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Robin Gammell | |
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| Born | September 22, 1936 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | film, television and stage actor |
| Partner | Gretchen Corbett |
| Children | Winslow Corbett |
Robin Gammell (born September 22, 1936) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor. [1]
Gammell began acting as a junior ensemble member at the Stratford Festival, [1] playing roles including Robin Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream , [2] Octavius in Julius Caesar , [3] Ariel in The Tempest , [4] and Malcolm in Macbeth ; he later reprised this role for the 1961 television film Macbeth opposite Sean Connery in the title role. He later moved on to film and television work, including the films The Pyx (1973), Lipstick (1976), Raid on Entebbe (1977), Rituals (1977), Full Circle (1977), The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979), Murder by Phone (1982), The Star Chamber (1983), Project X (1987) and Striker's Mountain (1987), recurring or starring roles in Wiseguy , WIOU , Street Legal , Amazing Grace , Millennium , Manhattan, AZ and Judging Amy , and guest appearances in The Blue and the Gray , Hill Street Blues , L.A. Law , The Commish , Murder, She Wrote , Matlock , Nip/Tuck , Star Trek: The Next Generation , and How to Get Away With Murder . He received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor, at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980, for Klondike Fever. [5]
Gammell has also portrayed several noted historical figures in docudrama films and television series, including Walter Moberly in The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway , American espionage chief William J. Donovan in the television miniseries A Man Called Intrepid , [1] and Adolf Hitler in an episode of Witness to Yesterday . [6]
Gammell was in a relationship with Gretchen Corbett. They had one child, Winslow Corbett, in 1979.[ citation needed ]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Hamlet | Francisco / Gravedigger / Player #2 | |
| 1973 | The Pyx | Worther | |
| 1976 | Lipstick | Nathan Cartright | |
| 1977 | Rituals | Martin | |
| 1977 | Full Circle | David Swift | |
| 1979 | The Promise | Doctor Wickfield | |
| 1979 | The Concorde ... Airport '79 | William Halpern | |
| 1980 | Klondike Fever | Merritt Sloper | |
| 1980 | Obsession | Mr. Norton | |
| 1982 | Murder by Phone | Noah Clayton | |
| 1982 | Highpoint | Banner | |
| 1983 | The Star Chamber | Judge Archer | |
| 1983 | Nightmares | Bishop | |
| 1987 | Project X | Col. Niles | |
| 1991 | Guilty by Suspicion | Clyde H. Tavenner | |
| 1993 | Dave | Postmaster General | |
| 1993 | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Archdiocese Person #2 | |
| 1997 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | British UN Representative | |
| 1997 | Contact | Project Official | |
| 1998 | Bulworth | Geoffrey | |
| 1998 | Last Night | Mr. Wheeler | |
| 1998 | Bone Daddy | Cobb | |
| 2010 | Skyline | Walt | |
| 2012 | Victory Blvd | Nick's Father | |
| 2013 | Lonely Boy | Lou | |
| 2020 | She's in Portland | Dennis |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Sunday Night Theatre | English youth | Episode: "Mrs. Wickens in the Fall" |
| 1957 | O.S.S. | 2nd Seaman | Episode: "Operation Barbecue" |
| 1960 | Emergency Ward 10 | Dingle | Episode #1.305 |
| 1960 | Armchair Theatre | Wal | Episode: "Some Talk of Alexander" |
| 1960 | First Person | Willie | Episode: "A Matter of Some Importance" |
| 1960–1962 | Festival | Humphrey Devize / Eli / Octavius | 4 episodes |
| 1961 | Macbeth | Malcolm | Television film |
| 1961 | The Man Born to Be King | John | |
| 1961–1963 | Playdate | David / Sean Malloy / Albert | 3 episodes |
| 1963 | Quest | Veteran | Episode: "The Wounded Soldier" |
| 1974 | Dr. Simon Locke | Sutton | Episode: "Man Outside" |
| 1974 | The National Dream | Walter Moberly | 2 episodes |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Mr. Sager | Television film |
| 1977 | Panic in Echo Park | Dr. Tishman | |
| 1978 | The Rockford Files | Donald Pilmer | Episode: "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead" |
| 1978 | The Winds of Kitty Hawk | H.A. Toumlin | Television film |
| 1979 | The Great Detective | Lansdowne | Episode: "The Case of the Magic Mandarin" |
| 1979 | Jennifer: A Woman's Story | Dr. Bob Symon | Television film |
| 1979 | The Lazarus Syndrome | Dr. Meredith | Episode: "The Lady in 534" |
| 1979 | A Man Called Intrepid | William Donovan | 3 episodes |
| 1980 | Lou Grant | Howard Gunther | Episode: "Libel" |
| 1982 | Trapper John, M.D. | Dugan | Episode: "The One and Only" |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Jacob Hale Sr. | 3 episodes |
| 1982 | Wait Until Dark | Sgt. Carlino | Television film |
| 1982–1986 | Hill Street Blues | Douglas Comstock / Lt. Patterson | 3 episodes |
| 1983 | Thursday's Child | Dr. Schroeder | Television film |
| 1983 | Deadly Lessons | Morgan Rank | |
| 1983 | Missing Pieces | Sen. Lawrence Conrad | |
| 1983 | The Paper Chase | Attorney General Patterson | Episode: "Birthday Party" |
| 1983 | Wishman | Dr. Harold Wish | Television film |
| 1983 | The Last Ninja | Dr. McAllister | |
| 1983 | Happy Endings | Uncle John Constantine | |
| 1983 | A Case of Libel | Paul Cleary | |
| 1984 | The Vegas Strip War | Marvin Berman | |
| 1985 | Simon & Simon | Dr. Harcroft | Episode: "Almost Foolproof" |
| 1985 | Kids Don't Tell | Dr. Houghton | Television film |
| 1985 | The Edison Twins | Mr. Moran | Episode: "The Final Mystery" |
| 1985 | Striker's Mountain | Rob Wilmer | Television film |
| 1985 | Streets of Justice | Judge Phineas Odets | |
| 1985 | Between the Darkness and the Dawn | Dr. Langtry | |
| 1986 | The Twilight Zone | Jeffrey Potts | Episode: "Need to Know/Red Snow" |
| 1986 | American Playhouse | Cleary, Boyd Bendix' lawyer | Episode: "A Case of Libel" |
| 1987 | L.A. Law | Judge John Englander | 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Roomies | Dean DeWitt | Episode: "The Ditch" |
| 1987 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Tom Webb | Episode: "An Enemy Among Us" |
| 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Lewis Arthur | Episode: "Siege" |
| 1987 | Our House | Dr. Hannibal | Episode: "Candles and Shadows" |
| 1987 | The King of Love | Arnold Spare | Television film |
| 1988 | Lincoln | Stephen A. Douglas | 2 episodes |
| 1988–1989 | Wiseguy | Senator Delaney | 3 episodes |
| 1988, 1992 | Murder, She Wrote | Roger Melton / Dr. Thor Lundquist | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure | Msha Investigator Thomas Kaye | Television film |
| 1990 | Snoops | Gunther Appleton | Episode: "Rough Justice" |
| 1990–1991 | WIOU | Kevin Doherty | 18 episodes |
| 1991 | The Commish | William Sturdivant | Episode: "In the Best of Families" |
| 1992 | The Boys of Twilight | Dave Theilman | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1992 | Tropical Heat | Booth | Episode: "Users" |
| 1992 | Majority Rule | Stuart Hammel | Television film |
| 1992 | Civil Wars | Judge Michael Cassidy | 3 episodes |
| 1992 | E.N.G. | George Patrick | Episode: "Double Vision" |
| 1993 | Matlock | Marvin Estes | Episode: "The Fortune" |
| 1993 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Mauric | Episode: "Attached" |
| 1993–1994 | Street Legal | Spencer Garvie | 4 episodes |
| 1994 | M.A.N.T.I.S. | Doctor Bill Lamar | Episode: "Days of Rage" |
| 1994 | Scales of Justice | Cyril Belshaw | Episode "L'Affaire Belshaw" |
| 1995 | Amazing Grace | Arthur Sutherland | 5 episodes |
| 1995 | When the Vows Break | Judge Wendell Adams | Television film |
| 1995 | Murder One | Judge Joseph Leyland | Episode: "Chapter Seven" |
| 1995 | Net Worth | Conn Smythe | Television film |
| 1996 | Circuit Breaker | Dr. Milton | |
| 1996 | If These Walls Could Talk | Jim Donnelly | |
| 1996 | Jules | Brent | |
| 1996, 1997 | Dark Skies | Dr. Hertzog / Dr. Herzog | 2 episodes |
| 1996, 1997 | Millennium | Mike Atkins | |
| 1997 | The Arrow | C. D. Howe | Television film |
| 1997 | The Practice | Michael Small | Episode: "Trial and Error" |
| 1998 | Party of Five | Professor Sinclair | Episode: "True or False" |
| 1998 | Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension | Mr. Conrad | Episode: "The Newsroom" |
| 1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Clark Nugent | Television film |
| 1998 | His Bodyguard | Rollston | |
| 1998 | The Girl Next Door | Len Winters | |
| 2000 | Manhattan, AZ | Lon | 9 episodes |
| 2000–2005 | Judging Amy | Judge Salinger | 4 episodes |
| 2002 | Earth: Final Conflict | Judge Jackson Claridge | Episode: "Subversion" |
| 2002 | Strong Medicine | Dana's Lawyer | Episode: "Outcomes" |
| 2005 | Nip/Tuck | Carl Harkness | Episode: "Rhea Reynolds" |
| 2007 | Saving Grace | Hoyt Garvey | Episode: "Taco, Tulips, Duck and Spices" |
| 2008 | Eli Stone | Judge | Episode: "Freedom" |
| 2009 | The Border | Dr. Tysdale | Episode: "Missing in Action" |
| 2014 | How to Get Away with Murder | Chief Justice | Episode: "Freakin' Whack-a-Mole" |
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