Bruce Ramsay


Bruce Ramsay is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.

Career

Ramsay's screen debut was opposite fellow Montrealer Elias Koteas in the film Malarek. Ramsay and Koteas went on to appear in two other films together, Hit Me, and Collateral Damage. Ramsay's first lead in a major motion picture came when he was cast as Carlitos Paez in director Frank Marshall's film Alive, the biographical survival drama based upon Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which detailed the story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed into the Andes mountains.
In 2011 Ramsay made his directorial debut with Hamlet. Ramsay also produced, wrote the adaptation, and starred as Hamlet. Hamlet premiered in competition at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2011.
Ramsay appeared as the jaded house boy Carlucci opposite Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra, directed by Steven Soderbergh, about the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace. Behind the Candelabra marked the second time that Ramsay had worked with Soderbergh. In 1995, Ramsay appeared in The Professional Man, part of The Showtime film noir series Fallen Angels, starring opposite Peter Coyote and Brendan Fraser.
He created, wrote, starred in and produced the 2022 CBC and BET series The Porter, about the railway sleeping car porters who created North America's first Black labour union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Selected filmography

  • First Offender
  • Pin as Teenager
  • Malarek as Fred Malarek
  • Jacknife as Corridor Student
  • Street Legal as Frank Travers
  • Urban Angel as Paul-Lawyer
  • The Reckoning as Young Waiter
  • To Catch a Killer as Bragg
  • Alive as Carlitos Páez
  • Killing Zoe as Ricardo
  • Dead Beat as Kit
  • The New Age as Misha
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  • Fallen Angels as Paul
  • Hellraiser: Bloodline as Phillip L'Merchant / John Merchant / Dr. Paul Merchant
  • Curdled as Eduardo
  • Hit Me as Del Towbridge
  • Starstruck as Manny
  • C-16: FBI as Joshua Reese / Timothy Mann
  • Bonanno: A Godfather's Story as Joseph Bonanno
  • Island of the Dead as Tony Matos
  • Exploding Oedipus as Hilbert
  • Shot in the Face as Jerry
  • Collateral Damage as Brandt's Aide
  • Looking for Jimmy as Puma
  • Holes as Prosecutor
  • Jericho Mansions as Eugene O'Donnell
  • Timeline as ITC Tech
  • Mob Princess as Vladimir
  • Da Vinci's Inquest as Sgt. Shaw
  • Baby for Sale as Gabor Szabo
  • Break a Leg as Other Actor at Bar
  • Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma as Carl Honeycutt
  • G-Spot as Pedro Davidd / Stalker
  • One Dead Indian as Kenneth Deane
  • Veiled Truth: What Comes Around as Jake
  • Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis as John Parisella
  • Babylon 5: The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark as Simon Burke
  • Si j'etais Toi as Daniel Harpin
  • The Quality of Life as Earl Waverly
  • Mothers & Daughters as Dinner Party Guest Bruce
  • Supernatural as Paul
  • Riverworld as Francisco Pizarro
  • Guido Superstar: The Rise of Guido as Officer Ginoble
  • Doomsday Prophecy as Garcia
  • Hamlet as Hamlet
  • Behind the Candelabra as Carlucci
  • Brick Mansions as Mayor
  • 19-2 as Commander Gendron
  • Cardinal as Ray Northwind
  • The Porter as Dinger
  • The G as Rivera