Wayne Robson
| Wayne Robson | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 29, 1946 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | April 4, 2011 (aged 64) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | actor |
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Wayne Robson (April 29, 1946 – April 4, 2011) was a Canadian television, film and stage actor best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show from 1993 to 2006, as well as in the 2002 film Duct Tape Forever.
Robson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He began his acting career in Vancouver, acting on stage. In the 1970s he moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he continued his stage acting career and appeared in Canadian television commercials. After receiving several small character roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Popeye (1980), Robson starred in the 1984 film The Grey Fox for which he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Robson voiced Bloom in the cartoon Pippi Longstocking and Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series. Robson played minor characters in such films as Finders Keepers (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Parents (1989), Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Two If by Sea (1996), Cube (1997), Welcome to Mooseport (2004), and Survival of the Dead (2009). He appeared as Christie in the TV movie The Diviners (1993) based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Margaret Laurence, and as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones, in the TV movie Harlan County War (2000). Robson was nominated and won several Gemini Awards. He also appeared in the TV series and miniseries The Good Germany, Puppets Who Kill, Franklin, Relic Hunter, Chasing Rainbows and Lexx.
[edit] Death
Robson died at his home on April 4, 2011 at the age of 64, the cause of death was not disclosed.[1]
