
Larry Reese
Acting
Biography
Larry Reese was born in 1951 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. He grew up in Greeley Colorado then immigrated to Canada in 1960. His family moved to Dacca East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1966. On a trip to Calcutta he had the opportunity to meet and learn about sitar from Ravi Shankar. On returning to Canada in 1968 Larry played guitar and recorded with several bands (Manna and Spiney Norman's Whooppee Band) and toured North America with the Canadian Rock Opera Company in 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. He was the opening act for the Procol Harum LP "Live With the Edmonton Symphony' and played sitar on "In Held Twas I". Larry got a BMUS. degree in Music Composition from the University of Alberta and wrote film scores for the NFB. He got his Master's Degree in Acting from Brandeis University, Massachusetes in 1978 and returned to Canada to work as an actor and teacher in theater and on film and TV. Larry has worked with such notables as Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee, James Caan, Heath Ledger, Michael Ironside and Gene Hackman, to name a few. He has appeared in a lead role the Canadian classic, 'The Hounds of Notre Dame' and is a producer, director and co-writer for the award winning independent feature, 'Naked Frailties'. He now heads the Motion Picture Arts Program at Red Deer College. Many of his students have gone on to stellar careers in television and film. He lives with his family beside beautiful Sylvan Lake.
Known For

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Brokeback Mountain

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Unforgiven

Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.
Jake and The Kid

At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
In Cold Blood

Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, bears and moose.
Wild America

A film based on the tragic death in 1985 of Nancy Eaton, department store heiress, brutally murdered by her childhood family friend.
The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton

Hardworking and dedicated seamstress, Hannah McKenzie, runs a side business making bespoke wedding dresses when she’s not busy with her day job at renowned bridal salon, Millington’s. Her operation is soon threatened, however, when Will Millington, heir to the bridal empire, comes in looking to revamp the brand. Along the way, the two manage to sort out their differences, work together and perhaps even fall in love…
Team Bride

It's the winter of 1940. Father Athol Murray - "Pere" to most that know him - is an opinionated, chain-smoking, hard drinking parish priest at Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. His strong opinions include his disdain for socialism as epitomized by the CCF party in Saskatchewan and the current war which has claimed too many lives including those of former students, needing to raise money to operate the College by whatever means, and not wanting others to emulate his vices - especially not wanting the students and women to smoke - while he blissfully enjoys those vices himself.
Hounds of Notre Dame

Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world, John D. Rockefeller III. Her future seems set: a dream life in the upper echelons of society. But when she least expects it, she meets a young painter from one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Their worlds are polar opposites. As their attraction turns their lives upside down, they soon face a universal question: Can you find "home" in another person?
Drawing Home

A defense attorney wife and her prosecutor husband square off in court over a murder case in which four young boys are accused.
Question of Privilege

I Think I Do is a romantic-relationship comedy about commitment, cold feet, the endurance of true love, the importance of family ties and the hard lesson learned that, try as we may, life simply does not go as planned.
I Think I Do

A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him to Canada, where she grows up with no knowledge of her family's past. Then, in the present, several deaths occur and people begin to think it's Katy Bane McKay.
Blood Clan

Melissa mysteriously disappears when she seeks out the truth behind her mother's death in an isolated farmhouse.