Biography
His sporadically recurring role on HBO's "Entourage" (2004- ) as volatile movie producer Harvey Weingard never failed to amuse, while he made a true name for himself on television with the starring turn as Detective Nero Wolfe on the A&E series, "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (2001-02). He went on to find his true niche in Canada, where his physical appearance - being on the heftier side - did not impede his opportunity to land interesting leading …
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Career Milestones
| Moved to New York after studying at San Francisco's ACT; took various odd jobs to pay the rent | ||
| Performed in other Off-Broadway theater productions, including "Fat Fell Down" and "A Man's a Man" | ||
1968 | Formed and ran the Swamp Fox Group with some high school friends while in college at the State University of New York, Buffalo; the troupe toured widely, performing original material, and won an award at the 1969 Yale Drama Festival (dates approximate) | |
1975 | Unable to find show business work in NYC, journeyed to Canada to act in a stage play, "Hooray for Johnny Canuck"; subsequently acted in a number of productions at Toronto's Factory Theatre Lab | |
1978 | Returned to NYC, joining the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Dodget Theatre Company to act in a production of "Gimme Shelter" by Barry Keefe | |
1979 | Acted in "Leave It to Beaver Is Dead", an off-Broadway musical play presented by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival | |
1979 | Earliest feature film appearances included a role in the Canadian-made comedy-thriller, "Highpoint" | |
1979 | Returned to Canada | |
1980 | Appeared in first U.S. TV movie, "Jimmy B. & Andre" (CBS) | |
1981 | Made U.S. feature film debut in "Death Hunt" | |
1983 | Appeared in first film with Canadian producer-director-writer Paul Donovan, "Def-Con 4" | |
1983 | Breakthrough role in Hollywood films, "WarGames" | |
1986 | Played title role in the Canadian-made docudrama feature, "Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks" | |
1990 | Offered a memorable turn as the suicidal cavalry major who sends Kevin Costner west in "Dances with Wolves" | |
1991 | Began collaboration with writer-director Atom Egoyan with the "En Passant" segment of "Montreal vu par..." and "The Adjuster" | |
1992 | Cast in a supporting role in "My Cousin Vinny" | |
1992 | Made TV miniseries debut in "Conspiracy of Silence", which originally premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in December, 1991 and later aired on CBS | |
1992 | Portrayed friendly truck driver Leon "Crazy-As" Pendleton in Edward Zwick's "Leaving Normal" | |
1992 | Worked on fourth film with Donovan, "Buried on Sunday" | |
1993 | Appeared in first film with director Jon Amiel, "Sommersby" | |
1994 | Played Jessica Tandy's movie-producer son in "Camilla"; Atom Egoyan appeared as a film director | |
1994 | Received second Genie Award for portrayal of a deeply-troubled Brian Wilson-like musician in "Whale Music" | |
1995 | Played a menacing, rotund, depraved politician in "Devil in a Blue Dress" | |
1995 | Teamed with Michael Richards as the seriously goofy uncles in Diane Keaton's "Unstrung Heroes" | |
1997 | Worked in third film with Egoyan, "The Sweet Hereafter"; gave an unexpectedly disturbing performance as a choleric, cuckhold | |
1998 | Portrayed the prison warden in "The Mark of Zorro" | |
1999 | Doubled as a store owner and a wacky, crying lawyer for the dream sequences in "Jacob Two Two and the Hooded Fang" | |
1999 | Reteamed with Amiel on "Entrapment", playing a dissipated underworld figure with a comically monstrous belly | |
2000 | Played Kyra Sedgwick's aging father confronting his daughter's lesbianism when she brings her girlfriend to Thanksgiving dinner in "What's Cooking?"; screened at the Sundance Film Festival | |
2000 | Portrayed Nero Wolfe in A&E TV-movie "The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery" | |
2001 | Reprised title role in the A&E series "Nero Wolfe" | |
2004 | Starred in "Being Julia," based on the novel "Theatre," by W. Somerset Maugham | |
2005 | Cast as mob boss, San Marco in Atom Egoyan's "Where the Truth Lies" starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth | |
2005 | Cast in a recurring role as Hollywood producer Harvey Weingard on HBO's "Entourage" | |
2008 | Appeared in the Canadian TV series "Less Than Kind" | |
2008 | Cast in Fernando Meirelles-directed mystery drama "Blindness" | |
2010 | Cast in a supporting role opposite Kevin Spacey and Kelly Preston in "Casino Jack" | |