Decroux (1898–1991) who formulated the art of mime.

Howard Ryshpan was an actor in Shakespeare's play The Tempes presented in February 1949 by the Player's Club production team at Bishop's College School (BCS), where he was a student.

The screenplay focuses on a Sycamore family from New York who believes in the philosophy of living now rather than trying to make a lot of money, because you can't win with you.

[8] On December 1, 1950, Howard Ryshpan was a participant in the Philip King's farce, See How They Run humor contest at Bishop's College School.

[9] Howard Ryshpan played as an actor in the professional troop Canadian Players at the Gesù theater in Montreal, in particular: Howard was one of the performers in the play A Sleep Of Prisoners by Christopher Fry presented on March 3, 1954, in the Van Horne auditorium by the Everyman Players at the Festival Dramatique de l'Ouest du Québec.

The competition judge noted that the production of the Everyman Players was of very high quality and that the four performers (Griffith Brewer, John Hempstead, Howard Ryshpan and Victor Knights) had adequately established the atmosphere for Fry's drama, which takes place in a church transformed into a prison camp.

in the play Ring round the moon by taking on the double role of Hugo, dry heart and spoiled child and his sensitive twin brother Frédéric, flexibly passing to both characters.

This play in three acts (each representing Hope, Illusion and Truth) en-scène by Howard Ryshpan takes place in a hotel suite decor in Manhattan; it features people associated directly or indirectly with Broadway Theatre (53rd Street).

[27] Howard was one of 10 performers in a three-piece series presented at the University of Waterloo on Oct. 5, 1968 by the Montreal Instant Theater as part of the Festival The Arts in the Pepsi-Generation, organized by the students of this institution.

[28] In 1969, Howard Ryshpan directed the production of The Playmakers by Corner Brook at the Saint John Drama Festival in Newfoundland.

He was chosen as the best director of the festival and won an award for directing the best play "Live Like Pigs" written by John Arden.

[30] On May 4, 1969, Howard interprets extracts from works by Franz Kafka, in a special program at the Saidye Bronfman Center in Montreal.

One of his first roles on the screen is that of doctor in the Canadian production Blood Relatives (French: Les liens du sang) which is a film Franco-Canadian policeman directed by Claude Chabrol, released in 1978.

The scenario consists of a young girl who takes refuge one evening in a police station in Montreal covered with blood and tells a confused family story.

Florentine must choose between following her heart or her reason ...[46] Howard Ryshpan was a key actor in the film In the Service of Freedom whose screenplay was written by Lionel Chetwynd.

Ryshman was narrator for the role of Geppetto in the science fiction cartoon Pinocchio the robot, which was released on July 29, 2005, and whose director was Daniel Robichaud, based on the original work of Peter Svatek.

The character Geppetto turns out to be a good and humble wood sculptor living in a small house with his Figaro kitten and his Cleo goldfish.

Ryshpan acted as a gallery member in the film The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) (French: "Un parcours de légende").

In the script, Professor Migraine (actor: Peter Macneil) entrusts Nic and Pic with the delicate mission of watching over his latest invention.

[56] Howard Ryshpan is well known for lending his voice to the character of Mendoza in the English version of The Mysterious Cities of Gold (animated television series, 1982), broadcast on Nickelodeon (TV Channel) at the beginning and the middle of the 1980s.

Ryshpan played the role of obstetrician in the first episode of the dramatic television series Evergreen (miniseries) (1985) which appeared on February 24, 1985, in United States.

This computer application running under Microsoft Windows, entirely developed in Quebec, made it possible to synchronize the voice of the dubber of a film or program with the lip movement of the actor he dubbed.

According to Dub Studio's technique, the image being scanned, the system recognizes the changes of shots and identifies them on the tape with visual indication of the time code.

[60][61][62][63] To develop and market this new software, the Ryshpan-Côté couple launched the joint-stock company Ryshco media inc.[64] DubStudio integrated a voice recognition device developed by the "Centre de recherche en informatique de Montréal" (English: Montreal Computer Research Center) (CRIM), in close collaboration with the designers of DubStudio, for the needs of post-synchronization.