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
editAmong 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
editFilm
edit| 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
edit| 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 |