Bruce Ramsay

Bruce Ramsay (born December 31, 1966) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Career
Ramsay's screen debut was opposite fellow Montrealer Elias Koteas in the film Malarek (1988). Ramsay and Koteas went on to appear in two other films together, Hit Me (1996), and Collateral Damage (2002). Ramsay's first lead in a major motion picture came when he was cast as Carlitos Paez in director Frank Marshall's film Alive (1993), the biographical survival drama based upon Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which detailed the story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed into the Andes mountains.
In 2011 Ramsay made his directorial debut with Hamlet (2011). Ramsay also produced, wrote the adaptation, and starred as Hamlet. Hamlet premiered in competition at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2011.
Ramsay appeared as the jaded house boy Carlucci opposite Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra (2013), directed by Steven Soderbergh, about the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace. Behind the Candelabra marked the second time that Ramsay had worked with Soderbergh. In 1995, Ramsay appeared in The Professional Man, part of The Showtime film noir series Fallen Angels, starring opposite Peter Coyote and Brendan Fraser.
He created, wrote, starred in and produced the 2022 CBC and BET series The Porter, about the railway sleeping car porters who created North America's first Black labour union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Selected filmography
First Offender (1987, TV Movie)
Pin (1988) as Teenager
Malarek (1988) as Fred Malarek
Jacknife (1989) as Corridor Student
Street Legal (1991, TV Series) as Frank Travers
Urban Angel (1991, TV Series) as Paul-Lawyer
The Reckoning (1991, TV Movie) as Young Waiter
To Catch a Killer (1992, TV Mini-Series) as Bragg
Alive (1993) as Carlitos Páez
Killing Zoe (1993) as Ricardo
Dead Beat (1994) as Kit
The New Age (1994) as Misha
Blah, Blah, Blah... (1995, Short)
Fallen Angels (1995, TV Series) as Paul
Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) as Phillip L'Merchant / John Merchant / Dr. Paul Merchant
Curdled (1996) as Eduardo
Hit Me (1996) as Del Towbridge
Starstruck (1998) as Manny
C-16: FBI (1998, TV Series) as Joshua Reese / Timothy Mann
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999, TV Movie) as Joseph Bonanno (Ages 17–27)
Island of the Dead (2000) as Tony Matos
Exploding Oedipus (2001) as Hilbert
Shot in the Face (2001) as Jerry
Collateral Damage (2002) as Brandt's Aide
Looking for Jimmy (2002) as Puma
Holes (2003) as Prosecutor
Jericho Mansions (2003) as Eugene O'Donnell
Timeline (2003) as ITC Tech
Mob Princess (2003, TV Movie) as Vladimir
Da Vinci's Inquest (2003, TV Series) as Sgt. Shaw
Baby for Sale (2004, TV Movie) as Gabor Szabo
Break a Leg (2005) as Other Actor at Bar
Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma (2005) as Carl Honeycutt
G-Spot (2005–2009, TV Series) as Pedro Davidd / Stalker
One Dead Indian (2006, TV Movie) as Kenneth Deane
Veiled Truth: What Comes Around (2006, TV Movie) as Jake
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006, TV Mini-Series) as John Parisella
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark (2007) as Simon Burke
Si j'etais Toi (2007) as Daniel Harpin
The Quality of Life (2008, TV Movie) as Earl Waverly
Mothers & Daughters (2008) as Dinner Party Guest Bruce
Supernatural (2010, TV Series) as Paul
Riverworld (2010, TV Movie) as Francisco Pizarro
Guido Superstar: The Rise of Guido (2010) as Officer Ginoble
Doomsday Prophecy (2011, TV Movie) as Garcia
Hamlet (2011) as Hamlet
Behind the Candelabra (2013) as Carlucci
Brick Mansions (2014) as Mayor
19-2 (2014-2017, TV Series) as Commander Gendron
Cardinal (2017, TV Series) as Ray Northwind
The Porter (2022, TV Drama Series) as Dinger
References
External links
1966 births
Living people
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male stage actors
Male actors from Montreal