Geoffrey Bowes (born May 15, 1956) is a Canadian actor. 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.
Career
Bowes's roles have included the films Fish Hawk, Middle Age Crazy, War Brides, 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, Erika Ritter's Automatic Pilot, David Fennario's Toronto, George F. Walker's Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline, and Brian Drader's The Norbals. He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981, as Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play, for his performance in Automatic Pilot.
Now semi-retired from acting, he launched his own home renovation company in 2014. In 2018, he published Open Up the Wall, a memoir of his work as a contractor.
Filmography
Film
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
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
- ^ 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.
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Categories:- 20th-century Canadian male actors
- 21st-century Canadian male actors
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male film actors
- 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