Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian

Actors

• Aykroyd, Dan: Comedian, Actor. "Saturday Night Live", "The Blues Brothers"
• Bain, Conrad: Actor. "Diff'rent Strokes", "Maude".
• Bairstow, Scott: Actor. "Lonesome Dove: The Series"
• Bluteau, Lothaire : Actor. "Jesus of Montreal", "Black Robe"
• Bochner, Lloyd: Actor. "Dynasty", "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"
• Burr, Raymond: Actor. "Perry Mason", "Ironside"
• Candy, John: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"
• Carrey, Jim: Comedian, Actor. "The Mask", "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "The Truman Show"
• Carson, Jack: Actor. "Mildred Pierce", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
• Chaykin, Maury: Actor. "Dances with Wolves", "Whale Music", "Buried on Sunday"
• Chong, Thomas: Comedian, Actor. Half of Cheech and Chong
• Colicos, John: Actor. "Anne of a Thousand Days", "The Postman Always Rings Twice", played the first Klingon on "Star Trek", "Battlestar Galactica"
• Cronyn, Hume: Actor. "Shadow of a Doubt", "Sunrise at Campobello", "Cocoon"
• Doohan, James: Actor. Scotty on "Star Trek"
• Elliott, David James: Actor. "Melrose Place", "JAG"
• Foley, David: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall", "News Radio"
• Ford, Glenn: Actor. "Gilda", "The Big Heat", "The Blackboard Jungle".
• Fox, Michael J.: Actor. "Back to the Future", "Family Ties"
• Fraser, Brendan: Actor. "Gods and Monsters", "The Mummy"
• Frewer, Matt: Actor. played "Max Headroom", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Star Trek:TNG"
• George, Chief Dan: Actor. "Little Big Man" (AAN), "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
• Goulet, Robert: Singer, Actor. "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"
• Greene, Graham: Actor. "Dances with Wolves" (AAN)
• Greene, Lorne: Actor. Played Ben Cartwright on "Bonanza", "Battlestar Galactica"
• Greenwood, Bruce: Actor. "Exotica", "St. Elsewhere", "Nowhere Man"
• Gross, Paul: Actor. "Due South", "Buried on Sunday"
• Hartman, Phil: Actor, Comedian. "Saturday Night Live", "News Radio"
• Hill, Arthur: Actor. "The Andromeda Strain", "A Bridge Too Far"
• Huston, Walter: Actor. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (AA), "Dodsworth", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", father of John Huston
• Ireland, John: Actor. "All the King's Men", "Spartacus"
• Ironside, Michael: Actor. "Scanners", "Top Gun", "Total Recall"
• Levy, Eugene: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV"
• Lockhart, Gene: Actor. "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "His Girl Friday", "Algiers" (AAN)
• McCormack, Eric: Actor. "Will & Grace", "Street Justice"
• McCulloch, Bruce: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"
• McDonald, Kevin: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall"
• MacDonald, Norm: Comedian, Actor: "Saturday Night Live"
• McKinney, Mark: Comedian. "Kids in the Hall", "Saturday Night Live"
• Mandel, Howie: Comedian, Actor. "St. Elsewhere"
• Manners, David: Actor, Author. "Dracula" (1930), "The Mummy"
• Massey, Raymond: Actor. "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"(AAN), "East of Eden", "The Naked and the Dead"
• Moranis, Rick: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
• Morse, Barry: Actor. "The Fugitive" (the original series), "Space 1999"
• Myers, Mike: Comedian, Actor. Wayne Campbell on "Saturday Night Live"
• Neville, John: Actor. "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"
• Nielsen, Leslie: Actor. "The Naked Gun", "Forbidden Planet". Brother was Deputy Prime Minister
• Ontkean, Michael: Actor. "The Rookies", "Twin Peaks".
• Perry, Matthew: Actor. "Friends"
• Pidgeon, Walter: Actor. "How Green Was My Valley", "Forbidden Planet"
• Pinsent, Gordon: Actor, Writer. "The Rowdy Man", "Who has Seen the Wind?", "John and the Missus", "Due South"
• Plummer, Christopher: Actor. "The Sound of Music", "Star Trek VI"
• Priestley, Jason: Actor. "Beverly Hills 90210"
• Qualen, John: Actor. "Casablanca", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "The Searchers", "Anatomy of a Murder"
• Reeves, Keanu: Actor. "Johnny Mnemonic", "Speed", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"
• Rubinek, Saul: Actor. "Unforgiven", "The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick", "Star Trek:TNG"
• Russell, Harold: Actor, Soldier. received two Academy Awards for role in "The Best Years of Our Lives"
• Sarrazin, Michael: Actor. "They Shoot Horses Don't They?", "Joshua Then and Now"
• Sennett, Mack: Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer. the Keystone Kops, "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
• Shatner, William: Actor. Captain James T. Kirk on "Star Trek"
• Short, Martin: Comedian, Actor. "SCTV", "Saturday Night Live", "Clifford"
• Silverheels, Jay: Actor. Tonto on "The Lone Ranger", "Key Largo"
• Sutherland, Donald: Actor. "M*A*S*H", "Klute", "Ordinary People", "Eye of the Needle", "Bethune"
• Sutherland, Kiefer: Actor, Director. "The Bay Boy", "Stand By Me", "A Few Good Men"
• Thicke, Alan: Actor. "Hope and Gloria"
• Thomas, Dave: Comedian. "SCTV", "Strange Brew", "Grace Under Fire"
• Thompson, Scott: Comedian, Actor. "Kids in the Hall"
• Vernon, John: Actor. "Animal House", "Dirty Harry"
• Wincott, Jeff: "Night Heat"
• Wincott, Michael: "The Crow", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves", "1492, Conquest of Paradise"
• Wiseman, Joseph: Actor. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", played "Dr. No"

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