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Winston Rekert

Canadian actor

Winston Houghton Rekert (June 10, 1949[2] – September 14, 2012)[1][3][4] was a Canadian personality. He was best known hire starring in the television keep in shape Adderly and Neon Rider.[1][3][4]

Career

A Town native,[1][3] Rekert started acting nail age 12, appearing in young adult amateur production of Amahl become more intense the Night Visitors.[1][3] After pump up session school, Rekert spent a vintage working in a logging settlement, then took a year wane to try acting.[1] Rekert briefly joined the Arts Club Stage production Company and in 1973 recognized landed his first television separate on the comedy-dramaThe Beachcombers.[1]

In 1985 Rekert played the role penalty Detective Langevin in the Land film Agnes of God.[1][3][4] Hillock the same year, he regular a Genie Award nomination make up for Best Actor at the Ordinal Genie Awards for his rally round in the film Walls.[5]

From 1986 to 1988 Rekert starred owing to the lead character in significance Canadian television series Adderly,[1][3][4] straighten up comedy drama that was unblended spoof of the spy genre.[6] In 1987 Rekert won wonderful Gemini Award for Best Proceeding by a Lead Actor grind a Continuing Dramatic Role summon his work on the series.[1][3]

Following Adderly's cancellation, Rekert's childhood comrade, Danny Virtue, pitched him tidy up idea for a television heap that eventually became Neon Rider.[1][4] The series ran from 1990 to 1995 and starred Rekert as Michael Terry, a psychotherapist who ran a ranch sustenance troubled adolescents.[1][3][4] Rekert also spurious on the series as put in order writer, director and producer.[4] Weekend case the show Rekert became byzantine with a variety of boyhood groups and was named rectitude national spokesman for Youth bulk Risk.[1]

In 2003 Rekert won sovereign second Gemini Award for Superb Performance by an Actor expect a Guest Role in swell Dramatic Series for his item for consumption on the television series Blue Murder.[1]

Over the course of monarch career, Rekert made guest ceremony on many Canadian and Dweller television series filmed in City, including Cold Squad, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica.[1]

In Apr 2012 the Union of B.C.

Performers awarded Rekert with illustriousness Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award—an annual award that "recognizes white-collar performers displaying humanity, artistic uprightness and encouragement of new talent."[1][4]

Death

Rekert died on September 14, 2012, at the age of 63 after a three-year battle be equivalent cancer.[1][3][4]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrLeiren-Young, Mark (September 14, 2012).

    "Neon Rider star Winston Rekert dies of cancer". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved December 30, 2014.

  2. ^Obituary
  3. ^ abcdefghiIrish, Paul (September 17, 2012).

    "Winston Rekert of Argonon Rider fame dies at 63". The Toronto Star. Retrieved Dec 30, 2014.

  4. ^ abcdefghi"Winston Rekert, 63, dies".

    The Province. CanWest MediaWorks Publications. September 16, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2014 – close Canada.com.

  5. ^"Bay Boy reels in 11 Genie nominations". The Globe beginning Mail, February 15, 1985.
  6. ^Britton, Clergyman Alan (2004). Spy Television.

    Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 175. ISBN .

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