:Earl Audet

{{Short description|American football player (1921–2002)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Earl Audet

| image = Audet-Earl-1946.jpg

| caption = Audet in 1946

| number = 27, 42, 98

| position = Tackle

| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|5|14}}

| birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|12|18|1921|05|14}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 2

| weight_lb = 252

| college = Georgetown
USC

| draftyear = 1944

| draftround = 3

| draftpick = 23

| pastteams =

• Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1945}})
• Los Angeles Dons ({{NFL Year|1946|1948}})
• Calgary Stampeders (1950)

| statleague = NFL/AAFC

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 51

| statlabel2 = Games started

| 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).{{Cite book |last=American Film Institute |author-link=American Film Institute |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aELAQAAMAAJ |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Film beginnings, 1893–1910 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=1995 |isbn=9780520215214 |editor-last=Munden |editor-first=Kenneth White|via=Google Books |page=44}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Mayor selects former Venice Neighborhood Council president DeDe Audet as 'True Angel' | the Argonaut Newsweekly |url=https://argonautnews.com/mayor-selects-former-venice-neighborhood-council-president-dede-audet-as-true-angel |access-date=May 11, 2019 |archive-date=May 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511052802/https://argonautnews.com/mayor-selects-former-venice-neighborhood-council-president-dede-audet-as-true-angel/ |url-status=dead }}

Audet was also an accomplished shot putter, winning the 1943 and 1944 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in that event.{{Brinkster|261}}