Geoffrey Bowes
Geoffrey Bowes (born May 15, 1956) is a Canadian actor.[1] He is most noted for his performance in the 1979 film Something's Rotten, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980.[2]
Career
[edit]Bowes's roles have included the films Fish Hawk, Middle Age Crazy, War Brides,[3] Jewel, Dirty Pictures and Say Nothing, supporting or guest appearances in the television series Street Legal, F/X: The Series, Wind at My Back, Due South, Degrassi: The Next Generation and This Is Wonderland, voice roles in Babar and The Neverending Story, and stage roles in productions of Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter,[4] Erika Ritter's Automatic Pilot,[5] David Fennario's Toronto,[6] George F. Walker's Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline,[1] and Brian Drader's The Norbals.[7] He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981, as Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play, for his performance in Automatic Pilot.[8]
Now semi-retired from acting, he launched his own home renovation company in 2014.[1] In 2018, he published Open Up the Wall, a memoir of his work as a contractor.[1]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Something's Rotten | Prince Calvin | |
| 1979 | Fish Hawk | Towsack Charlie | |
| 1980 | Middle Age Crazy | Greg | |
| 1980 | Hot Dogs (Les chiens chauds) | Maurice | |
| 1981 | The Soldier's Story | American soldier | Voice |
| 1997 | Time to Say Goodbye? | Stroup's Assistant | |
| 1999 | Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story | Probation Officer | |
| 2001 | Say Nothing | Jack | |
| 2005 | The Man | Phone Agent | |
| 2012 | Hunting Season | Marti | |
| 2012 | Stories We Tell | Storyteller | Documentary |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | War Brides | Garret | Television film |
| 1981 | Tales of the Klondike | Billy | Episode: "Finis" |
| 1984 | The Edison Twins | Chuck Cavanaugh | Episode: "Double Trouble" |
| 1985 | Comedy Factory | Various roles | 8 episodes |
| 1987 | The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe | Hank | Television film |
| 1988 | Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird | John Talbot | |
| 1987–1992 | Street Legal | Nathan Goldberg / Doug Somers | 6 episodes |
| 1989 | War of the Worlds | Colin | Episode: "Unto Us a Child Is Born" |
| 1989 | Murder by Night | Young Doctor | Television film |
| 1989 | Sorry, Wrong Number | Rob | |
| 1989, 1990 | T. and T. | Masked Man / Hendrix | 2 episodes |
| 1989–1991 | Babar | Additional voices | 65 episodes |
| 1991 | E.N.G. | Spokesperson | Episode: "Up on the Roof" |
| 1992 | Counterstrike | Dr. Menges | Episode: "D.O.A." |
| 1992 | Catwalk | George James | Episode: "Billy's Blues" |
| 1993 | Gregory K | Jordan McLean | Television film |
| 1993 | Matrix | Hogan | Episode: "Shadows from the Past" |
| 1993 | The Hidden Room | Adult Mike | Episode: "Jillie" |
| 1994 | The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story | Dr. Mason | Television film |
| 1994 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Blake Ralston | Episode: "Only the Strong Survive" |
| 1995–1996 | The Neverending Story | Barney | 23 episodes |
| 1996 | Goosebumps | Mr. Tucker | 2 episodes |
| 1996 | Hostile Advances | Mike | Television film |
| 1996 | Psi Factor | Blaine McCallister | Episode: "Dream House/UFO Encounter" |
| 1996 | F/X: The Series | Hossick | Episode: "Target" |
| 1997 | Johnny 2.0 | APS Commander | Television film |
| 1998 | When Husbands Cheat | Minister | |
| 1998 | Due South | Larry | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Evidence of Blood | Young Horace Talbott | Television film |
| 1999 | Ultimate Deception | Hay | |
| 1999 | If You Believe | George Stone | |
| 2000 | Dirty Pictures | Suit | |
| 2000 | On Hostile Ground | Frank, Chief Engineer | |
| 2001 | The Associates | Mr. Castillo | Episode: "Disclosure" |
| 2001 | Jewel | Dr. Beaudry | Television film |
| 2001 | Wind at My Back | Willie Easterbrook | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Sex, Lies & Obsession | Carl | Television film |
| 2001 | A Taste of Shakespeare | Kent / Narrator | Episode: "King Lear" |
| 2001, 2004 | Degrassi: The Next Generation | Todd McGregor | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Recipe for Murder | Julius Klein | Television film |
| 2003 | DC 9/11: Time of Crisis | Tom Daschle | |
| 2004 | Hustle | Tommy Helms |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof, "Bowes, Geoffrey". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.
- ^ "War Brides ties poignant dramatic knot". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 1980.
- ^ Bryan Johnson, "Prayer flawed by phony accents". The Globe and Mail, May 3, 1978.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "This Pilot deserves automatic success". The Globe and Mail, January 18, 1980.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Fennario's Toronto a facile dart game". The Globe and Mail, February 3, 1978.
- ^ Kate Taylor, "Slight comedy feels like TV sitcom: Only its strong cast saves this new play about a dysfunctional family Christmas"]. The Globe and Mail, November 14, 1998.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Dora Mavor Moore Awards suffer from stage fright". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1981.
External links
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- Canadian male stage actors
- Canadian male television actors
- Canadian male voice actors
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Dora Mavor Moore Award winners
- Male actors from Ontario
- Living people
- National Theatre School of Canada alumni
- 21st-century Canadian memoirists
- 1956 births