Canadian actor Rod Beattie (1948-) is best known for his one-man performances in the Wingfield Series, seven plays written by Dan Needles. The plays follow stockbroker Walt Wingfield and his adventures as he takes on farming as a career move in the fictional Ontario town of Persephone Township. Wingfield buys up the old 200 acre fisher place.
The plays have been staged throughout Canada as well as on television. Rod won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for the year 1991-92 for his performances in the stage productions. On Canadian radio, the actor admitted that he wished he could be more like his alter ego for his 'courage, idealism and 'sticktoitiveness''. He spoke of Walt's deep devotion to his herd of twenty-five cows and his love of 'taking care of stuff.'
The Dora Mavor Moore Award were set up in 1978 to recognize and reward excellence in opera, dance and theater in Toronto. Each winner is presented with a bronze statue.
The affable actor has one of those immediately recognizable faces that you know you've seen before but are unable to recollect exactly where. That feature, along with his amazing talent for switching to different voices, are what make him so believable in the demanding persona of Walt, along with every other character in all of the plays. He manages to credibly portray, in the blink of an eye, as diverse individuals as the 'squire' next door, his wife, his dog and the family tractor. He admits that it takes a lot of practice to make the rapid fire changes that are often necessary. To the viewer, the change is almost imperceptible.
Rod's Opening Night performance in 'Wingfield Lost and Found' at the Citadel Theater in Edmonton, Alberta, was his four thousandth performance in a Wingfield play over a period of more than a quarter of a century.
The Canadian actor also appeared as the character Levitt in the 1983 film, 'The Wars, ' a historiographic fictional tale of Robert Ross, an officer in the Canadian forces in World War I. The protagonist, tortured with guilt following the death of his sister, joins the army to get away and start a new life. The film is a dramatization of Timothy Findley's 1977 novel. Beattie appeared for 15 years in Ontario's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. While the Bard's plays are a prominent feature of the Festival, everything from Greek tragedy to contemporary works are displayed there.
He was married to American-born actress Martha Henry, with whom he toured in the play, 'Love Letters'. Henry is ten years older than her third ex-husband.
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The plays have been staged throughout Canada as well as on television. Rod won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for the year 1991-92 for his performances in the stage productions. On Canadian radio, the actor admitted that he wished he could be more like his alter ego for his 'courage, idealism and 'sticktoitiveness''. He spoke of Walt's deep devotion to his herd of twenty-five cows and his love of 'taking care of stuff.'
The Dora Mavor Moore Award were set up in 1978 to recognize and reward excellence in opera, dance and theater in Toronto. Each winner is presented with a bronze statue.
The affable actor has one of those immediately recognizable faces that you know you've seen before but are unable to recollect exactly where. That feature, along with his amazing talent for switching to different voices, are what make him so believable in the demanding persona of Walt, along with every other character in all of the plays. He manages to credibly portray, in the blink of an eye, as diverse individuals as the 'squire' next door, his wife, his dog and the family tractor. He admits that it takes a lot of practice to make the rapid fire changes that are often necessary. To the viewer, the change is almost imperceptible.
Rod's Opening Night performance in 'Wingfield Lost and Found' at the Citadel Theater in Edmonton, Alberta, was his four thousandth performance in a Wingfield play over a period of more than a quarter of a century.
The Canadian actor also appeared as the character Levitt in the 1983 film, 'The Wars, ' a historiographic fictional tale of Robert Ross, an officer in the Canadian forces in World War I. The protagonist, tortured with guilt following the death of his sister, joins the army to get away and start a new life. The film is a dramatization of Timothy Findley's 1977 novel. Beattie appeared for 15 years in Ontario's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. While the Bard's plays are a prominent feature of the Festival, everything from Greek tragedy to contemporary works are displayed there.
He was married to American-born actress Martha Henry, with whom he toured in the play, 'Love Letters'. Henry is ten years older than her third ex-husband.
rod beattie
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