Geoffrey Bowes
Geoffrey Bowes is a Canadian actor.[1] He is most noted for his performance in the 1979 film Something's Rotten, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980.[2]
His other roles have included the films Fish Hawk, Middle Age Crazy, War Brides,[3] Jewel, Dirty Pictures and Say Nothing, supporting or guest appearances in the television series Street Legal, F/X: The Series, Wind at My Back, Due South, Degrassi: The Next Generation and This Is Wonderland, voice roles in Babar and The Neverending Story, and stage roles in productions of Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter,[4] Erika Ritter's Automatic Pilot,[5] David Fennario's Toronto,[6] George F. Walker's Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline,[1] and Brian Drader's The Norbals.[7] He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981, as Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play, for his performance in Automatic Pilot.[8]
Now semi-retired from acting, he launched his own home renovation company in 2014.[1] In 2018, he published Open Up the Wall, a memoir of his work as a contractor.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof, "Bowes, Geoffrey". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.
- ^ "War Brides ties poignant dramatic knot". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 1980.
- ^ Bryan Johnson, "Prayer flawed by phony accents". The Globe and Mail, May 3, 1978.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "This Pilot deserves automatic success". The Globe and Mail, January 18, 1980.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Fennario's Toronto a facile dart game". The Globe and Mail, February 3, 1978.
- ^ Kate Taylor, "Slight comedy feels like TV sitcom: Only its strong cast saves this new play about a dysfunctional family Christmas"]. The Globe and Mail, November 14, 1998.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Dora Mavor Moore Awards suffer from stage fright". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1981.
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