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Maury Chaykin, actor (b at New York, NY 27 July 1949). Maury Chaykin studied acting at the State University of New York in Buffalo and today is one of Canada's most respected and versatile character actors.
He founded the avant-garde Swamp Fox Theater Group in Buffalo and in 1970 the troupe appeared uninvited at the Festival of Underground Theatre in Toronto, making a strong impression on its artistic director, Ken Gass. In 1974, when Chaykin was a struggling young actor working off-Broadway, Gass invited him to Toronto to help create Hurray for Johnny Canuck, his stage adaptation of the wartime comic book. Chaykin's performance in the play led to job offers from both sides of the border, and he was invited to perform in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater production of Leave It to Beaver Is Dead with Mandy Patinkin and Dianne Wiest. Since that time Maury Chaykin has blazed a trail across stage, screen and television as a masterful portrayer of eccentric characters full of inner turmoil. He has shown considerable range in his performances, moving from the dangerous American labour boss imported to crush the Canadian Seafarers Union in Donald BRITTAIN's Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks (1985), which earned him a GEMINI Award nomination for best performance by an actor in a dramatic program, to the glazed-eyed cavalry officer who commits suicide near the beginning of Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves (1990), to the sex-obsessed games player in Atom EGOYAN's The Adjuster (1991), perhaps his finest role to date, and the spaced-out rock star composing a symphony for whales in Whale Music (1994), winning the GENIE Award for best actor. Maury Chaykin's other films appearances include Mrs. Soffel (1984), Iron Eagle II (1988; a Genie Award nomination for best supporting actor), Twins (1988), Cold Comfort (1989; a Genie nomination for best actor), Where the Heart Is (1990), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Leaving Normal (1992), Hero (1992), Sommersby (1993), Camilla (1994), Cutthroat Island (1995), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), The Sweet Hereafter (1997; which won the American National Board of Review Award for best acting by an ensemble), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Love and Death on Long Island (1998), Mystery, Alaska (1999), The Art of War (2000), Owning Mahowny (2003), Being Julia (2004), Wilby Wonderful (2004), Where the Truth Lies (2005) and Blindness (2008). His television work includes Riel (1979), the epic CBC made-for-television movie directed by his uncle, George Bloomfield, "Seeing Things," "Emily of New Moon" (for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award for best performance by an actor in a guest role dramatic series), "Due South," "La Femme Nikita" (he won a Gemini Award for best performance by an actor in a guest role in a dramatic series), "The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery" as Wolfe, which led to the A & E series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (2001-03), and "At the Hotel" (which won a second Gemini for best performance by an actor in a guest role in a dramatic series). Maury Chaykin brings an unnerving edge to whatever character he is playing, and has found his niche in Hollywood movies while still doing his best and most demanding work in Canada.
 Hal Banks Maury Chaykin (centre) stars as Hal Banks in the NFB-CBC production, "Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal Banks" directed by Donald Brittain (courtesy National Film Board)
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WYNDHAM WISE
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