James Blendick

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James Blendick (born 1941) is a Canadian character actor. He is perhaps best known for his 30-year-long association with the Stratford Festival.

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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. [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1976ShootPete
1980 Cordélia Bourreau Radcliff
1980 Resurrection 1st Scientist
1981Years of the BeastJackson McKifer
1983 Star 80 Gunseller
1983 Utilities Kenneth Knight
1993 Guilty as Sin McMartin
1995 Tommy Boy Ron Gilmore
2010 The Tempest Gonzalo

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1966Julius CaesarFirst citizenTelevision film
1969 The Three Musketeers Porthos
1975 Performance MattEpisode: "Lulu Street"
1975 The Invisible Man SandersEpisode: "Pin Money"
1976 Police Story Dr. MolterEpisode: "Oxford Gray"
1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Lt. BermanEpisode #1.25
1977 Kojak Phil BreanEpisode: "Case Without a File"
1978 The Bionic Woman CarsonEpisode: "The Antidote"
1978Loose ChangeBob O'BrianMiniseries
1979 Barnaby Jones Hal Coburn2 episodes
1979 Crisis in Mid-Air IrvTelevision film
1981The Other VictimMack Fisher
1981 Star Wars General Dodonna 2 episodes
1982 Remington Steele GutmanEpisode: "Thou Shalt Not Steele"
1986Twelfth Night Sir Toby Belch Television film
1989 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Colonel StacyEpisode: "Reunion"
1989The Comedy of ErrorsDuke of EphesusTelevision film
1993–1994 Street Legal Arthur Locke6 episodes
1994 Incident in a Small Town SeawrightTelevision film
1994, 1996 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Frank Cooper2 episodes
1994–1997 X-Men Apocalypse 7 episodes
1998 Silver Surfer Galactus 6 episodes
1998–2000 Mythic Warriors Narrator26 episodes

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