Roland Hewgill
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roland Hewgill (February 11, 1929 – November 9, 1998) was a Canadian actor. Primarily a stage actor, most famously associated with the Stratford Festival, he also had a number of film and television roles. Born in Montreal, Quebec and raised primarily in Kingston, Ontario, Hewgill joined the Stratford Festival in 1954. Roles he played at Stratford over the course of his career included Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman, Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi, Jaques in As You Like It, Cornwall in King Lear and Creon in Oedipus Rex. His roles for other theatres included Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, Relling in The Wild Duck, Dr. Rank in A Doll's House and Andrey Bottvinik in A Walk in the Woods. He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award as Best Actor in a Featured Role in 1986 for his performance in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and was a shortlisted nominee as Actor in a Principal Role in a Play in 1988 for Play Memory. On television he was most noted for his role as Bob Lipton in the comedy-drama series Airwaves, and in film he appeared in John and the Missus and Beautiful Dreamers. He was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for John and the Missus.
Known For
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Day One
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
Beautiful Dreamers
The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.
Oedipus Rex
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
John and the Missus
Maggie is an ordinary Canadian girl with the best of intentions who has signed on to work in a Catholic mission in Zimbabwe. With an ample supply of enthusiasm and ignorance, she consistently demonstrates her lack of understanding of the local culture. When she is robbed, she fights for the release of the man convicted of the crime and belatedly makes some attempt to understand her environment.
The Midday Sun
A glimpse into the nature of loneliness. Frances Hyland plays the part of a small-town girl who enjoys position and respect in her community as the owner of a successful dress shop, but who wonders if marriage might not have been a better choice. Disturbed by thoughts of what might have been, she resolves to live each day as it comes.