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John Colicos
b. December 10, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario.
d. March 6, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario
John Colicos
Image: Copyright Associated Press

John Colicos was equally at home on stage, film or television. Named Best Actor at the 1951 Dominion Drama Festival, at age 22 he became the youngest actor to play King Lear at London's Old Vic. He joined Canada's Stratford Festival, where he won critical acclaim playing the lead in their 1964 production of King Lear. He also earned strong reviews for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the London and New York productions of the play The Soldiers. His first major screen success was in a supporting role to Richard Burton in the 1970 film Anne of a Thousand Days, which co-starred Geneviève Bujold. His best known TV role was as the treacherous Count Baltar in Battlestar Galactica starring Lorne Greene. He also played Mikkos Cassadine in General Hospital and was a guest star on dozens of TV series. He died in Toronto after a series of heart attacks.



Features & TV Movies:
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Forbidden Journey (1950)
Passport to Treason (1955)
The Count of Monte Cristo (TV-1958)

Anne of a Thousand Days (1969)

Red Sky at Morning (1971)
Doctor's Wives (1971)
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Goodbye Raggedy Ann (TV-1971)
The Wrath of God (1972)
Scorpio (1973)
A Matter of Wife...and Death (TV-1975)
The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper (TV-1976)
Drum (1976)
Breaking Point (1976)
King Solomon's Treasure (1977)
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (TV-1978)
The Bastard (TV-1978)
Battlestar Galactica (TV-1978)
The Paradise Connection (TV-1979)

Galactic III: The Conquest of Earth (TV-1980)
The Changeling (1980)
Phobia (1980)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
The Last Season (1986)
Nowhere to Hide (1987)
Shadow Dancing (1988)
Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell (TV-1989)

In Defense of a Married Man (TV-1990)
No Contest (1994)
Windsor Protocol (TV-1996)
Thunder Point (TV1996)
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999)


TV Series - Cast:
The Secret Storm (1954)
The National Dream (mini-series, 1974)
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
General Hospital (1981 and 1985)
I'll Take Manhattan (mini-series, 1987)
X-Men (voice,1992)
Mario Puzo's The Last Don (mini-series, 1997)





<Anne of a Thousand Days, movie poster>

This image is scanned from an
original poster in the
Northernstars Collection.

Anne of a Thousand Days
costarred Richard Burton
and Geneviève Bujold.

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