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 TeenagerMalarek as Fred MalarekJacknife as Corridor StudentStreet Legal as Frank TraversUrban Angel as Paul-LawyerThe Reckoning as Young WaiterTo Catch a Killer as BraggAlive as Carlitos PáezKilling Zoe as RicardoDead Beat as KitThe New Age as MishaBlah, Blah, Blah... Fallen Angels as PaulHellraiser: Bloodline as Phillip L'Merchant / John Merchant / Dr. Paul MerchantCurdled as EduardoHit Me as Del TowbridgeStarstruck as MannyC-16: FBI as Joshua Reese / Timothy MannBonanno: A Godfather's Story as Joseph Bonanno Island of the Dead as Tony MatosExploding Oedipus as HilbertShot in the Face as JerryCollateral Damage as Brandt's AideLooking for Jimmy as PumaHoles as ProsecutorJericho Mansions as Eugene O'DonnellTimeline as ITC TechMob Princess as VladimirDa Vinci's Inquest as Sgt. ShawBaby for Sale as Gabor SzaboBreak a Leg as Other Actor at BarAmnesia: The James Brighton Enigma as Carl HoneycuttG-Spot as Pedro Davidd / StalkerOne Dead Indian as Kenneth DeaneVeiled Truth: What Comes Around as JakeIndian Summer: The Oka Crisis as John ParisellaBabylon 5: The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark as Simon BurkeSi j'etais Toi as Daniel HarpinThe Quality of Life as Earl WaverlyMothers & Daughters as Dinner Party Guest BruceSupernatural as PaulRiverworld as Francisco PizarroGuido Superstar: The Rise of Guido as Officer GinobleDoomsday Prophecy as GarciaHamlet as HamletBehind the Candelabra as CarlucciBrick Mansions as Mayor19-2 as Commander GendronCardinal as Ray NorthwindThe Porter as DingerThe G as Rivera