Wayne Robson
Biography
Wayne Robson (born July 18, 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian television, film and stage actor who is best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, a thief on The Red Green Show, and the character Beano Callahan in the Sandra Bullock and Denis Leary comedy, Two If by Sea . Mr. Robson began his acting career in Vancouver, acting on stage. In the 1970's he migrated to Toronto, Ontario Canada, where he continued his stage acting career, and acted in Canadian television commercials. After receiving several small character roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Popeye (1980), Mr. Robson got his film acting break in the 1984 film The Grey Fox, starring alongside American actor Richard Farnsworth in the role of Shorty, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor. Wayne also voiced Bloom in the cartoon of Pippi Longstocking. Mr. Robson continued his film career playing minor characters in such films as Finders Keepers (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Parents (1989) and Dolores Claiborne (1995). Besides his role as Mike Hamar on the popular Red Green Show, one of Mr. Robson's more memorable roles was as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones in the TV movie Harlan County War (2000). Mr. Robson has been nominated and/or won several Canadian television Gemini Awards. Mr. Robson also played many Canadian television roles in such TV series/miniseries as The Good Germany, Puppets Who Kill, Franklin, Relic Hunter and Lexx.
Interstate 60
Tolbert (Deep Stomach)
Parents
Lab Attendant
Babar: King of the Elephants
Marabou / Sales Manager (voice)
The Grey Fox
Shorty Dunn
Cool Money
Doc
Red Green's Duct Tape Forever
Mike Hamar
Harlan County War
Tug Jones
Mania: The Intruder
Steve Harold (segment "See No Evil")
Dark Horse
Elliot
Justice on Wheels: The Diana Kilmury Story
Pete
Fairfield Road - Straße ins Glück
Pete Kittredge
Survival of the Dead
Tawdry
The Timekeeper
Lomacki
The Incredible Hulk
Boat Captain
Bridal Fever
Mr. Nelson
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Old Man
Stuck
Mr. Binckley
Candles on Bay Street
Brad
Cool Money
Doc
Redwall - Friends and Foes (Vol. 2)
Methuselah (unknown episodes)
Welcome To Mooseport
Morris Gutman
Cold Creek Manor
Stan Holland
Wrong Turn
Old Man
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids
Mr. Mantis (voice)
Charms for the Easy Life
Doctor
Interstate 60
Tolbert (Deep Stomach)
Red Green's Duct Tape Forever
Mike Hamar
Roughing It
Mr. Ballou
Harlan County War
Tug Jones
Old Methuselah (voice)
Anne the Animated Series, Vol. 1-3
Matthew Cuthbert (unknown episodes)
The Highwayman
Cruickshank
Vendetta
Frank Peeter
Rocky Marciano
Lou Ambers
Babar: King of the Elephants
Marabou / Sales Manager (voice)
The Girl Next Door
Jack Hargrove
Emily of New Moon
Henry Carruthers (1 episode, 1999)
Affliction
Nick Wickham
Cube
Rennes
Justice on Wheels: The Diana Kilmury Story
Pete
Getting Away With Murder
Bartender
The Haunting of Lisa
Simon Falk
Two If by Sea
Beano Callahan
National Lampoon's Senior Trip
Frank Hardin
When the Dark Man Calls
Billy Orr
Dolores Claiborne
Sammy Marchant
Scelte del Cuore
Ed Cady
Sodbusters
Hombre
Benny
Double, Double, Toil & Trouble
Gravedigger
The Diviners
Christie
In the Nick of Time
Melvin
Bingo
Four Eyes, Bingo's Prison Mate
The Rescuers Down Under
Frank
Dark Horse
Elliot
Parents
Lab Attendant
Babar Collection 2: disc 5-8
Additional Voices (13 episodes, 1989)
Buying Time
Rolley
Something About Love
Myles
Housekeeping
Principal
Candy Mountain
Buddy Burke
Dead of Winter
Officer Huntley
I'll Die Loving
Jeter (segment "Cursed with Charisma")
Bullies
Vern
Mania: The Intruder
Steve Harold (segment "See No Evil")
One Magic Christmas
Harry Dickens
Finders Keepers
Zev Tyndale
Mrs. Soffel
Halliday
The Grey Fox
Shorty Dunn
Popeye
Chizzelflint, the Pawnbroker
Die Verschwörung
Mechanic (uncredited)
McCabe & Mrs Miller
Bartender
