James Blendick

James Blendick (born 1941 - died november 2024) was 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.[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1976 Shoot Pete
1980 Cordélia Bourreau Radcliff
1980 Resurrection 1st Scientist
1981 Years of the Beast Jackson McKifer
1983 Star 80 Gunseller
1983 Utilities Kenneth Knight
1993 Guilty as Sin McMartin
1995 Tommy Boy Ron Gilmore
2010 The Tempest Gonzalo

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1966 Julius Caesar First citizen Television film
1969 The Three Musketeers Porthos
1975 Performance Matt Episode: "Lulu Street"
1975 The Invisible Man Sanders Episode: "Pin Money"
1976 Police Story Dr. Molter Episode: "Oxford Gray"
1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Lt. Berman Episode #1.25
1977 Kojak Phil Brean Episode: "Case Without a File"
1978 The Bionic Woman Carson Episode: "The Antidote"
1978 Loose Change Bob O'Brian Miniseries
1979 Barnaby Jones Hal Coburn 2 episodes
1979 Crisis in Mid-Air Irv Television film
1981 The Other Victim Mack Fisher
1981 Star Wars General Dodonna 2 episodes
1982 Remington Steele Gutman Episode: "Thou Shalt Not Steele"
1986 Twelfth Night Sir Toby Belch Television film
1989 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Colonel Stacy Episode: "Reunion"
1989 The Comedy of Errors Duke of Ephesus Television film
1993–1994 Street Legal Arthur Locke 6 episodes
1994 Incident in a Small Town Seawright Television film
1994, 1996 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Frank Cooper 2 episodes
1994–1997 X-Men Apocalypse 7 episodes
1998 Silver Surfer Galactus 6 episodes
1998–2000 Mythic Warriors Narrator 26 episodes

References

  1. ^ NYTimes