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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2017 13:34:39 GMT
I've been compiling a list of actors/actresses from Canada who were active on screen during what we all call the classic era. Please take a look and see if I'm omitting anyone you may know of. I learned a bit doing this, I had zero idea that Walter Huston or Walter Pidgeon were Canadian! The first 007 villain, Dr. No, was Canadian (Joseph Wiseman), as was Miss Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell. King Kong's main squeeze, Fay Wray was Canadian also. Jay Silverheels, Tonto, from The Lone Ranger, another fellow Canuck. The second, third and fourth Best Actress Oscar winners were all Canadian women: 1928/1929: Mary Pickford ( Coquette) 1929/1930: Norma Shearer ( The Divorcee) 1930/1931: Marie Dressler ( Min and Bill) Mary Pickford had an actor brother, Jack Pickford, and an actress sister, Lottie Pickford. www.imdb.com/list/ls064664051/?publish=save |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 13, 2017 14:13:53 GMT
I know it's the obvious choice, but... Christopher Plummer?
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2017 14:35:06 GMT
I know it's the obvious choice, but... Christopher Plummer? Well, duh, now I feel stupid.  Then again, maybe I overlooked him because he's still alive and everyone else on my list has died.  Adding him now... |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 13, 2017 14:42:47 GMT
I know it's the obvious choice, but... Christopher Plummer? Well, duh, now I feel stupid. Then again, maybe I overlooked him because he's still alive and everyone else on my list has died. Adding him now... Oh, Lord, don't feel stupid. In fact, Plummer was on my mind because I'd recently been researching the Transatlantic accent, which for some reason interests me greatly. (Accents as a whole interest me [heck, I'm a Long Islander living in Boston--I know accents]--I've been working on a news piece about the Boston Brahmins, who have now all but disappeared, sadly.) I knew about Joseph Wiseman and Lois Maxwell, as well as Walter Huston and Walter Pidgeon, for some reason. Yet I'd completely failed to realize, or forgotten, about Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, and Norma Shearer. |
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Post by bravomailer on May 13, 2017 14:51:26 GMT
Glenn Ford
Raymond Massey
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Post by wanton87 on May 13, 2017 15:10:16 GMT
Glenn Ford (Credited as being the fastest gun in Hollywood). Lorne Greene (Pa Cartwright, Adama). And the babealicious Dianne Foster come to mind right off.  |
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Post by wanton87 on May 13, 2017 15:12:19 GMT
Opps, sorry bravomailer. I was typing this up and didn't see that you had already included Glenn Ford.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2017 15:25:49 GMT
Glenn Ford (Credited as being the fastest gun in Hollywood). Lorne Greene (Pa Cartwright, Adama). And the babealicious Dianne Foster come to mind right off. I didn't have Dianne Foster, thanks for the addition to my list. |
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Post by bondfan90 on May 13, 2017 15:26:22 GMT
Yvonne Shima played Sister Lily in Dr No. _-_Profile.jpg) John Vernon played the mayor of San Francisco in Dirty Harry.  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2017 15:48:52 GMT
Yvonne Shima played Sister Lily in Dr No. John Vernon played the mayor of San Francisco in Dirty Harry. Thanks for the suggestions. I have the great John Vernon already. Yvonne Shima I did not have. Can't find any information on here anywhere, is she still alive? |
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Post by bondfan90 on May 13, 2017 20:54:08 GMT
Yvonne Shima played Sister Lily in Dr No. John Vernon played the mayor of San Francisco in Dirty Harry. Thanks for the suggestions. I have the great John Vernon already. Yvonne Shima I did not have. Can't find any information on here anywhere, is she still alive? There isn't any more information on Yvonne Shima available. Her bio on imdb states that she's Japanese Canadian and that's it. She's not worked since the 60's. |
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Post by bondfan90 on May 13, 2017 21:05:55 GMT
Found two more Canadians to go on this thread. Austin Willis, who played Mr Simmons in Goldfinger.  Cec Linder was the second actor to play Felix Leiter in the film.  |
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Post by london777 on May 13, 2017 21:08:51 GMT
Robert Beatty, who mainly acted in English films, often as an American, and sometimes in leading roles in the '40s and '50s. His career continued until 1989, mainly in TV and C-list movies, though he did have a part in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Robert Beatty |
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Post by teleadm on May 13, 2017 21:15:42 GMT
Co-star of many Greer Garson movies Walter Pidgeon was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. and Donald Sutherland was born in New Brunswick too.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2017 22:03:41 GMT
Found two more Canadians to go on this thread. Austin Willis, who played Mr Simmons in Goldfinger. Cec Linder was the second actor to play Felix Leiter in the film. I wasn't aware of Austin Willis, and he was born and died in the same city I live in, thanks for the suggestions. Starting to realize the 007 series is full of Canadians. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2017 22:05:20 GMT
Robert Beatty, who mainly acted in English films, often as an American, and sometimes in leading roles in the '40s and '50s. His career continued until 1989, mainly in TV and C-list movies, though he did have a part in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Another name I was not familiar with, even though I'd seen him before. Thanks! |
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Post by bravomailer on May 13, 2017 22:06:36 GMT
Leslie Nielsen. Forbidden Planet might be from the classic era.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 23:41:49 GMT
Raymond Burr was *born* in Canada, though I think he was moved to the US when he was still a kid. And his mother, I think, was US-born-&-raised as well. But his father was Canadian and I have run into more than one person who has said that he should be considered a "Canadian actor" and not rather a "Canadian-born American actor". He also did go back and forth between the two countries doing theater work, and making visits with hospitalized vets during WWII. Don't recall what his official citizenship status was - Canadian, American or Dual, if that would matter.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 14, 2017 15:19:22 GMT
Leslie Nielsen. Forbidden Planet might be from the classic era. Could you get a more Canadian photo?  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 14, 2017 15:22:55 GMT
Raymond Burr was *born* in Canada, though I think he was moved to the US when he was still a kid. And his mother, I think, was US-born-&-raised as well. But his father was Canadian and I have run into more than one person who has said that he should be considered a "Canadian actor" and not rather a "Canadian-born American actor". He also did go back and forth between the two countries doing theater work, and making visits with hospitalized vets during WWII. Don't recall what his official citizenship status was - Canadian, American or Dual, if that would matter. Canada proudly considers Burr one of our own, our meathooks are deep in, he's ours!  |
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