Vlasta Vrana was born to Czech parents in Norway but moved to Canada at the age of four. In addition to his work on-screen, he is also a voice actor working in both animated film and television productions as well as video games. He has also dubbed non-English roles into English for cartoon series and replaced the voice of Father Leclerc in the English language version of the Denys Arcand’s early hit film Jesus of Montreal. Nominated for a Canadian Film Award in 1975 he received the Montreal ACTRA Award of Excellence in 2005 and won the a best actor award from the Trenton, New Jersey Film Festival in 2005.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Downhill (1973, short) Shivers (1975) Rabid (1977)
One Man (1977)
Back Alley Blue (1977, short)
Blackout (1978)
Strangers at the Door (1978, short)
L’homme en colère (1979)
The Spirit Adventure: Night Flight (TV-1979)
Meet the Martins (narrator, 1979, short)
The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty (VR-1990, short) Falling Over Backwards (1990)
Angel Square (1990)
Whispers (1990)
Money (1991)
Scanners II: The New Order (1991)
Deadly Surveillance (TV-1991)
The Final Heist (TV-1991)
The First Circle (TV-1991)
Twin Sisters (VR-1992)
A Cry in the Night (TV-1992)
Flight from Justice (TV-1993)
Bride of Violence 2 (TV-1993)
Dead Men Talk (TV-1994)
Brainscan (1994)
Warriors (1994)
Stalked (1994)
hlander III: The Sorcerer (1994)
The Child (1994)
Hiroshima (TV-1995)
Crosswinds (TV-1995)
Ivana Trump’s For Love Alone (TV-1996)
Midnight in Saint Petersburg (TV-1996)
Hollow Point (1996)
Marked Man (1996)
Mother Night (1996)
Gotti (1996)
Hawk’s Vengeance (VR-1996)
Natural Enemy (VR-1996)
While My Pretty One Sleeps (1997)
Night of the Demons III (VR-1997)
Stranger in the House(1997)
The Peacekeeper (1997)
The Assignment (1997)
Jack Higgins’s the Windsor Protocol (TV-1997)
Kayla (1997)
Glory & Honor (1998)
Thunder Point(voice, TV-1998)
Escape from Wildcat Canyon (1998)
The Ultimate Weapon (1998)
The Girl Next Door (TV-1998)
Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story (TV-1999)
The Collectors (TV-1999)
Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Grey Owl (1999)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (TV-1999)
Running Home (1999)
Revenge of the Land (TV-1999)
Waking the Dead (2000)
Press Run (2000)
Revenge (2000)
Reaper (2000)
Believe (2000)
The Audrey Hepburn Story (TV-2000)
Where the Money Is (2000)
Heavy Metal 2000 (voice, 2000)
The List (voice, 2000)
Cause of Death (2001)
The Warden (TV-2001)
Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (TV-2001)
Varian’s War: The Forgotten Hero (TV-2001)
Dr.Quinn Medicine Woman (TV-2001)
After Amy (TV-2001)
Protection (2001)
29 Mai 1431… Le Matin (2001, short)
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher (TV-2002)
Redeemer (TV-2002)
Just a Walk in the Park (TV-2002)
Obsessed (TV-2002)
The Book of Eve (2002)
Gleason (TV-2002)
Scent of Danger (2002)
Alone We Stand (2002, short)
Levity (2003)
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (TV-2003)
The Human Stain (2003)
Timeline (2003)
The Reagans (TV-2003)
The Perfect Husband (TV-2004)
Bad Apple (TV-2004)
Secret Window (2004)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Wicker Park (2004)
Baby for Sale (TV-2004)
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards (2004)
Manners of Dying (2004)
When Angels Come to Town (TV-2004)
Crimes of Passion (TV-2005)
Spookley the Square Pumpkin (narrator, VR-2005) Black Eyed Dog (2006)
A Life Interrupted (TV-2007)
I Me Wed (TV-2007)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV-2008)
Lava Storm (TV-2008)
The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream (TV-2008)
The Christmas Choir (TV-2008)
24 Hour Rental (TV-2008)
Dead Like Me: Life After Death VR-2009)
Carny (TV-2009)
Ring of Deceit (TV-2009)
The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice (TV-2010)
The Child Prodigy (2010)
Arctic Blast (2010)
Territories (2010)
Who Is Simon Miller (2011)
Secrets from Her Past (TV-2011)
Upside Down (2012)
Red 2 (2013)
Gibraltar (2013)
Gurov and Anna (voice, 2014)
Northpole: Open for Christmas (TV-2015) Race (2016)
The Glass Castle (2017)
The Zone (2017)
A Majestic Christmas (TV-2018)
Spookley and the Christmas Kittens (Narrator, 2019, short)
The Crab: Prelude to Aquarica (voice, 2019, short)
Within These Walls (TV-2020)
Hall (2020)
French Exit (2020)
Swept Up by Christmas (TV-2020)
Sweet as Maple Syrup (TV-2021)
Urban Angel (1991-1992)
The Busy World of Richard Scarry (voice, 1993-1996)
The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo (voice, 1996)
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures (voice, 1997-1999)
Red Brazil (2013, mini-series)
24 Hour Rental (2014)
19-2 (2014-2016)
The Disappearance (2017, mini-series)
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018, mini-series)
TV Series – Guest apearances:
The New Avengers (1977)
The Great Detective (1980)
The Littlest Hobo (1980)
Hey! Bumbo (voice, 1985)
The Hitchhiker (1985)
He Shoots, He Scores (1986)
Friday the 13th (1989, 1990)
Street Legal (1989, 1993)