James Blendick
{{Short description|Canadian actor}}
James Blendick (born 1941) is a Canadian character actor. He is perhaps best known for his 30-year-long association with the Stratford Festival.
Career
Among the productions in which he has performed leads are Much Ado About Nothing, The Cherry Orchard, Waiting For Godot, Juno and the Paycock, Coriolanus, Richard III, Amadeus, The Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and School For Scandal among many others. More recently he appeared in the title role of Titus Andronicus (2000) and as Gonzalo in The Tempest, with Christopher Plummer (2010) at the Stratford Festival.
Blendick has also performed on Broadway (opposite Plummer in Cyrano), at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, at the Old Globe, San Diego and at the Grand Theatre, London. He has also acted extensively in film and television.[http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=King%20Lear%20%28Play%29&tols_title=King%20Lear%20%28Play%29&pdate=20040305&byline=Ben%20Brantley&id=1077011419739 NYTimes]
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ !Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1976
|Shoot |Pete | |
| 1980
|Bourreau Radcliff | |
| 1980
|1st Scientist | |
| 1981
|Years of the Beast |Jackson McKifer | |
| 1983
|Gunseller | |
| 1983
|Kenneth Knight | |
| 1993
|McMartin | |
| 1995
|Ron Gilmore | |
| 2010
| |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1966
|Julius Caesar |First citizen | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| 1969 |
| 1975
|Matt |Episode: "Lulu Street" |
| 1975
|Sanders |Episode: "Pin Money" |
| 1976
|Dr. Molter |Episode: "Oxford Gray" |
| 1977
|Lt. Berman |Episode #1.25 |
| 1977
|Phil Brean |Episode: "Case Without a File" |
| 1978
|Carson |Episode: "The Antidote" |
| 1978
|Loose Change |Bob O'Brian |Miniseries |
| 1979
|Hal Coburn |2 episodes |
| 1979
|Irv | rowspan="2" |Television film |
| 1981
|The Other Victim |Mack Fisher |
| 1981
|2 episodes |
| 1982
|Gutman |Episode: "Thou Shalt Not Steele" |
| 1986
|Twelfth Night |Television film |
| 1989
|Colonel Stacy |Episode: "Reunion" |
| 1989
|The Comedy of Errors |Duke of Ephesus |Television film |
| 1993–1994
|Arthur Locke |6 episodes |
| 1994
|Seawright |Television film |
| 1994, 1996
|Kung Fu: The Legend Continues |Frank Cooper |2 episodes |
| 1994–1997
|7 episodes |
| 1998
|6 episodes |
| 1998–2000
|Narrator |26 episodes |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0088227}}
- [http://www.tv.com/james-blendick/person/69331/summary.html TV.com Biography]
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Category:American male stage actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:American expatriate male actors in Canada
Category:American emigrants to Canada
Category:Canadian male film actors