Brent Stait

Brent Stait
Born (1959-09-09) September 9, 1959 (age 65)
Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Years active1986–present

Brent Stait (born September 9, 1959[1]) is a Canadian actor, best known for his roles as Rev Bem in the science fiction television series Andromeda[2] and Louis Ferretti in Stargate SG-1.[3]

Biography

Stait was born in Snow Lake, Manitoba[1] and grew up in The Pas.[4][5] Though it is commonly said that Stait left Andromeda due to an allergic reaction to the prosthetics his character required, a 2011 interview revealed his departure was motivated by "physical exhaustion" from wearing the full Rev Bem costume.[6]

Stait substituted for the body of Michael Kenmore in his Wraith form in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Allies", though Connor Trinneer continued to provide the voice. Trinneer returned to the full role after this singular episode as shown in "The Kindred (Part 1)".[citation needed]

Stait played DC Comics superhero Doctor Fate in Absolute Justice,[7] a film that takes place inside the events of the ninth season of the Superman television series Smallville,[8] the first live action appearance of the character. In the movie, Fate is allied with fellow members of the Justice Society and comes into conflict (and later alignment) with the Justice League.[8] Brent Stait received very positive reviews for his portrayal.[citation needed]

He is also known for his portrayal of Nigel Ramsey in "The Wrath of Kali", a fourth season episode of Highlander: The Series.[citation needed]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1989 Termini Station Burt
1990 Cadence Psych. Ward M.P. #2
1991 Showdown at Williams Creek Jim Blessing
1992 North of Pittsburgh Mechanic
1994 Tokyo Cowboy Vince
1995 Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog Sartech
1995 Gunfighter's Moon Walt Shannon
1999 Mystery, Alaska Kevin Holt [5]
2001 Touched by a Killer Roger Walker
2003 On the Corner Wade [9]
2004 The Wild Guys Donnie
2009 Driven to Kill Dino
2009 Children of the Gods Major Louis Ferretti
2010 Hard Ride to Hell Bob
2010 The Tortured U.S. Marshall
2010 Hunt to Kill Walt
2010 Tron: Legacy Purple Gaming Program
2011 Final Destination 5 Roy
2011 Hamlet Rosencrantz
2012 Becoming Redwood Border Guard
2013 The Wedding Chapel Major Mel Sommerville
2014 Kid Cannabis RCMP Officer
2014 Sitting on the Edge of Marlene Jack
2014 Down Here S.I. Steve Wiley [10]
2017 Hollow in the Land Lenny [11]
2018 Rabbit Father Day

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1986 Twelfth Night Curio Television film
1987 Married... with Children Neighborhood Watch Member Episode: "But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy"
1987, 1988 Night Heat Carl / Donald Young 2 episodes
1988 Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future John Episode: "The Eden Road"
1988 T. and T. Dave Episode: "Playing with Fire"
1988, 1989 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Jim Sweeney 2 episodes
1989 Knightwatch Tim Episode: "Lost Weekend"
1989 Booker Woody Kincaid Episode: "Booker"
1989, 1990 21 Jump Street Umpire / Tall Man 2 episodes
1989, 1991 Bordertown Halton Hench / Bob Drake
1990 The Campbells Jimmy Burke Episode: "The Shiners"
1990 Broken Badges Fast Eddie Faldo Episode: "Strawberry"
1990 Wiseguy Axel Whitman Episode: "Dead Right"
1991 Monkey House Corporal Episode: "All the King's Horses"
1991 Omen IV: The Awakening Mica Television film
1991 I Still Dream of Jeannie Eddie
1991 Secrets of the Unknown Reverend Fuller Episode: "Reverend Fuller Story"
1991 Le peloton d'exécution Cpl. Bloggs Television film
1992 Blind Man's Bluff Billy Tomans
1992 The Man Upstairs Mort
1992 Call of the Wild François
1992, 1993 The Commish B.B. Davenport / Frank McBride 2 episodes
1992, 1995 Highlander: The Series Colonel Ramsey / Eddie Doyle
1993 Street Justice Scott Episode: "Hello... Again"
1993 Born to Run[12] Raymond Television film
1993 Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica Scott
1993 A Stranger in the Mirror Peter Terriglio
1993, 1996 The X-Files Timothy Mayhew / Corporal Taylor 3 episodes
1994 Cobra Bridges Episode: "Death Dive"
1994 Green Dolphin Beat Jackson Television film
1994 A Christmas Romance O.T. Betsill
1995 Children of the Dust Ballenger 2 episodes
1995 Hawkeye Johnson Episode: "Hester"
1995 Broken Trust Evan Soika Television film
1995 The Marshal Officer Harris / Fitch 2 episodes
1995 Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie Larry Devore Television film
1996 In the Lake of the Woods Richard Thinbill
1996 The Limbic Region Sheriff
1996 Titanic Irish Bunkmate 2 episodes
1996 For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down Gary Percy Rils Television film[13][4]
1996–1999 The Sentinel McBride / Miller 3 episodes
1997 Poltergeist: The Legacy John Wesley Richter Episode: "Finding Richter"
1997 Two Jimmy Episode: "Chain Gang"
1997 Hostile Force Wendel Pone Television film
1997 Intensity[4] Jim Woltz
1997 Five Desperate Hours[14] Danbury
1997 F/X: The Series Brecht Episode: "High Roller"
1997 Nights Below Station Street Vye Television film[15]
1997, 1998 Stargate SG-1 Major Louis Ferretti 2 episodes
1998 Viper Simon LeShane Episode: "Hot Potato"
1998 Due South Vic Hester 2 episodes
1998 Welcome to Paradox Vincent Cloak Episode: "Research Alpha"
1999 Roswell: The Aliens Attack Capt. Phillips Television film
1999 The Wonderful World of Disney Ozone Episode: "H-E Double Hockey Sticks"
1999 The Sheldon Kennedy Story Mel Kennedy Television film
1999 First Wave Dan McGuire Episode: "Prayer for the White Man"
1999 Seven Days Edwin Brucks Episode: "The Collector"
1999, 2000 The Outer Limits Wayne / Vince Baxter 2 episodes
2000 The Virginian Griffin Television film
2000–2004 Andromeda Rev Bem 36 episodes
2002 Mysterious Ways Stan Amado Episode: "Something Fishy"
2002 Taken Sheriff Kerby Episode: "Acid Tests"
2003 Cold Squad John Watts Episode: "Killing Time"
2003 A Crime of Passion Alfred Barker Television film
2004 Meltdown FBI Commander Hall
2004 Battlestar Galactica Mason Episode: "Bastille Day"
2005 The Collector Kommodant Ziereis Episode: "The Historian'
2005 Into the West Royce Episode: "Dreams and Schemes"
2005 The 4400 Frank Venner Episode: "Suffer the Children"
2006 Stargate Atlantis Michael Kenmore Episode: "Allies"
2006 A Job to Kill For Roger Shapiro Television film
2006 Blade: The Series Damek 2 episodes
2006 Masters of Horror John Reddle Episode: "The Damned Thing"
2006–2020 Supernatural Pool Hall Player / Rick / Scotty 3 episodes
2008 Fear Itself Deputy / Guard Toomey Episode: "Family Man"
2008 Sea Beast Ben Television film
2008 Trial by Fire Crawford
2009 The L Word Bob Episode: "Leaving Los Angeles"
2009 Polar Storm Guard Captain Television film
2009 Beyond Sherwood Forest Guy of Gisbourne
2010 Human Target Potomac Electric Manager Episode: "Baptiste"
2010 Smallville Doctor Fate 2 episodes
2010 Stonehenge Apocalypse Major Peatman Television film
2010 Psych Randy Episode: "Viagra Falls"
2010 Shattered SIU #2 Episode: "The Sins of Fathers"
2010 The Cult Luke Television film
2011 Ghost Storm Thomas
2011 Fringe Lieutenant Daniels Episode: "Subject 9"
2011 The Pastor's Wife Scott Bowden, OBP Television film
2011 Sanctuary Finn Noland Episode: "Homecoming"
2013 Motive Uncle Dave Episode: "The One That Got Away"
2014 Arctic Air Brent Hewson Episode: "The Finish Line"
2014 When Calls the Heart Pinkerton Richardson 5 episodes
2015 Killer Photo Vincent Strurup Television film
2015 Once Upon a Time Peddler Episode: "The Dark Swan"
2016 Who Killed My Husband? Cpt. Sam Carter Television film
2016 Legends of Tomorrow Jeb Stillwater Episode: "The Magnificent Eight"
2016 Newlywed and Dead Bob Sloan Television film
2016 Unclaimed Farmer
2018 Hailey Dean Mysteries Rob Episode: "2 + 2 = Murder"
2018 Van Helsing Dr. Karloff Episode: "Super Unknown"[16]
2018 Memories of Christmas Mr. Henderson Television film
2019 Morning Show Mysteries Jerry Episode: "A Murder in Mind"
2019 Past Never Dies Timothy Past Television film
2020 A Ruby Herring Mystery George Fontana Episode: "Prediction Murder"
2020 Christmas Forgiveness Gary Biros Television film
2020–2022 Snowpiercer Tunnelman Jakes Carter 12 episodes
2021 Resident Alien Roy the Cowboy Episode: "Secrets"
2021 Love Stories in Sunflower Valley Joe Francis Television film
2021 Martha's Vineyard Mysteries Sergeant Webber Episode: "Poisoned in Paradise"
2021 Soccer Mom Madam Big Pharma Television film
2021 Chesapeake Shores Bennet Sullivan Episode: "Happy Trails"
2021 Under Wraps Mr. Kubot Television film
2021 A Christmas Treasure Henry
2022 Big Lies in a Small Town Sheriff Lester
2022 Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas Slide Cunningham

Awards and nominations

For his role of Gary Percy Rils in Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down, Stait was nominated in the 1998 Gemini Awards in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series.[17]

In 2003 Stait won a Leo Award in the category of Best Guest Performance by a Male: Dramatic Series for his role in Cold Squad episode "Killing Time".[18][19]

References

  1. ^ a b Brent Stait's bio at www.northernstars.ca
  2. ^ "Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda" by Ramin Zahed at variety.com
  3. ^ "`Stargate's' Wormholes Might Hook You" by Steve Parks, Newsday (27 July, 1997) Retrieved from ProQuest 279000176
  4. ^ a b c "Typecast as a bottom feeder: Actor's no goon, but he's got the look and the background" by Damian Inwood, The Province (15 Dec, 1996) [Final Edition]. Retrieved from ProQuest 267568230
  5. ^ a b "Actor skates on to silver screen" at www.cbc.ca
  6. ^ "INTERVIEW: Brent Stait". Republibot. July 25, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  7. ^ "The 50 best episodes of Smallville" - "Absolute Justice" by Chancellor Agard, Sydney Bucksbaum & Christian Holub at ew.com
  8. ^ a b "Exclusive: Two of Smallville's Justice Society - TV News at IGN". IGN. October 19, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
  9. ^ "Nibbling at the junkie food chain" by Stephen Cole at www.theglobeandmail.com
  10. ^ "Steely Streets" by Sabrina Furminger at www.vancouverisawesome.com
  11. ^ "‘Hollow in the Land’: Film Review" by Frank Scheck at www.hollywoodreporter.com
  12. ^ Born to Run review by Tony Scott at variety.com
  13. ^ "Hunter and Hunted meet in Manitoba" by Mary Ellen Armstrong at playbackonline.ca
  14. ^ Five Desperate Hours review by Tony Scott at variety.com
  15. ^ "On the set of Nights Below Station Street" by Pam Swedko at playbackonline.ca
  16. ^ "Van Helsing Season 3 Episode 2 Review: Super Unknown" by Dave Vitagliano at www.denofgeek.com
  17. ^ "Special Report on the Geminis: And the nominees are…" at playbackonline.ca
  18. ^ Past Nominees & Winners 2003 at www.leoawards.com
  19. ^ "Bouquets for Vancouver director's film" by Katherine Monk, The Vancouver Sun (12 May, 2003) [Final Edition] Retrieved from ProQuest 242420120