Born on 3 April 1937, Dane is most popular for his job as Lt. Preston in Bride of Chucky.
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The 84-year-old entertainer was a Genie Award chosen one for Best Supporting Actor at the first Genie Awards in 1980 for the film Running, and an Earle Gray Award candidate at the 1981 ACTRA Awards for the TV film A Question of the Sixth.
Born the most youthful of six children in Masson, Que., presently part of Gatineau, his performing profession came to fruition on the little screen.
His earliest parts were on “R.C.M.P.,” a 1959 CBC dramatization about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the 1960s family series “The Forest Rangers.”
In the long run, he started working in Hollywood with visitor featuring jobs on the 1960s network TV series “Mission: Impossible,” “The Mod Squad” and “The F.B.I.” – in each of the three cases playing various characters on various seasons, a typical practice at that point.
A featuring job in Cronenberg’s 1981 faction hit “Scanners” as Braedon Keller, head of safety at weaponry firm ConSec, sent Dane’s vocation higher than ever.
For the remainder of the ten years, he turned up in a variety of Canadian films of the assessment cover period, including individually slasher “Cheerful Birthday to Me,” rodent invasion spine chiller “Of Unknown Origin” and beast truck assault retribution story “Moving Vengeance.”
He additionally worked behind the camera, co-composing and coordinating the 1984 dramatization “Brilliant Bodies,” a Toronto-shot film that rotates around the dancercise trend of the time.
By the 1990s, Dane was showing up in repeating parts on “Road Legal” as Judge Appleby, “The Red Green Show,” and “Eccentric as Folk” as the dad of one of the primary characters.
In a self-composed tribute, Dane credited his kindred Canadian entertainers for pioneering trails outside the country that he rode in his own vocation.
“They worked everything out such that a lot simpler for us novices,” he composed.
