Smith, Cedric 1943–

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SMITH, Cedric 1943–

PERSONAL

Born 1943, in Bournemouth, England; citizenship, Canadian; married Catherine Disher (an actress).

Addresses:

Agent—Premier Artists Management, 671 Danforth Ave., Suite 305, Toronto, Ontario M4J 1L3, Canada; (commercials) Bobby Ball Talent Agency, 4342 Lankershim Blvd., Universal City, CA 91602.

Career:

Actor, director, writer, and composer. Perth County Conspiracy (folk music group), Stratford, Ontario, Canada, founder, concert performer, and recording artist.

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award, 1993, and Gemini Award nominations, 1995 and 1997, all best performance by an actor in a continuing leading role in a dramatic series, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, for Road to Avonlea; Best Actor Award, Yorkton Film Festival, for In the Falls.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Luke, Teleplay, CBC, beginning 1976.

Captain Thomas Sims, The Campbells, Canadian television, Family Channel, and syndicated, 1986–89.

Alec King, Road to Avonlea (also known as Avonlea and Tales from Avonlea), CBC, 1989–97, The Disney Channel, 1990–97.

Voice of Count Geoffrey, Blazing Dragons (animated), beginning c. 1992.

Voice of Mentor, Silver Surfer (animated), Fox, 1998–99.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Reverend Allan, Anne of Green Gables, PBS, 1985.

Tony Wilson, Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher (also known as Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell), CBC, 1989, NBC, 1990.

Professor Bruce Hopper, JFK: Reckless Youth, NBC, 1993.

Lowell Thomas, Million Dollar Babies (also known as Les jumelles Dionne), CBS, 1994.

General Curtis Lemay, Hiroshima, Showtime, 1995.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Mr. Macdonald, Heaven on Earth, CBC and BBC, 1987, broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1988.

Commissioner Warner, The Penthouse, ABC, 1989.

Inspector Frost, Dick Francis: In the Frame (also known as In the Frame), syndicated, 1989.

Lieutenant Colonel Hatfield, Le peloton d'execution (also known as Firing Squad), CTV, 1991.

Shane O'Connolly, Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave (also known as Curse of the Viking Grave), Canadian television and The Disney Channel, 1991.

Dr. Frank Davis, Butterbox Babies (also known as Les nourrissons de la misere), Arts and Entertainment, 1996.

Edward Jordan, Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Everything to Gain" (also known as Barbara Taylor Bradford Trilogy: Everything to Gain and Everything to Gain), CBS, 1996.

Mike Spracklen, Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story, The Disney Channel, 1996.

Alec King, Happy Christmas, Miss King (also known as An Avonlea Christmas and Joyeux Noel Mademoiselle King), CBC, 1998.

Henry Baker, Thunder Point (also known as Jack Higgins' "Thunder Point"), Showtime, 1998.

Tim Bobek, The Long Island Incident, NBC, 1998.

Samuel "Sam" Casey, Sea People, Showtime, 1999.

Dr. Richards, Jenifer (also known as The Jenifer Estess Story), CBS, 2001.

Three Days, ABC Family Channel, 2001.

Dr. Jaffe, Heart of a Stranger, Lifetime, 2002.

President Harry S Truman, Keep the Faith, Baby, Showtime, 2002.

Thompson, Power and Beauty, Showtime, 2002.

More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story, Lifetime, 2003.

Pope's cardinal, Our Fathers, Showtime, 2005.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Michael Wellborne/Vincent McCarthy, In This Corner, CBC, 1985.

Duke of Milan (Il Moro), Leonardo: A Dream of Flight, HBO, 1997.

Francisco Goya, Goya: Awakened in a Dream, HBO, 1999.

Narrator, Turning Points of History, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Terry, "Rabies," The Littlest Hobo, syndicated, 1982.

Agent Jack Deacon, "The Fifth Man," Night Heat, CBS, 1985.

Max, "Matter of Honour," Street Legal, CBC, 1986.

Andrew Demarus, "The Privilege of Freedom," Night Heat, CBS, 1988.

Jeremy Sinclair, "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon," The Twilight Zone, syndicated, 1988.

Joe Fenton, "The Pirates Promise," Friday the 13th (also known as Friday's Curse and Friday the 13th: The Series), syndicated, 1988.

Paul Stevens, "VCR—Very Careful Rape," Alfred Hitchcock Presents, USA Network, 1988.

"Exposure," Diamonds, CBS, 1988.

Adrian Bouchard, "Among the Philistines," War of the Worlds, syndicated, 1989.

Van Dorn, "South by Southeast," Alfred Hitchcock Presents, USA Network, 1989.

Cantrell, "The Dealbreaker," Counterstrike, CTV, 1990.

Commissioner Geoffrey Osborne, "Two Moons," Bordertown, Family Channel and CanWest Global Television, 1990.

Dr. Fellows, "The Murderer," The Ray Bradbury Theater, USA Network, 1990.

Michael Marloe, "Cinema Verite," Counterstrike, CTV, 1990.

Bill Bowen, "Miracle Worker," Beyond Reality, USA Network, 1991.

Dr. Dawson, "Heart of the Matter," E.N.G., CTV and Lifetime, 1992.

Dr. Mims, "Straightjacket," Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, syndicated, 1993.

Henry Sutton, "But Not Forgotten," Street Legal, CBC, 1993.

Liam O'Neal, "Bad Blood," Forever Knight, CBS and syndicated, 1994.

Voice of Professor Charles F. Xavier/Professor X, "Neogenic Nightmare Chapter 4: The Mutant Agenda," Spider–Man (animated), Fox, 1995.

Voice of Professor Charles F. Xavier/Professor X, "Neogenic Nightmare Chapter 5: Mutants Revenge," Spider–Man (animated), Fox, 1995.

Mickey O'Brian, "Shooting Mickey," F/X: The Series, CTV and syndicated, 1997.

Senior officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, "Perfect Strangers," Due South (also known as Due South: The Series, Direction: Sud, and Tandem de choc), CTV and CBS, 1997.

King Polydectes, "Perseus: The Search for Medusa," Mythic Warriors (animated), CBS, 1998.

Morgan Kenworth, "Bloodlines," Highlander: The Raven, syndicated, 1998.

Dr. Eldrige Hawke, "School's Out," Twice in a Lifetime, PAX TV, 1999.

Dr. Paul Breedlove, "The Shock of the New," Mutant X, syndicated, 2001.

Michael Hamori, "Dr. Tara," Blue Murder, CanWest Global Television, 2001.

Alderman Glickman, "Out with the Old …," Soul Food, Showtime, 2002.

Hightower, "Grave Danger," Earth: Final Conflict (also known as EFC, Gene Roddenberry's "Battleground Earth," Gene Roddenberry's "Earth: Final Conflict," Invasion planete Terre, and Mission Erde: Sie sind unter uns), syndicated, 2002.

Lawyer, "Pandora's Box," Relic Hunter (also known as Relic Hunter—Die Schatzjaegerin and Sydney Fox l'aventuriere), syndicated, 2002.

Elliot Winthrop, "Follow the Money," Street Time, Showtime, 2003.

Martin Wainwright, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Doc, PAX TV, 2003.

Voice of Professor Link, "Head Shrinker Much?," Totally Spies (animated), TeleToon and Cartoon Network, 2005.

Appeared as Willie Anderson, "Sangraal," Veritas: The Quest, ABC.

Television Director; Episodic:

The Campbells, Canadian television, Family Channel, and syndicated, 1988.

Film Appearances:

Dr. Svarich, Who Has Seen the Wind?, Souris River/Cinema World, 1977.

Narrator, Boomer (short documentary), National Film Board of Canada, 1978.

Gary "The Blacksmith" Black, Fast Company, Admit One Presentations, 1979.

Narrator, Never a Dull Moment (documentary), National Film Board of Canada, 1979.

Narrator, Pamiat, Memory of Ancestors (short documentary), National Film Board of Canada, 1981.

Voice of bartender, "Taarna," Heavy Metal (animated), Columbia, 1981.

Squid Hayman, Bayo, Bayo Film Productions, 1985.

William Lyon Mackenzie, Samuel Lount, Utopia Pictures, 1985.

Discussions in Bioethics: Family Tree (documentary; also known as La bioethique; une question de choix—Me steriliser? … Jamais!), 1985.

The Sight, 1985.

Narrator, Juju Music (documentary), Jacques Holender Films, 1987.

Narrator, Where Is Here? (documentary), National Film Board of Canada, 1987.

Farmers Helping Farmers (short film), National Film Board of Canada, 1987.

Wednesday's Children: Robert (short film; also known as Les enfants du desarroi: Robert), National Film Board of Canada, 1987.

A Wake for Milton, National Film Board of Canada, 1988.

Eli Seibel, Millennium, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1989.

Narrator, Children for Hire (documentary), National Film Board of Canada, 1994.

Francis Redmund, Witchboard III: The Possession (also known as Witchboard: The Possession), Telescene Film Group Productions/Vista Street Entertainment, 1995.

Narrator, The Barrens Quest (documentary), National Film Board of Canada/Bar Harbour Films, 1997.

J. J. Gallagher, Sleeping Dogs Lie (also known as Le mystere d'Ambrose Small), 1998.

Voice of Mentor, The Silver Surfer (animated), Fox Family Films, 1999.

Grey Owl, Allied Filmmakers/Largo Entertainment, 1999.

Pediatric doctor, Bless the Child (also known as Die Prophezeiung), Paramount, 2000.

Caiaphas, The Gospel of John, ThinkFilm, 2003.

Frederick Radcliffe, Raymond Radcliffe (short film), Honey Wagon Films, 2004.

Some sources cite an appearance in In the Falls.

Film Director:

Wednesday's Children: Robert (short film; also known as Les enfants du desarroi: Robert), National Film Board of Canada, 1987.

Stage Appearances:

Singer, Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Stratford Festival of Canada, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, 1964.

The Country Wife, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1964.

King Lear, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1964.

Richard II, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1964.

One of Antony's soldiers, Antony and Cleopatra, Festival Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1967.

Pursuivant, Richard III, Festival Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1967.

Twelfth Night, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1976–77.

The Contractor, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1977–78.

Billy Bishop, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Morosco Theatre, then Theatre de Lys (now Lucille Lortel Theatre), both New York City, 1980, later Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1980–81.

A Wake for Milton, 1986, released as a feature film, National Film Board of Canada, 1988.

Appeared as Salieri, Amadeus, Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and in the title role, Richard III, Manitoba Theatre Centre; appeared in productions of the Stratford Festival, 1979; performed at the Scream in High Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1997.