Tyrone Benskin
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Tyrone Benskin is a Canadian actor and politician. He was elected Member of Parliament in the Jeanne-Le Ber
Jeanne-Le Ber
Jeanne-Le Ber is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2006 was 112,863.-Geography:...

 riding, in Montreal, Quebec, in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

Life and career

He was born in Bristol, England in the United Kingdom but moved to Canada in 1968 at age nine.

Artistic career

Having studied theatre at both CEGEP
Cégep
CEGEP is an acronym for , which is literally translated as "College of General and Vocational Education" but commonly called "General and Vocational College" in circles not influenced by Quebec English. It refers to the public post-secondary education collegiate institutions exclusive to the...

 and university levels in Montreal, Benskin has become a significant presence in theatre, film and television and music. His theatre credits include features appearances on such celebrated stages as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the National Arts Centre
National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal...

 and the Centaur Theatre
Centaur Theatre
The Centaur Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1969 by The Centaur Foundation for the Performing Arts with Maurice Podbrey as the Artistic and Executive Director, and Herb Auerbach as Chairman of the Board....

 in Montreal. His many acclaimed performances include Mr. M in the South African play My Children My Africa and the 71 year old Nelson Williams Johns in the Black Theatre Workshop
Black Theatre Workshop
-Organizational history:The Black Theater Workshop was incorporated in 1972 but has roots going back to the Trinidad and Tobago Drama Committee. Its first play "How Now Black Man" was produced under the name Black Workshop in 1970 at the Centaur Theatre....

/Centaur productions of Wade in the Water
Wade in the water
"Wade in the Water" is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J...

.

In his years, Benskin has frequently made several appearances in film and television such as Naked Josh
Naked Josh
Naked Josh was a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting rules and expectations of the dating scene.It...

, Largo Winch
Largo Winch
Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...

, The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap is a 2004 American cable television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story....

, Tales from the Neverending Story
Tales from the Neverending Story
Tales from the Neverending Story is a one season-only TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story, produced and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2002. It was aired as 4 two-hour television movies in the US and as a TV series of 13 one-hour...

, Superstorm, Blind Fear, The Wrong Woman
The Wrong Woman
The Wrong Woman is a 1995 film starring Nancy McKeon, Chelsea Field, and Michele Scarabelli, produced by Pierre David, written by Douglas Soesbe, and directed by Douglas Jackson....

, The Killing Machine
The Killing Machine
The Killing Machine is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, the second in his "Demon Princes" series, in which Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes...

, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, 10.5: Apocalypse
10.5: Apocalypse
10.5: Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia. A sequel to 2004's 10.5, the film follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters .-Plot:...

, Big Wolf on Campus
Big Wolf on Campus
Big Wolf on Campus is a Canadian television series created by Peter A. Knight and Christopher Briggs that ran from 1999 to 2002. In the lighthearted horror/teen drama tradition of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, it is about a teenage boy named Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins, who was bitten by a werewolf...

, The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone (TV series)
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...

, Radio Active
Radio Active (TV Series)
Radio Active was a Canadian television program broadcast on YTV, based on the Quebec French series Radio Enfer, about group of students at Upper Redwood High managing their own school radio station, called Radio Active....

, Ready or Not, Riverdale
Riverdale (TV series)
Riverdale is a Canadian prime time soap opera which ran for three seasons .The series was set in the Toronto community of Riverdale, which had the reputation of being home to many CBC employees at the time. It focused on a variety of characters and their interactions in everyday life...

, Christie's Revenge, Sci-fighters
Sci-fighters
Sci-Fighters is a 1996 action film starring Roddy Piper. It was directed by Peter Svatek.-Plot summary:The film takes place in the city of Boston, in the year 2009. Detective Cameron Grayson is on the trail of Adrian Dunn , his ex-partner and his wife's murderer. Dunn has escaped from prison on the...

, The Boys of St. Vincent
The Boys of St. Vincent
The Boys of St. Vincent is a 1992 film directed by John N. Smith for the National Film Board of Canada. It is a two part docudrama based on real events that took place at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, one of a number of child sexual abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic...

, Mind Over Murder
Mind over Murder
"Mind Over Murder" is the fourth episode of the first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on April 25, 1999. The episode features Peter after he is placed under house arrest, and decides to open his own bar in the family's...

, Deacons for Defense
Deacons for Defense (TV Movie)
Deacons for Defense is a 2003 American television drama film directed by Bill Duke. The Televisison film stars; Forest Whitaker, Christopher Britton, Ossie Davis, Jonathan Silverman, Adam Weiner, and Marcus Johnson as "Young Marcus".-Plot:...

, Dark Eyes, The Killing Yard, Convict Cowboy, Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with...

, The Christmas Choir, Forever Knight
Forever Knight
Forever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a...

, Due South
Due South
Due South is a Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy. The series was created by Paul Haggis, produced by Alliance Communications, and stars Paul Gross, David Marciano, and latterly Callum Keith Rennie...

, Earth: Final Conflict
Earth: Final Conflict
Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death...

, The Kiss
The Kiss (1988 film)
The Kiss is a horror/thriller film released in 1988 and set in the United States and Africa. The Kiss is a late occult-horror-voodoo style film starring Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger and Nicholas Kilbertus....

, Spenser: A Savage Place, 15/Love
15/Love
15/Love is a Canadian-produced television series that revolves around the lives of aspiring young tennis players at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. The show was created by Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer, and was filmed in the city of Montreal during the summer. 15/Love first aired on the...

, F/X: The Series
F/X: The Series
F/X: The Series was a television series based on the film F/X, starring Cameron Daddo, Christina Cox, Kevin Dobson , Jacqueline Torres , Carrie-Anne Moss and Jason Blicker. It ran for 40 episodes from 1996 through 1998....

, Criminal Law
Criminal Law (film)
Criminal Law is a film directed by Martin Campbell, released in 1989.-Plot:Attorney Ben Chase successfully defends Martin Thiel, a wealthy young playboy, getting him acquitted of a series of brutal murders — only to find out later that Thiel is indeed a serial killer...

, The Phone Call
The Phone Call
The Phone Call is a 24-minute film produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It tells the story of a young man, Scott, who works at a burger joint to earn money for karate lessons. He finds it difficult to talk to the girl he likes while at the same time easily becomes friends...

, Island of the Dead
Island of the Dead (2000 film)
Island of the Dead is a 2000 horror film directed by Tim Southam and stars Malcolm McDowell.-Plot:The story centers around a group of people that arrive at "Hart Island", which has recently been purchased by real estate tycoon "Rupert King" to build what he calls "Hope City", supposedly to help the...

, Jack Paradise
Jack Paradise
Jack L. Paradise is a professor emeritus of pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a leading researcher of the placement of tympanostomy tubes in children with persistent otitis media.-Research:...

, 300
300 (film)
300 is a 2007 American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and consultant...

, Night Heat
Night Heat
Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...

, A Husband, a Wife and a Lover, Obsessed, The Amityville Curse
The Amityville Curse
The Amityville Curse is the fifth installment to the Amityville Horror saga and was directed by Tom Berry, it stars Kim Coates, Cassandra Gava and Jan Rubes.-Plot:...

, A Taste of Shakespeare, Sophie
Sophie (TV series)
Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin...

, Full Disclosure
Full Disclosure (film)
Full Disclosure is a 2001 thriller film starring Fred Ward, Christopher Plummer, Rachel Ticotin and Penelope Ann Miller. It was directed by John Bradshaw.- Background :The film was shot in 1999...

, Side Effects
Side Effects (TV series)
Side Effects was a Canadian television series, which aired from February, 1994 to January, 1996 on CBC Television.A hospital-themed drama created by Brenda Greenberg and Guy Mullally, the cast included Elizabeth Shepherd, Albert Schultz, Joseph Ziegler, Jovanni Sy and Arsinée Khanjian....

, TekWar: TekLords
TekWar: TekLords
TekWar: TekLords is a 1994 TV movie, based on a series of books by William Shatner. It is the second TV movie made from the series of books. It aired on 20 February 1994 and is preceded by TekWar . It precedes TekWar: TekLab and TekWar: TekJustice .-Cast:...

, Soul Survivor and Scanners II: The New Order
Scanners II: The New Order
Scanners II: The New Order is the 1991 sequel to the 1981 feature film Scanners. The sequel was written by B.J. Nelson and directed by Christian Duguay...

.

He also supplied the voice of Kobalt in the 1996 animated series of Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...

and Bo and Wimzie's father Rousso in the children's television series Wimzie's House
Wimzie's House
Wimzie's House is a Canadian children's television program which ran on YTV from 1995 to 1996, and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service from October 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001. The show has also aired at least as early as 1995 and through the late-1990s on CBC Television, and on...

.

Benskin is a published songwriter, composer, director and writer.

Benskin also is on his second mandate as National Vice President of for ACTRA, Canada’s national film and television actors union and is currently the Artistic Director of Black Theatre Workshop
Black Theatre Workshop
-Organizational history:The Black Theater Workshop was incorporated in 1972 but has roots going back to the Trinidad and Tobago Drama Committee. Its first play "How Now Black Man" was produced under the name Black Workshop in 1970 at the Centaur Theatre....

 Canada’s oldest Black theatre company.

In politics

On January 30, 2011, Benskin was announced as the federal New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

 candidate in the Montreal-area riding of Jeanne-Le Ber
Jeanne-Le Ber
Jeanne-Le Ber is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2006 was 112,863.-Geography:...

 in the 2011 federal election. During the election, his candidacy was seen as one of the NDP's better chances for a gain in Quebec, and NDP leader Jack Layton
Jack Layton
John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC was a Canadian social democratic politician and the Leader of the Official Opposition. He was the leader of the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and previously sat on Toronto City Council, serving at times during that period as acting mayor and deputy mayor of...

 described him as having minister potential. On May 2, 2011, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons with a substantial margin, defeating Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...

 incumbent Thierry St-Cyr
Thierry St-Cyr
Thierry St-Cyr is an engineer and Bloc Québécois politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as the Member of Parliament for Jeanne-Le Ber from 2006 to 2011.- Education and Career Background :...

.

Benskin was named the Official Opposition's critic for Canadian Heritage
Department of Canadian Heritage
The Department of Canadian Heritage, or simply Canadian Heritage |department]] of the Government of Canada with responsibility for policies and programs regarding the arts, culture, media, communications networks, official languages , status of women, sports , and multiculturalism...

.

Film

  • Adam's Wall
    Adam's Wall
    Adam's Wall is a Canadian film released in Montreal on October 17, 2008. The film is directed by Michael Mackenzie, who also co-wrote the film with Dana Schoel and produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin Films and by Olivier Sirois...

    - Mostafa
  • Aftermath - Arnold Ross
  • The Amityville Curse
    The Amityville Curse
    The Amityville Curse is the fifth installment to the Amityville Horror saga and was directed by Tom Berry, it stars Kim Coates, Cassandra Gava and Jan Rubes.-Plot:...

    - Video Technician
  • Bears - Narrator
  • Blind Fear - Guard
  • The Boys of St. Vincent
    The Boys of St. Vincent
    The Boys of St. Vincent is a 1992 film directed by John N. Smith for the National Film Board of Canada. It is a two part docudrama based on real events that took place at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, one of a number of child sexual abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic...

    - Dr. Maynard
  • Cagney and Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling - Dr. Nasser
  • Canvas - Det. Austin
  • Cargo - Radio
  • Christie's Revenge - Detective Hogue
  • The Christmas Choir - Bob
  • Convict Cowboy - Curtis
  • Criminal Law
    Criminal Law (film)
    Criminal Law is a film directed by Martin Campbell, released in 1989.-Plot:Attorney Ben Chase successfully defends Martin Thiel, a wealthy young playboy, getting him acquitted of a series of brutal murders — only to find out later that Thiel is indeed a serial killer...

    - Jackson
  • Deacons for Defense
    Deacons for Defense (TV Movie)
    Deacons for Defense is a 2003 American television drama film directed by Bill Duke. The Televisison film stars; Forest Whitaker, Christopher Britton, Ossie Davis, Jonathan Silverman, Adam Weiner, and Marcus Johnson as "Young Marcus".-Plot:...

    - Archie
  • Dead Like Me: Life After Death - Police Commissioner Cusek
  • Enemies: A Love Story - Cabbie
  • Fais danser la poussière - Lawyer
  • The Final Heist - Juan
  • Final Verdict - Det. Lewis
  • Full Disclosure
    Full Disclosure (film)
    Full Disclosure is a 2001 thriller film starring Fred Ward, Christopher Plummer, Rachel Ticotin and Penelope Ann Miller. It was directed by John Bradshaw.- Background :The film was shot in 1999...

    - Special Agent Draper
  • A Husband, a Wife and a Lover - Dr. Carpenter
  • I'm Not There
    I'm Not There
    I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw...

    - Mr. Avrin
  • Island of the Dead
    Island of the Dead (2000 film)
    Island of the Dead is a 2000 horror film directed by Tim Southam and stars Malcolm McDowell.-Plot:The story centers around a group of people that arrive at "Hart Island", which has recently been purchased by real estate tycoon "Rupert King" to build what he calls "Hope City", supposedly to help the...

    - Dwight Truman
  • Jack Paradise
    Jack Paradise
    Jack L. Paradise is a professor emeritus of pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a leading researcher of the placement of tympanostomy tubes in children with persistent otitis media.-Research:...

    - Winston White
  • Johnny and Clyde - Hadley
  • The Killing Machine
    The Killing Machine
    The Killing Machine is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, the second in his "Demon Princes" series, in which Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes...

    - Doctor #2
  • The Killing Yard - Haywood Burns
  • The Kiss
    The Kiss (1988 film)
    The Kiss is a horror/thriller film released in 1988 and set in the United States and Africa. The Kiss is a late occult-horror-voodoo style film starring Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger and Nicholas Kilbertus....

    - Train Station Doctor
  • The Long Island Incident
    The Long Island Incident
    The Long Island Incident is a 1998 American television movie produced by Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. The teleplay by Maria Nation is based on a real-life incident....

    - Colin Ferguson
  • Lotto 6/66 - Landlord
  • The Love of Her Life - Officer Kingman
  • Marked Man - Boyd
  • Mind Over Murder
    Mind over Murder
    "Mind Over Murder" is the fourth episode of the first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on April 25, 1999. The episode features Peter after he is placed under house arrest, and decides to open his own bar in the family's...

    - Julian Hasty
  • Money
    Money (film)
    Money is a 1991 drama film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern.-Plot:Frank Cimballi is a rich 21-year-old who goes to claim his inheritance only to find it has been embezzled by his father's former business partners...

    - 3rd Broker
  • My Breast - Dr. Henry Balmer
  • My Nanny's Secret
    My Nanny's Secret
    My Nanny's Secret is a Lifetime Channel original Thriller/Mystery/Crime movie starring Haylie Duff and directed by Douglas Jackson.-PLOT:...

    - Detective Drabant
  • Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
    Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
    Naked City: Justice with a Bullet is a 1998 criminal drama film about two detectives who have to protect two girls who have been robbed of all their money and luggage. Kim Poirier has a cameo appearance in the film.-Cast:...

    - Donovan
  • Obsessed - Judge Wolf
  • Peepers
    Peepers
    Peepers is a fictional character in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, a group of mutants in Captain America Annual #4. He was created by Jack Kirby.-Fictional character biography:...

    - Helman
  • The Phone Call
    The Phone Call
    The Phone Call is a 24-minute film produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It tells the story of a young man, Scott, who works at a burger joint to earn money for karate lessons. He finds it difficult to talk to the girl he likes while at the same time easily becomes friends...

    - Police Officer #2
  • Proof of Lies - Robert Hunter
  • Race Freedom: The Underground Railroad - Ward
  • Redeemer
  • Relative Fear
    Relative Fear
    Relative Fear is a 1994 Canadian independent psychological horror film that references the 1956 film The Bad Seed...

    - Cop
  • The Rival - Detective Martin
  • Scanners II: The New Order
    Scanners II: The New Order
    Scanners II: The New Order is the 1991 sequel to the 1981 feature film Scanners. The sequel was written by B.J. Nelson and directed by Christian Duguay...

    - Store Owner
  • Sci-fighters
    Sci-fighters
    Sci-Fighters is a 1996 action film starring Roddy Piper. It was directed by Peter Svatek.-Plot summary:The film takes place in the city of Boston, in the year 2009. Detective Cameron Grayson is on the trail of Adrian Dunn , his ex-partner and his wife's murderer. Dunn has escaped from prison on the...

    - Dr. Gene Washington
  • Shades of Love: The Man Who Guards the Greenhouse - Workman
  • Spenser: A Savage Place - Stevenson
  • Stolen Babies, Stolen Lives - Narrator
  • Stranger in the House
    Stranger in the House (1997 film)
    Stranger in the House is a 1997 thriller film. Based on a Georges Simenon novel, it is a remake of an earlier film, itself a remake of a 1942 French film. The 1997 version was directed by Rodney Gibbons and written by Peter Liapis...

    - Slovitz
  • Soul Survivor - Jerome
  • Sunday Afternoon
    Sunday Afternoon
    Sunday Afternoon is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music artist Aaron Lines. It was released on March 16, 2010 by On Ramp Records...

    - Monty
  • TekWar: TekLords
    TekWar: TekLords
    TekWar: TekLords is a 1994 TV movie, based on a series of books by William Shatner. It is the second TV movie made from the series of books. It aired on 20 February 1994 and is preceded by TekWar . It precedes TekWar: TekLab and TekWar: TekJustice .-Cast:...

    - Dr. Brimell
  • Thanks of a Grateful Nation - Supv. Meeker
  • Volcanos of the Deep Sea - Narrator
  • We the Jury - Noland James
  • The Wool Cap
    The Wool Cap
    The Wool Cap is a 2004 American cable television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story....

    - Clarence
  • The Wrong Woman
    The Wrong Woman
    The Wrong Woman is a 1995 film starring Nancy McKeon, Chelsea Field, and Michele Scarabelli, produced by Pierre David, written by Douglas Soesbe, and directed by Douglas Jackson....

    - Mitchum
  • 10.5: Apocalypse
    10.5: Apocalypse
    10.5: Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia. A sequel to 2004's 10.5, the film follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters .-Plot:...

    - Jackson the Bartender
  • 300
    300 (film)
    300 is a 2007 American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer and consultant...

    - Persian Emissary

Television

  • Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Jack Palmer
  • Big Wolf on Campus
    Big Wolf on Campus
    Big Wolf on Campus is a Canadian television series created by Peter A. Knight and Christopher Briggs that ran from 1999 to 2002. In the lighthearted horror/teen drama tradition of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, it is about a teenage boy named Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins, who was bitten by a werewolf...

    - Male Nurse St. Jacques
  • Charlie Jade
    Charlie Jade
    Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with...

    - Karl Lubinsky
  • Dark Eyes - Bill Marsden
  • The Dead Zone
    The Dead Zone (TV series)
    The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...

    - Orderley Dewey Morris
  • Due South
    Due South
    Due South is a Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy. The series was created by Paul Haggis, produced by Alliance Communications, and stars Paul Gross, David Marciano, and latterly Callum Keith Rennie...

    - Mr. Shawl, Jeff Storey
  • Durham County
    Durham County (TV series)
    Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...

    - Ranjit
  • Earth: Final Conflict
    Earth: Final Conflict
    Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death...

    - Frank Rice
  • Forever Knight
    Forever Knight
    Forever Knight was a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a...

    - Jonah
  • F/X: The Series
    F/X: The Series
    F/X: The Series was a television series based on the film F/X, starring Cameron Daddo, Christina Cox, Kevin Dobson , Jacqueline Torres , Carrie-Anne Moss and Jason Blicker. It ran for 40 episodes from 1996 through 1998....

    - Judge
  • Largo Winch
    Largo Winch
    Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...

    - Waldo Buzetti
  • Live Through This
    Live Through This
    Live Through This is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Hole. It was released by Geffen Records on April 12, 1994, just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home....

    - Sparky
  • Naked Josh
    Naked Josh
    Naked Josh was a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting rules and expectations of the dating scene.It...

    - Tyrone Charpentier
  • The Newsroom
    The Newsroom
    The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996-97, 2003–04 and 2004-05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, was broadcast in 2002....

  • Night Heat
    Night Heat
    Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...

    - Mitch Malloy
  • Radio Active
    Radio Active (TV Series)
    Radio Active was a Canadian television program broadcast on YTV, based on the Quebec French series Radio Enfer, about group of students at Upper Redwood High managing their own school radio station, called Radio Active....

    - Coach Hadress
  • Ready or Not - Mr. Edwards
  • Riverdale
    Riverdale (TV series)
    Riverdale is a Canadian prime time soap opera which ran for three seasons .The series was set in the Toronto community of Riverdale, which had the reputation of being home to many CBC employees at the time. It focused on a variety of characters and their interactions in everyday life...

    - Mike
  • Side Effects
    Side Effects (TV series)
    Side Effects was a Canadian television series, which aired from February, 1994 to January, 1996 on CBC Television.A hospital-themed drama created by Brenda Greenberg and Guy Mullally, the cast included Elizabeth Shepherd, Albert Schultz, Joseph Ziegler, Jovanni Sy and Arsinée Khanjian....

    - Det. Watson
  • Sophie
    Sophie (TV series)
    Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin...

    - Mr. Byrd
  • Superstorm - Murray Michaels
  • A Taste of Shakespeare - Prince of Morroco, Tubal, Duke of Venice
  • Tales from the Neverending Story
    Tales from the Neverending Story
    Tales from the Neverending Story is a one season-only TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story, produced and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2002. It was aired as 4 two-hour television movies in the US and as a TV series of 13 one-hour...

    - Cairon
  • Urban Angel
    Urban Angel
    Urban Angel was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1991 to 1993. Based on the memoirs of real-life Canadian journalist Victor Malarek, the show starred Louis Ferreira as Victor Torres, a crusading journalist for the Montreal Tribune.The show's cast also included...

    - Agent #1, Travis
  • Wimzie's House
    Wimzie's House
    Wimzie's House is a Canadian children's television program which ran on YTV from 1995 to 1996, and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service from October 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001. The show has also aired at least as early as 1995 and through the late-1990s on CBC Television, and on...

    - Rousso (voice)
  • 15/Love
    15/Love
    15/Love is a Canadian-produced television series that revolves around the lives of aspiring young tennis players at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. The show was created by Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer, and was filmed in the city of Montreal during the summer. 15/Love first aired on the...

    - Mr. White

Animation

  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (TV series)
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions and Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS...

    - Additional Voices
  • Anatole
    Anatole (TV series)
    Anatole is an animated children's television series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus. The series tells the story of Anatole, a mouse who lives in Paris. He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette and a family of six little mice. It originally aired in...

  • Animal Crackers
    Animal Crackers (TV series)
    The Animal Crackers is a 1997 television series produced by Cinar, and association with Alphanim, about a group of animals that live in a fictional jungle called Freeborn. It is based on the comic strip Animal Crackers...

  • Bad Dog
    Bad Dog (TV series)
    Bad Dog was an animated cartoon that aired on FOX Family and Teletoon in 1998. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a...

    - Judge Bigly
  • Belphegor
    Belphegor
    In demonology, Belphegor is a demon, and one of the seven princes of Hell, who helps people to make discoveries. He seduces people by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them rich. According to some 16th century demonologists, his power is stronger in April...

    - Additional Voices
  • Birdz
    Birdz
    Birdz is an animated television series produced by Canada's Nelvana studio, and Scottish Television . The show was first broadcast in 1998 on CBS...

    - Additional Voices
  • The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
    The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
    The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures is an animated TV series that aired on HBO from March 1, 1998 to early 2001. The show follows the adventures of two mice, Emily and her cousin Alexander, who go on adventures around the world in the early 20th century, usually to stop the evil rat...

    - Additional Voices
  • Diabolik
    Diabolik
    Diabolik is a fictional character, an anti-hero featured in Italian comics. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly black and white digest-sized booklets. The character was inspired by several previous characters from Italian and French pulp...

  • Dog's World
  • Dragon Hunters
    Dragon Hunters
    Dragon Hunters is a cartoon series created by Arthur Qwak and produced by the French company Futurikon. It follows the adventures of two hunters for hire through a medieval world of floating land masses that is terrorized by a widely varying menace of monsters known collectively as dragons. A 3-D...

  • Flash Gordon - Kobalt
  • Flight Squad
    Flight Squad
    Flight Squad is a Canadian animated television series produced by CINAR in 1998.-Plot:A team of daredevil pilots form the Flight Squad: Dan, an ex-fighter pilot and former member of the Canadian secret service, Tina, Alex, Jeff and his sister Emma, his young teenager friends, the indispensable Max...

  • Freaky Stories
    Freaky Stories
    Freaky Stories is a Canadian television series, which was originally broadcasted by YTV in English and Canal Famille in French...

  • Ivanhoe
  • Jim Button
    Jim Button
    Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button , is considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware . As an IBM employee, he wrote a program to help with a local church congregation. When demand for his program consumed too much of his time, he quit IBM and created Buttonware...

    - Additional Voices
  • Kassai and Leuk - Additional Voices
  • The Lost World
    The Lost World
    -Conan Doyle novel and adaptations:* The Lost World , a 1912 book* The Lost World , a silent film* The Lost World , set in Venezuela* The Lost World , set in Africa...

    - Additional Voices
  • Malo Korrigan
    Malo Korrigan
    Malo Korrigan is a French animated television series with 26 episodes, created by Arthur Qwak and Norman J. LeBlanc of Futurikon. It is a Futurikon - Tooncan - M6 Métropole Télévision - Canal J co-production and distributed by M6 Métropole Télévision...

    - Additional Voices
  • A Miss Mallard Mystery
    A Miss Mallard Mystery
    A Miss Mallard Mystery is an animated mystery series for children produced by Cinar and Teletoon. The premise of the series and episodes are based on the books written by Robert Quackenbush. Each show focuses on Miss Mallard and her nephew Willard Widgeon as they visit various places around the...

    - Additional Voices
  • Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend - Elpenor
  • Ned's Newt
    Ned's Newt
    Ned's Newt is a Canadian/German cartoon series produced by Nelvana and TMO Film GmbH. The program aired from 1993 to 1996 in Germany, and on Teletoon from 1997 to 1998 in Canada. In the United States, the program aired on Fox Kids from 1998 to 1999, and was later rerun on Fox Family Channel...

  • The Neverending Story
    The Neverending Story (TV series)
    The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux is an animated television series, produced by CineVox , Ellipse , and Nelvana , aired for one season on HBO, ran for 26 episodes, and loosely based on Michael Ende's book, The Neverending Story .In the animated series, the...

  • Ocean Tales
  • Patrol 03
  • Pet Pals
  • Pig City
    Pig City
    Pig City is an animated television program originally airing on Teletoon , on September 1, 2002. It features a country pig moving to the big city to live with his cousins ....

  • Princess Sissi - Joseph, Dania
  • Rescue Heroes
    Rescue Heroes
    Rescue Heroes is a line of toys from Fisher-Price that was introduced in 1997. Rescue Heroes depicts various rescue personnel and their equipment. In 1999, an animated television series titled Rescue Heroes was released and was based on the figurines...

    - Additional Voices
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!
    Ripley's Believe It or Not!
    Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims...

    - Roger Glapion
  • Rotten Ralph
    Rotten Ralph
    Rotten Ralph is a children's book about a mischievous red cat who enjoys playing mean, practical jokes on his family. It was written by Jack Gantos and published in 1976...

  • Silver Surfer
  • Superplants - Narrator
  • The Tofus
    The Tofus
    The Tofus is an animated French and Canadian sitcom created by Fabrice de Costil and Bertrand Victor for Teletoon as one of its original productions. It is a satirical parody of the environmentalist lifestyle epitomized by its title family, which consists of Mom, Pop, Chichi, Lola, and Buba...

    - Additional Voices
  • Tripping the Rift
    Tripping the Rift
    Tripping the Rift is a CGI science fiction comedy television series. It is based on two short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. The series was produced by CineGroupe in association with the Sci Fi Channel...

    - Additional Voices
  • Turtle Island
    Turtle Island
    - Places :* Turtle Island, Queensland , the name of four islands in Queensland, Australia* Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi, a group of islands in the Southern Philippines...

    - Additional Voices
  • X-Chromosome - Additional Voices
  • X-DuckX - Additional Voices

Video games

  • Splinter Cell: Conviction - Lucious Galliard
  • Evolution Worlds
    Evolution Worlds
    Evolution Worlds is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo GameCube. It was developed by Sting and published by Ubisoft on December 3, . Evolutions Worlds is a dungeon-crawl game starring a character called Mag Launcher...

    - Federico, Infantryman #4
  • Far Cry 2
    Far Cry 2
    Far Cry 2 is an open world first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and on October 23, 2008 in Europe and Australia. It was made available on Steam on October 22, 2008...

  • Jagged Alliance
    Jagged Alliance
    Jagged Alliance is a tactical role-playing game released in 1994 for MS-DOS and in 2009 for the Nintendo DS. It is the first game in the Jagged Alliance series, and was followed by Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games and Jagged Alliance 2 .-Plot:Jagged Alliance takes place on the fictional south...

  • Jagged Alliance 2
    Jagged Alliance 2
    Jagged Alliance 2 is a tactical role-playing game for PC, released in 1999 for Windows, and later ported to Linux by Tribsoft. It is the third game in the Jagged Alliance series, and was followed by two expansions: Unfinished Business and Wildfire...

  • Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
  • Rainbow Six: Vegas - Additional Voices
  • Splinter Cell
    Splinter Cell
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels. The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is presented as a highly-trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon"...

  • Wizardry 8
    Wizardry 8
    Wizardry 8 is the eighth and final title in the Wizardry series of computer role-playing games by Sir-Tech. It is the third in the Dark Savant trilogy, which includes Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant...

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