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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Frances Patricia Beck to Val Bisoglio
Tyrone Benskin Biography (1958-)
Born December 29, 1958, in Bristol, England; immigrated to Canada, 1968.
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Actor
- Birth Details
- December 29, 1958
- Bristol, United Kingdom
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Stage Appearances
- Appeared as Stephen Davenport, Stephen and Mr. Wilde, produced inOttawa, Ontario, Canada, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada; appeared in Fair Liberty's Call,
King John,
Love's Labour's Lost,
Measure for Measure, and Romeo and Juliet, all Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada; also appeared in Phantom of the Opera (nonmusical version), Outremont Theatre. Appeared at other Canadian theatres, including Saidye Bronfman Centre, Centaur Theatre, Neptune Theatre, National Arts Centre, and Theatre Passe Muraille.
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Major Tours
- Mr. M, My Children! My Africa!, Black Theatre Workshop, Canadian cities, 1999-2000
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Film Appearances
- (As Tyrone DeCosta Benskin) Weapon seller, Lune de miel (also known as Honeymoon), Telefilm Canada, 1985 New World Video, 1986
- Detective Maury, Wild Thing, Paramount Home Video, 1987
- Jackson, Criminal Law, Hemdale, 1988
- Train station conductor (some sources cite role as train station doctor),The Kiss, TriStar, 1988
- Cabbie, Enemies: A Love Story, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989
- "Radio," Cargo, Velvet Camera, 1990
- Third broker, Money, 1990
- Video technician, The Amityville Curse, Vidmark Entertainment, 1990
- Store owner, Scanners II: The New Order, Triton Pictures, 1991
- Detective Austin, Canvas (also known as Canvas: The Fine Art ofCrime), Optima Productions, 1992
- (As Tyrone DeCosta Benskin) First officer, Candy the Stripper, 1993
- Cop, Relative Fear (also known as The Child), Republic Pictures, 1994
- Second doctor, The Killing Machine (also known as The Killing Man), A-pix Entertainment, 1994
- Jerome, Soul Survivor (also known as Survivant dans l'ame),Norstar Entertainment, 1995
- Boyd, Marked Man, LIVE Entertainment, 1995
- Mitchum, The Wrong Woman, Republic Pictures, 1995
- Gene Washington, Sci-Fighters, Triboro Entertainment Group, 1996
- Slovitz, Stranger in the House, LIVE Entertainment, 1997
- Special Agent Draper, Full Disclosure (also known as All the Fine Lines), First Look Pictures Releasing, 2001
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Television Appearances
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Series
- Mike Hayes, Riverdale, CBC, beginning in 1997
- Sparky, Live through This, MTV, beginning in 2000
- Cairon, Tales from the Neverending Story (also known as The Neverending Story), [Canada], beginning in 2001
- Voice performer for animated series.
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Miniseries
- Supervisor Meeker, Thanks of a Grateful Nation (also known as The Gulf War), Showtime, 1998
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Movies
- Second police officer, The Phone Call, 1989
- Juan, The Final Heist (also known as L'etrange rancon), 1991
- Dr. Brimell, TekWar: TekLords, syndicated, 1994
- Dr. Henry Balmer, My Breast, Lifetime, 1994
- Curtis, Convict Cowboy, Showtime, 1995
- Dr. Nasser, Cagney & Lacey: The View through the Glass Ceiling, CBS, 1995
- Stevenson, Spenser: A Savage Place, Lifetime, 1995
- Dr. Carpenter, A Strange Affair (also known as A Husband, a Wife, and a Lover), CBS, 1996
- Noland James, We the Jury, USA Network, 1996
- Colin Ferguson, The Long Island Incident, NBC, 1998
- Donovan, Naked City: Justice with a Bullet, Showtime, 1998
- Haywood Burns, The Killing Yard, Showtime, 2001
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Episodic
- Jonah, "The Fire Inside," Forever Knight, syndicated, 1994
- Mr. Shawl, "Hawk and a Handsaw," Due South, CBS, 1995
- Jack Palmer, "The Tale of the Night Shift," Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Nickelodeon, 1996
- Jeff Storey, "Easy Money," Due South, syndicated, 1998
- Witch doctor, "Voodoo Child," Big Wolf on Campus, Fox Family Channel, 2000
- Coach Hadrass, "No Trouble Atoll," Radio Active, Fox, 2001
- Also appeared in episodes of Earth: Final Conflict (also known asEFC,
Gene Roddenberry's Battleground Earth,
Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, and Mission Erde: Sie sind unter uns), syndicated; and F/X: The Series, syndicated.
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Other
- Hadley, Johnny & Clyde, 1995
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Radio Appearances
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Specials
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The Trojan Women, BBC-3, 1998
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Episodic
- Poetry reader, Between the Covers (multiple episodes), CBC, 2000
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RECORDINGS
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Video Games
- Voice, Jagged Alliance, Sir-tech Software, 1994
- Voice, Jagged Alliance 2, Talonsoft, 1999
- Voice, Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business, Interplay, 2000
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