Colin Fox (actor)
Colin R. Fox ( born November 20, 1938 in Aldershot, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor and spokesperson.
His education completed Fox at the National Theatre School of Canada. His first major roles he has in the late 1960s as Aramis in a television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas ' The Three Musketeers ( alongside Christopher Walken and Kenneth Welsh ) and in a dual role as Jean Paul Desmond and Jacques Eloi Des Mondes in 195 episodes comprehensive CBC television series Strange Paradise. This was followed by roles in so far over 130 film and television productions as main and supporting cast.
In addition to his work for film and television Colin Fox is also an established theater actor. He has appeared on the 1982 Stratford Shakespeare Festival, embodied the Sir Nathaniel in Love 's Labour's Lost, together with the Circle Repertory Company ( 1984) and Craig in Anteroom together with the Playwrights Horizons (1985).
Other roles he had in Tiny Alice ( Crest Theatre, Toronto ) in the Broadway production of Hugh White Mores Pack of Lies, in Henry VI, as well as the narrator in the musical Hansel and Gretel, and Peter and the Wolf.
A wide audience was Fox in the role of Professor Anton Hendricks in the TV series PSI Factor - Chronicles of the Paranormal known. He is also responsible for the presentation of the Swiss Fritz Brenner in the TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001-2002) and their pilot The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000 ) is known.
In 2005, Fox was nominated for a Canadian Gemini TV Awards in the category Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series; he received the nomination for his performance in the episode Buttons the Dresser Puppets Who Kill the television series.
In addition to his work on stage, screen and television, Fox is also a sought-after speaker in Canada and the United States. He reads audio books and radio plays, set to music documentaries ( including for the Discovery Channel ), works for the radio and gives numerous characters from animated series and video games his voice.
Fox lives with his wife Carol in a house built in the 1860s stone farmhouse in Fergus in Toronto. They have a daughter named Sarah.