Charles "Chuck" Shamata (born 1942) is a Canadian actor.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Toronto, he worked at Honest Ed's,"Shamata's riding out acting's ups and downs". ''

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'', October 12, 1974. and studied acting at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Career

Shamata had stage roles and bit parts in film and television, before his breakthrough role in the 1969 television film '' Dulcima'', as the love interest of Jackie Burroughs' title character. His later roles included the films '' Between Friends'' (1973), ''

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'' (1976), ''

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'' (1977), '' Power Play'' (1978), ''

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'' (1978), ''

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'' (1979) and '' Running'' (1979), and guest appearances in the television series '' The Mod Squad'', '' Police Surgeon'', '' Baretta'' and '' The Littlest Hobo''. In 1980 he appeared alongside Earl Pennington and

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in ''The Mounties'', Stuart Gillard's pilot for a proposed comedy series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but the show was not picked up to series. In 1981 he played the lead role in ''

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'', an episode of the

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anthology series '' For the Record'' which was the first LGBT-themed television film ever to air in Canada. He won the award for Best Actor in a Non-Feature at the Bijou Awards for his performance."CBC, NFB sweep new Bijou Awards". ''

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'', October 29, 1981. Through the 1980s, he continued to appear in films such as '' The Devil and Max Devlin'' (1981), '' The Terry Fox Story'' (1983), '' Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star'' (1986), '' Nowhere to Hide'' (1987), ''

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'' (1987) and ''

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'' (1988), and in television series such as '' Seeing Things'', ''

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'', '' Sylvanian Families'', '' Katts and Dog'', '' Street Legal'' and '' Night Heat''. In the 1990s, he appeared in films such as ''

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'' (1990), '' Death Wish V: The Face of Death'' (1994) and '' Virus'' (1996), and on television in '' Bordertown'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Traders'' and '' Wind at My Back''. In 2005, Shamata appeared as Det. Henry Messina in the short-lived Ving Rhames revival of '' Kojak''. His most recent roles have included a regular voice role as Uncle Cheech in '' Fugget About It'', the films '' The Day After Tomorrow'' (2004), ''

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'' (2005), '' The Sentinel'' (2006), '' Flash of Genius'' (2008), ''

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'' (2008), '' Still Mine'' (2012), ''

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'' (2014) and '' Miss Sloane'' (2016), and guest appearances in the television series '' Cracked'', '' Beauty and the Beast'' and '' The Art of More''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shamata, Chuck 1942 births Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Canadian male voice actors Canadian male stage actors Male actors from Toronto Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian people of Lebanese descent Living people Canadian Screen Award winners