He has two sons with Jeanne-D'Arc Charlebois, Richard Darbois and Marc Guimond, who died in an August 1964 car accident in Europe.
Olivier Guimond quickly made a name for himself in Montreal's burlesque troupes and played with the best actors of this tradition such as Arthur Petrie, Juliette Petrie, Rose Ouellette, and Paul Desmarteaux, with whom he formed a notorious comic duo early in his career.
In the 1950s, he also rubbed shoulders with Paul Berval, Jacques Normand, Gilles Pellerin, and others in the Montreal cabarets that were in full swing at the time.
That year, producer Noël Gauvin hired him, and Olivier Guimond became the star of the variety show Music-Hall, broadcast by Radio-Canada.
On Télé-Métropole, starting in 1965, he played the lead role in the television series Cré Basile, written by his friend Marcel Gamache.
In 1966, one year after the debut of the series Cré Basile, he was crowned "Monsieur Radio-Télévision" at the Gala des Artistes.
[3][4] The sketch, written by Gilles Richer, of the soldier guarding a wealthy Westmount home during the October Crisis in the 1970 Bye Bye,[5] in which Denis Drouin played the rich English Canadian, is one of the most famous numbers in the history of this annual comedy magazine.
Guimond's innate aptitude for comedic expression and his extraordinary flexibility brought him close to Charlie Chaplin.