Gil Bellows
Gil Bellows | |
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.jpg) Bellows in 2012 | |
| Born | June 28, 1967 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Thomas in the Fox television series Ally McBeal (1997–2002), and CIA agent Matt Callan in the CBS television series The Agency (2001–2003). In 2016–2017, he was a regular cast member in the USA Network series Eyewitness.
Early life[edit]
Bellows was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended Magee Secondary School with fellow future actor Carrie-Anne Moss. After graduation, he pursued a career in acting, studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California.
Career[edit]
Bellows is known for his first motion-picture role as Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Also in 1994, he played the lead role Watty Watt in Love and a .45 with Renée Zellweger, Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal, and CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series The Agency. Bellows also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep as Detective Derm, opposite star Jeff Daniels. He appeared in The Weather Man as a perverted rehabilitation counsellor. He was in the films Black Day Blue Night, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, as Will, and Un amour de sorcière, a French film, as Michael Firth (1997). He has appeared on the Hallmark Channel original film Final Days of Planet Earth and the Canadian television series Terminal City.
In 2007, he completed filming for Kill Kill Faster Faster, which is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Joel Rose.
Bellows also played a State Department Officer in 24: Redemption, a television film prequel to the seventh season of 24.[1]
He starred in the Super Channel science-fiction adventure thriller film Infected.
Bellows has also appeared as Maxwell Lord on Smallville in the Season 9 episodes "Charade" and "Hostage".[2][3]
In 2010, Bellows had a recurring role in FlashForward as Timothy, a window-washer who becomes a born-again Christian and evangelist after a near-death experience.[4] Bellows also co-starred in the movie Unthinkable that same year.
He co-starred with Steve Austin and Eric Roberts in the 2010 action film Hunt to Kill, and in 2011 co-starred with Macha Grenon and Julia Stone in The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom. He starred in the 2012 feature film Fury. In some second-season episodes (2012) of Boss he appeared as a casino investor.
In 2014, Bellows starred with Tricia Helfer in the Syfy miniseries Ascension, a retro space opera / murder mystery about the 600-person crew of the USS Ascension, an Orion-class nuclear pulse propulsion spaceship, on its secret 100-year journey to Proxima Centauri, having been launched in 1963 by President Kennedy. Bellows played Harris Enzmann, the son of the founder of the Ascension project, who oversees its progress from a secret facility on Earth.
On October 16, 2016, Bellows debuted as a cast regular in USA Network's new, 10-episode, straight-to-series police drama, Eyewitness. He plays Gabe Caldwell, a veterinarian and the husband of Sheriff Helen Torrance (series lead Julianne Nicholson). The sheriff is trying to solve what appears to be a random triple-murder in a turkey farmer's home. But as the series begins to unfold, she is unaware that the farmer's teenage son and his male friend—the latter of whom also happens to be Gabe and Helen's foster son; at first, unbeknownst to either parent—had been secretly exploring new feelings for each other just prior to the carnage, witnessed the murders. The killer is still at large, is someone she wouldn't normally suspect, and is determined to permanently silence the witness he saw hiding. Meanwhile, off the clock and at home, Caldwell and Torrance seem to enjoy a genuinely happy marriage. The series, although set in mainly in the Hudson River Valley, was actually filmed in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.
In 2019, Bellows guest-starred as the unnamed maternity doctor in season 3, episode 9, of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale.
Personal life[edit]
Gil Bellows is married to American actress Rya Kihlstedt and the couple have two children.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1989 | The First Season | Ronne | |
| 1994 | Love and a .45 | Watty Watts | |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Tommy Williams | ||
| 1995 | Miami Rhapsody | Matt | |
| Black Day Blue Night | Hitchhiker Dodge | ||
| 1996 | The Substance of Fire | Val Chenard | |
| 1997 | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Will | |
| Witch Way Love | Michael | ||
| White Lies | Punk Guy | ||
| Dinner at Fred's | Richard | ||
| 1998 | The Assistant | Frank Alpine | |
| Judas Kiss | Lizard Browning | ||
| 1999 | Say You'll Be Mine | Mason | |
| 2000 | Beautiful Joe | Elton | |
| Chasing Sleep | Detective Derm | ||
| 2003 | Fast Food High | Dale White | |
| Blind Horizon | Dr. Theodore Conway | ||
| 2004 | EMR | Paramedic | |
| How's My Driving | Jimmy | Short film | |
| Childstar | Isaac | ||
| Pursued | Ben Keats | ||
| 2005 | Keep Your Distance | David Dailey | |
| The Weather Man | Don | ||
| 2008 | The Promotion | Mitch | |
| Kill Kill Faster Faster | Joe | ||
| Black Crescent Moon | Sam | ||
| Passchendaele | Royster | ||
| Toronto Stories | Henry | ||
| 2010 | Happenchance | Stan | Short film |
| Unthinkable | Agent Vincent | ||
| A Night for Dying Tigers | Jack | ||
| Hunt to Kill | Banks | ||
| Neighbors | Vern | Short film | |
| 2011 | The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom | Phil | |
| Girl Walks into a Bar | Emmit | ||
| The Maiden Danced to Death | Fred | ||
| 2012 | Fury | Bartender Bill | |
| House at the End of the Street | Weaver | ||
| 2013 | Mad Ship | Archie Cameron | |
| Louis Cyr | Richard Kyle Fox | ||
| Parkland | David Powers | ||
| 3 Days in Havana | Jack Petty | ||
| 2014 | Extraterrestrial | Sheriff Murphy | |
| Leading Lady | Daniel Taylor | ||
| The Calling | Detective Ray Green | ||
| Kill the Messenger | DEA Agent Miller | ||
| 2015 | Girl on the Edge | Jake Green | |
| Weepah Way for Now | John | ||
| Life on the Line | Pok' Chop | ||
| Business Ethics | Zachary Cranston | Short film | |
| 2016 | Dead Draw | Harrison | |
| She Has a Name | Alex | ||
| 2017 | Blood Honey | Marvin Heath | |
| ADDicted | Professor Jeff Mueller | ||
| 2019 | Run This Town | Detective Lowey | |
| Nation's Fire | Josip Aleksander | ||
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Chief Turner | ||
| Business Ethics | Edwin Murk | ||
| Drowning | Frank | ||
| 2020 | Two Deaths of Henry Baker | Henry Baker / Sam Bird | |
| 2021 | Awake | Dr. Katz |
Television[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Law & Order | Howard Metzler | Episode: "The Violence of Summer" |
| 1992 | Flying Blind | Gerard | Episode: "Single White Eurotrash" |
| 1993 | Going to Extremes | Ben | 2 episodes |
| 1995 | Silver Strand | Brian Del Piso | TV movie |
| 1996 | Radiant City | Bert Kramer | TV movie |
| 1997–2002 | Ally McBeal | Billy Thomas | 68 episodes |
| 1998 | The Practice | Episode: "Axe Murderer" | |
| 1999 | Ally | 13 episodes | |
| 2000 | The Courage to Love | Dr. Gerard Gaultier | TV movie |
| 2001 | Night Visions | Keith Miller | Episode: "Dead Air/Renovation" |
| Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature | Miles | TV movie | |
| 2001–2002 | The Agency | Matt Callan | 23 episodes |
| 2002 | Whitewash: The Clarence Bradley Story | Mike De Guerin | TV movie |
| Second String | Dan Heller | TV movie | |
| 2003 | 1st to Die | Chris Raleigh | TV movie |
| The Twilight Zone | Maj. Rob Malone | Episode: "Homecoming" | |
| 2004 | Karen Sisco | Special Agent Donny Pepper | Episode: "Dog Day Sisco" |
| Zeyda and the Hitman | Jeff Klein | TV movie | |
| Cooking Lessons | Professor Mocha | TV movie | |
| A Bear Named Winnie | Colonel Barret | TV movie | |
| 2005 | Terminal City | Ari Sampson | 10 episodes |
| 2006 | Final Days of Planet Earth | Lloyd Walker | TV movie |
| 2008 | The Cleaner | Mickey Efros | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Infected | Ben Mosher | TV movie | |
| 24: Redemption | Frank Tramell | TV movie | |
| 2010 | Smallville | Maxwell Lord | 2 episodes |
| FlashForward | Timothy | 3 episodes | |
| Goblin | Neil Perkins | TV movie | |
| Criminal Minds | Jeff Joyce | Episode: "JJ" | |
| 2010–2012 | True Justice | Nikoli Putin | 4 episodes |
| 2011 | Sanctuary | Caleb | 2 episodes |
| Trading Christmas | Ray Johnson | TV movie | |
| 2012 | Boss | Vacarro | 2 episodes |
| Vegas | George Grady | 3 episodes | |
| 2013 | Delete | Lt. General Michael Overson | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Lee Berman | Episode: "Kitty" |
| Falling Skies | Nick Phillips | Episode: "Mind Wars" | |
| Bones | Mason Barnes | Episode: "The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round" | |
| Ascension | Harris Enzmann | 3 episodes | |
| 2015–2018 | Patriot | Lawrence Lacroix | 14 episodes |
| 2016 | 11.22.63 | FBI Agent James B. Hosty | 2 episodes |
| Eyewitness | Gabe Caldwell | 10 episodes | |
| 2017 | Between Us | Matt | TV short |
| 2018 | The Detectives | Det. Peter Baker | Episode: "Nine Shots" |
| 2019 | The Handmaid's Tale | Doctor | Episode: "Heroic" |
| Suits | Dan Foley | Episode: "Windmills" | |
| Jett | Evans | 9 episodes | |
| 2020 | Cherish the Day | Therapist | Episode: "Synopsis" |
| The Twilight Zone | Dick Warren | Episode: "You Might Also Like" | |
| Love in the Time of Corona | Paul | 4 episodes | |
| 2021 | American Gods | Bill Sanders | 3 episodes |
| 2022 | Women of the Movement | Gerald Chatham | 4 episodes |
| 2023–2024 | Chucky | Warren Pryce | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Alert: Missing Persons Unit | Inspector Hollis Braun | 6 episodes |
References[edit]
- ^ Nellie Andreeva (May 23, 2008). "'24' prequel adds cast - Eric Lively, Tony Todd, Gil Bellows join the fray". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2008.
- ^ #8
- ^ "Smallville: Maxwell Lord is Cast". IGN. February 22, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- ^ Hale, Mike (March 19, 2010). "'FlashForward' Watch: Simon Says". The New York Times.
External links[edit]
- Gil Bellows at IMDb
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