James Blendick is a retired Canadian character actor 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.NYTimes
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1976ShootPete1980CordéliaBourreau Radcliff1980Resurrection1st Scientist1981Years of the BeastJackson McKifer1983Star 80Gunseller1983UtilitiesKenneth Knight1993Guilty as SinMcMartin1995Tommy BoyRon Gilmore2010The TempestGonzalo
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1966Julius CaesarFirst citizenTelevision film1969The Three MusketeersPorthos1975PerformanceMattEpisode: "Lulu Street"1975The Invisible ManSandersEpisode: "Pin Money"1976Police StoryDr. MolterEpisode: "Oxford Gray"1977Mary Hartman, Mary HartmanLt. BermanEpisode #1.251977KojakPhil BreanEpisode: "Case Without a File"1978The Bionic WomanCarsonEpisode: "The Antidote"1978Loose ChangeBob O'BrianMiniseries1979Barnaby JonesHal Coburn2 episodes1979Crisis in Mid-AirIrvTelevision film1981The Other VictimMack Fisher1981Star WarsGeneral Dodonna2 episodes1982Remington SteeleGutmanEpisode: "Thou Shalt Not Steele"1986Twelfth NightSir Toby BelchTelevision film1989Alfred Hitchcock PresentsColonel StacyEpisode: "Reunion"1989The Comedy of ErrorsDuke of EphesusTelevision film1993–1994Street LegalArthur Locke6 episodes1994Incident in a Small TownSeawrightTelevision film1994, 1996Kung Fu: The Legend ContinuesFrank Cooper2 episodes1994–1997X-MenApocalypse 7 episodes1998Silver SurferGalactus6 episodes1998–2000Mythic WarriorsNarrator26 episodes
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