ReCON
Toronto
2017
MAY 2017 \\ TORONTO \\ CANADA
Appearances were subject to change due to unforeseen professional or personal commitments.
ACTORS PANEL
DOUG O'KEEFFE
Biography: Doug O'Keeffe graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Masters in the Art and Science of Coaching. As a coach, Doug has held prestigious positions with the National Women's University Track and Field Champions at the University of Western Ontario, as well as the Head Coach of the Ontario Championship Track and Field Team, the London Western city team. Keeping in line with his course of study, Doug was accepted at USC Berkeley for the Phd program in Philosophy and Sociology of the Sport Institution.
Always active physically as an athlete, Doug secured a spot on the Canadian Bobsled team and represented Canada in two World Cup competitions.
COLIN FOX
He has recently performed with the Gryphon Trio as narrator in "Giants in Music, Friends in Letters – Brahms & Dvorak"
Biography: Aside from a busy acting career spanning 50 years, including Broadway, the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, feature films and television, Colin Fox made his concert debut in 1974 in the title role of Lelio by Berlioz with Seiji Ozawa and the Toronto and Boston Symphonies. He has also appeared on the concert stage in a variety of musical settings including performances with pianists James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton and Anton Kuerti, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, The Penderecki Quartet, baritone Marc Pedrotti, guitarist Simon Wynberg, and more.
Colin has narrated a number of documentaries for the CBC, National Geographic, and Discovery Channel.
He is the recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival, 1966), a Genie Award (1971) for Best Actor, a Juno Award (1994) for Best Children’s Recording for his title role in “Tchaikovsky Discovers America.” He received a Gemini for his villainous voice in the animated series “Atomic Betty.”
which he wrote; with the Toronto Symphony in “Tales of the Netsilik ”by Ray Luedeke and “Into the Labyrinth” with Anagnoson and Kinton. Colin has written and narrated “The Schumann Letters” which was performed with soprano Susan Gilmore Bailey and pianist Michael Kim across Canada and at major festivals to wide acclaim.
On television his credits include Dr. Hendricks in “PSI Factor", and in A&E’s “Nero Wolfe” with Tim Hutton and Maury Chaykin as the redoubtable butler, Fritz.
On the big screen he has appeared with Sylvester Stallone and Claire Bloom in Universal’s “Daylight”; Chris Farley and David Spade in “Tommy Boy”; and with Chris Rock in “Down to Earth”, and recently in “One Week.”
In La Femme NIkita, Colin appeared as Gelman. Gelman was the creator of a brainwashing treatment referred to as the Gelman Process. The process left those treated, altered, devoid of their emotions, and was ordered by Madeline to be used on Nikita.
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances,
both Lawrence Bayne and Colin Fox were unable to attend the event.
Biography: Lawrence Bayne was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based out of Toronto, he is an artist who has done extensive work in Film, Television, Animation and Voice spanning a 35 year long career.
LAWRENCE BAYNE
Lawrence had an interesting start to his career, appearing in Pink Floyd's first aired video, "Learning to Fly."
Blessed as a talented musician, Lawrence is a Lyricist and Lead Singer with his band, "Simple Damned Device." His diverse talents and experiences have inspired him to work on writing a book of his exploits, as well as a novel.
Currently Lawrence is the signature voice for the History Channel.
For us La Femme Nikita fans, Lawrence Bayne will forever be remembered as "Davenport", the agent who was run down by Michael and gained the nickname "Roadkill" by the fandom!
Doug's credits include acting, directing and writing for both film and television. He has written an as-yet un-produced 15 episode series with Biski Gugushe, that Jamie Paul Rock was on-board with as producer, entitled "Vineyard Vice."
In addition to film and television writing, Doug has also penned an e-book titled "The Golf Warrior."
Doug enjoys travelling and has spent time in China, Japan, South Africa, Europe, and Hawaii.