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
  1. Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof, "Bowes, Geoffrey". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
  2. "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 8, 1980.
  3. "War Brides ties poignant dramatic knot". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 1980.
  4. Bryan Johnson, "Prayer flawed by phony accents". The Globe and Mail, May 3, 1978.
  5. Ray Conlogue, "This Pilot deserves automatic success". The Globe and Mail, January 18, 1980.
  6. Ray Conlogue, "Fennario's Toronto a facile dart game". The Globe and Mail, February 3, 1978.
  7. 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.
  8. Ray Conlogue, "Dora Mavor Moore Awards suffer from stage fright". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1981.


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