 | Information Pleaseby J'lyn Nye |
Question: I watched The Beachcombers for a number of years. I'm certain that I saw Bruce Greenwood as a guest actor on one of those shows, but can't recall any details except that I think it was somewhere between 1979 and 1984. Can you confirm this?
Jan Lowry, Sherwood Park
Answer: Yes, we can. Greenwood was born in Noranda, Que., spent the early part of his life in the U.S. and moved with his family to British Columbia when he was 11. He was bitten by the acting bug while a student at the University of British Columbia and appeared in a few movies and TV programs that were filming in the Vancouver area during those years. This included The Beachcombers, which had started production just north of the city in 1972. We don't have the exact date of his appearance, but do know it was sometime between 1979 and 1983. Of course, Greenwood went on to much bigger and better things, such as a starring role in the medical series St. Elsewhere from 1986-88 and a season on Knot's Landing in the early '90s. He also appeared in some pretty wonderful films -- including the award-winning Atom Egoyan movie The Sweet Hereafter, as the nasty husband in Double Jeopardy (1999), and as president John F. Kennedy in the 2000 drama Thirteen Days. Greenwood has (count 'em!) four movies due out this year: Swept Away, with Jennifer Aniston and Madonna, The Core, with Hilary Swank, one called Below and another Egoyan film, Ararat, also starring Brent Carver and Christopher Plummer.
